From The John Howe website: “Just returned from London where I had the immense treat of seeing the Two Towers in the lo-o-ong DVD version. Naturally, it was an unfinished cut, and while I can’t tell you what’s in it, it’ll certainly be worth waiting those extra months. Of course you must run to the shop in August and refresh your memories with the theatrical release on DVD or video, but you MOST definitely will want the extended version in November. Trust me. Time to stop before I get carried away and say too much.” [More]

iamahobbit writes: For Comic Relief, French and Saunders did a comic spoof of it. There was one Lord of Rings bit where Snape is arguing with Dobby thet he (Dobby) was not in LOTR, it was fairly amusing to hear Dobby as Gollum! It is the third one from the bottom. [More]

gruffy the elf writes: In the most recent issue of the LOTR Fan Club Official Movie Magazine (Issue #7, Feb-March, 2003), there is an interview with Daniel Reeve, a calligrapher for the movies. !!!Possible Spoilers!!! [More]

gruffy the elf writes: In the most recent issue of the LOTR Fan Club Official Movie Magazine (Issue #7, Feb-March, 2003), there is an interview with Daniel Reeve, a (the?) calligrapher for the movies.

When asked about how he went about creating Bilbo’s journal, he talks a bit about training Ian Holm to do his “Concerning Hobbits” bit at the beginning of the FOTR extended DVD. He goes on to say,

“…, I had to train Elijah to write with his quill, too, and do his little bit in the journal.”

Does this give us a little insight as to what events might appear at the end of ROTK?

Today, March 17th marks exactly NINE months until Return of the King! This is the very special time where we’ll experience morning sickness…yay!

Lord of the Rings trilogy star Sean Astin is in talks to star opposite Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in Columbia Pictures’ comedy 50 First Kisses for director Peter Segal. Production is slated to begin in the spring. Astin will play Barrymore’s brother, who speaks with a lisp. [More]