Ringer Spy Rob sends along a dissapointed word that Chicago’s WizardWorld convention was devoid of anything new in the world in LOTR:

Im disappointed to say that there was nothing, and I mean NOTHING, new (concerning LOTR) at WizardWorld Chicago. WETA had a booth set up, and I did get video of the sculptures, but there wasn’t anything on display that we havent already seen on TORN. There were a couple of the life-size cutouts of the movie characters floating around at random booths as well. I managed to watch the FOTR trailer several times on a couple of different monitors, but again, I saw no new footage, either.

As much as I wanted to break something new for our community of “Ringers,” there really wasnt anything to report. I do have my own printed copies of the WETA brochures now, which is nice. =)

Riger Spy Mike R sends in word that Matt Lauer and an Entertainment Weekly writer mentioned LOTR: FOTR this morning.

Unsurprisingly, he answered that [the holiday season] would be “neck and neck” between LOTR and Harry Potter. While he was talking about it, they showed some of the LOTR trailer with out sound.

From: Dr_Roger

Our web-site for The Hobbit (and our two other 2001 plays) is www.atf.ns.ca.

There are six performances remaining before 2 Sept. I urge all LOTR fans in the Maritimes (and further afield) to see this precursor to the trilogy. From the seed of “The Hobbit” grew the great tree of LOTR.

The fan-made production of the Hobbit is still being made in full force. You can check out a matte painting sent in to us from the folks in the production. [More]

Check out all the US and UK listings for all your favorite LOTR stars! [More]