alex writes: I got an email from a friend who works for Channel 4 TV informing me that the Big Breakfast UK will be having a LOTR World Premiere special report. Many of the stars will be in the house over the next few weeks as well. The programme is on 7-9am every weekday.

Julie writes: This week in the New York Times online Tolkien Archives – you can hear J.R.R. himself read from The Hobbit and LOTR, and read the first chapters of The Hobbit and FOTR. [More]

Marie writes: Orlando Bloom (Legolas) will be appearing on The Saturday Show, BBC1 on the 8th December. The show runs from 9am-12. You can get tickets to the show by emailing: tsstickets@bbc.co.uk

The Lord of the Rings is the product of a magnificent imagination. Not that you’d have known it from the author’s life, says D J Taylor. [More]

Check out this Windows Media segment from @Discovery Canada, very cool insight into LOTR weapons and more! [More]

For those of us who won’t win the Games Workshop contest, we can also try to outbid each other on eBay…

Just a head’s up, tomorrow afternoon there is going to start an auction on Ebay for the winner and a guest to attend the London premiere and after party (December 10th). Thought you’d like to know. I wish I could afford to bid!