Tim writes: The Line Party itself was a grand success with contest prizes totalling over $1000 from local and national sponsors and the party lured over 75 people into its clutches. The Tolkien Trivia contest triumphed in that not a single person was able to get a perfect score, the caption contest left us all in stitches and the costume contest drew over twice the entries as last year. [More]

NEW YORK – Brad Dourif wasn’t Director Peter Jackson’s first choice to play the villainous Grima Wormtongue in “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.” [More]

The New Line Auctioning site started a very, very, very cool new auction today; the chance to own your own Hobbit hole! For more information on this item or the other items going that are being auctioned as of today (including a 9-foot statue of Gandalf riding Shadowfax, a Two Towers production slate and an Orc Helmet) check out their site: LordoftheRingsAuction.com and follow the little green Lord of the Rings-banner!

The-Trades.com has compiled the top 100 trailers of 2002, and the trailer for The Two Towers has been placed 15th for the year. You can find the complete list here!

Thanks to Alex for that!

Charisa writes: Er, Gollum *lived* in Alaska. Here’s yet another reason to consider Alaska as Middle Earth. This article, “Smeagol’s Ghost,” is in the current issue of Alaska Magazine. [More]

CNN.com wrote up a story about The Two Towers’ succes at the boxoffice lately, the article doesn’t really contain any new information but it always nice to read about how well the movie is doing.. [More]