From: Diplomatic Ties

Just thought you might like to know that the Japanese distributors of the first film, Nippon Herald, tells us it will not be released here until at least March 2 2002 to coincide with the Japanese school holidays.

Enya Contributes Two Songs to ‘Lord of the Rings’

BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Enya’s latest album, A DAY WITHOUT RAIN, continues to score success in the U.S. for the gifted Irish singer and multi-instrumentalist, as sales this past week move the album to the #7 position with over 98,000 copies sold, returning the album to Billboard’s Top 10. [More]

Thanks to Storm and Benjudah for the tip!

Toy Biz are selling LOTR bow and arrow sets on Amazon.com here and also there’s a great typo here where you can order ‘Arwen with Asfabth’! That’s the Ab Fab silver horse, I guess. Like Asfaloth only with more Bollinger.

Thanks to GJ for that!

Australia’s SMH.com.au talk about how Warner Brothers and New Line are deploying staggering range of wizardly artefacts in their merchandising drive. [More]