This morning I saw a tradesmans’ VW twin-cab with the license plates G-O-L-L-U-M driving down Walker Street in North Sydney. I grinned as he drove past and he grinned back and gave me knowing a wave… from one fan to another!

Thanks to Billy Bone for that funny bit of news!

For those of you who live in Holland or Belgium: you can now pre-order the extended dvd with or without the Sideshow statues from everyone’s favorite Dutch community-site TheFellowship.nl. Look for more information on how to do so here!

The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Version are both (The 4DVD-Set and the Set with the Argonath) available for Preorder from the german DVD-Online-Shop DVD-Station Thanks to Markus for the news.

News from Lupo: “The FOTR DVD has broken all records in Spain. It has sold 700.000 DVDs in only two weeks (it appeared on August 28) and Columbia (the Spanish distributor) expects to sell TWO MILLON of them before Christmas! The extended version is expected the same day as the rest of the world, November 12. It will contain both an English and a dubbed Spanish version in the same package. The pack with the Argonaths will cost 60 euros.”

I was waiting for word to come in from Italy, and it did, thanks to Andrea. “Ciao,I’m writing from Italy and I can assure to you that in Italy the Extended DVD is still in production by Medusa.It can’t be on sale!!!” So don’t worry, nobody’s missing anything here.

Just a last reminder to Bay Area fans that we’re having a picnic to celebrate Bilbo’s Birthday at the Marin Headlands on Sunday 22. [More]