LONDON (Reuters) – The first film in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy will make its world premiere in London in December, the film’s maker says. The reworking of JRR Tolkien’s classic tale of hobbits, dwarves and wizards is expected to be one of the biggest films in years. “The world premiere will be in London on December 10,” a spokeswoman for New Line Cinema said on Thursday. “We can’t say any more at the moment.” [More]

From: Jerm

Attached is a scan of the promo poster of LOTR ccg. Together with the oversized promo-card Decipher gives this wonderfull poster for free at their booth at Essen Game Fair in Germany, you can find Decipher in Hall 6. The size of the poster is 69cmx69cm. [More]

From: Lightwards

I saw an article online in the which included the following:

“The [Fort Worth Film] festival will look forward to the winter release of the first film of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy with a showing of as-yet unseen trailer footage “spooled into a featurette,” a showing of the animated feature The Hobbit and a reading from Lord of the Rings by KRLD’s Charlie Jones (“The biggest Tolkien fan in the English-speaking world,” says Price), which rounds out the Middle-Earth portion of the festival.” [More]

Ringer Spy Noah sends along this secret pic he managed to get out of the endless terrain of the internet. Sadly mind you, the image has been blurred… just for this very reason… sigh… [More]

Ringer Spy Noah sends along this secret pic he managed to get out of the endless terrain of the internet. Sadly mind you, the image has been blurred…just for this very reason…sigh..

AND you thought “Titanic” was big. Get ready for “Lord of the Rings,” the biggest gamble in Hollywood history: a $300 million trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien tales. And that doesn’t count the expected $150 million marketing budget. Though the first film doesn’t open worldwide until Dec. 19 – on an unprecedented number of screens – the marketing push is already well under way. [More]