Jasmine Watson, the woman who made pretty much all of the excellent jewellery seen in The Lord of…
Continue ReadingJasmine Watson, the woman who made pretty much all of the excellent jewellery seen in The Lord of the Rings, has updated her website. You can now take a peek at her newly released 2003 collection. Also, by following the ‘Lord of the Rings’ link you can see the stuff she made for The Two Towers. Be sure to check it out over at JasmineWatson.com!
Plenty of people have been sending me the following link they received in their mailboxes today. It states that New Line will soon be officially announcing the release dates for TTT: The Theatrical DVD soon. [More]
The director of the Lords of the Rings films has revealed there’ll be loads more of the two hobbits and Treebeard in the Two Towers DVD. Peter Jackson says that there are an extra 43 minutes of stuff that wasn’t on the film in the cinemas, and that most of it is really funny. [More]
Luke writes: I have just been listening to BBC radio 3 and I thought you might like to know that Professor Tolkien’s house in Oxford has just been sold for £700,000. This might not sound like a fortune for a house in central Oxford but apparently (according to the newscaster) there is no kitchen or heating! There was a bit of a bidding war going on but they didn’t mention who bought it.
UPDATE: Jon writes: The actual figure was more than £745,000 for the 7-bedded Georgian townhouse in Oxford, where Tolkien & his wife Edith lived in 1918. The Tolkien Society expressed an interest in buying the property but it proved too expensive. The house was bought by an unnamed man, who now plans to renovate it.
We’ve posted about Ian McKellen lending his voice on a new episode of the Simpsons over a month ago. But only now do we learn the unfortunate title (at least for me) of the episode, ‘Regina Monologues’. Sigh…
Two of the most popular licenses of all time combine into one delicious sandwich of death-defying speed and action! [More]
They have 9 horses. You have 700. Can you outrun them?
(Before we get angry emails or asked to post about a petition banning this game, it IS only a joke -Xo)
