One is a Harry while the other is merely hairy-footed. But both are the brainchildren of teachers-turned- authors who prefer to go by initials, J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien. [More]

(*****) For the past several years, Peter Jackson and the crew of The Lord of the Rings films have obsessed over the creation of a Middle-earth that both reflects the aesthetics of its creators, yet appears to have spontaneously grown out of ages of heritage. As a filmic goal, this is at best a challenge, but it creates a real difficulty for a composer. [More]

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We’ve been getting reports from various spies around the world regarding just what can be seen on that footage before Harry Potter. [More]

We’ve been getting reports from various spies around the world regarding just what can be seen on that footage before Harry Potter.

Some have been writing in telling us that the three minutes of footage is about Weathertop, I find this odd..why would they focus on a specific scene?

A more likely story is that we will see one of the latest trailers we’ve seen on television.

And yet others are claiming that there is no LOTR footage attached with Potter at all.