Deb writes: Brad Dourif (Wormtounge) was at the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show this past weekend (Jan 18-19) at Beverly Garland’s Holiday Inn in Studio City, CA. signing autographs. [More]


Anyone with pictures of Brad at the event? Send them along!

Overseas tourists are trying to book trips to Middle Earth without realising the destination is fictional, a holiday website has found. Places featured in the Lord of the Rings book trilogy and two films directed by New Zealand’s Peter Jackson, such as Mordor and Rivendell, have become popular holiday search terms on internet search site Yahoo Travel, staff at the site say. [More]

Ringer Spy Lee went to New Zealand recently on what was meant to be a non-LOTR-centred tour…but hey, LOTR stuff was just everywhere, and too good to pass up. Read more on the stunt horses, the Ringmaker, flying ….[More]

Kind of off-topic, but we know plenty of HP fans read this page, and you’ll want to know that the publication date for the next HP book is announced on the publisher’s page at BloomsburyMagazine Thanks to Pantalaimon for the heads-up.

Mentioning the Hobbit Name Generator brought up the Barrow-Downs site, that can give you your name in Elvish, Orcish and Dwarvish as well, according to Melissa. [More]

Seems that everyone who ever worked with Sean Astin can’t find enough good things to say about him. “We tried to put as much of Sean into Sam as we could. Because really, Sean is Sam.” Cynthia sends this nice article on him from the KCS / Orlando Sentinel. [More] Also E!Online Multimedia has a videoclip interview with Sean here – thanks to Nash for the link.