Bored? Nothing to do? Have some time to kill? Why not visit Barliman’s and the Tolkien Fun Section.

Here are the questions for today:
1) “Name the great leader dubbed “The Lame””
2) “unpleemk” (Scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “He looks as if he were spoiling for a race, and not newly come from a long journey.” (Who said this?)

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Ever been over to our Features section? That’s where you can read Tehanu’s and Xoanon’s very individual views on Tolkien, fantasy and film-making.

The latest Tehanu’s Note is up, The Power of Myth Not that we’re trying to stop you getting work done or anything.

Check out this great site ‘Good Taste: the Making of PJ’s Bad Taste’ for some great behind the scenes footage from one of PJ’s other great films.

Hi there,

www.goodtaste.co.nz has copies of a documentary on the making of “Bad Taste”, plus early experimental films available for sale…check it out

Emily Loughnan

The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is estimated to have injected at least $15 million into the Queenstown area alone. [More]


Some very impressive production stills from ANCANAR, the indie film project based in southern California. Seems like all things are going well there πŸ™‚ Click on the images to go to the official site.

Thanks to Tom A for the tip!