Thanks to all those dedicated LOTR fans who emailed in such positive feedback for the ROTK CD Cardz this Fall. Discussions have already started with New Line in NY regarding the proposed content of this next set and SERIOUS will be posting exciting updates on this over the next few months. So keep an eye on TORN and SERIOUS for new developments … all great stuff so watch this space and thank you all again.

Ford of Rivendell sends this: “Sunday night at 10pm, on HGTV there is a show “Extreme Homes” that has a hobbit styled house. It’s all underground, showing windows. Looks pretty neat. [More] It will be on June 1 at 10pm est and June 2 at 1am est. They say it’s a Mexican Green House, but sure looks like a hobbit style house to me!”

Ringer Spy Yuko was near the Stone Street set in Wellington the other day, and snapped this picture of set construction for us. Things have certainly progressed since Ringer Spy Taniwha took these pictures for us not so long ago! The Golden Hall appears almost complete, and you can just see an Oliphaunt Rig peeking over the top. [More] Minor Spoilers!

How cool is this? With our help Houghton Mifflin is letting the fans of TORN pick the cover for a limited edition of The Lord of the Rings to be included in the ‘Book and Bookends Gift Set’ coming to American bookstores this November. Vote for your favorite jacket image by June 23rd and you might just win one free of charge! It’s it not often that we plain old fans get to have input on these kind of things, so vote today! [Vote!]

Eowyn and Theoden are borne off the battlefield in honour, while noone notices a small fatigued Merry wandering in the background with tears filling his eyes. When Pippin finds his friend, Merry is already falling under the Black Shadow. Soon the wounded are all laid in beds in the houses of healing, but though they are tended well there seems to be no cure for the shadow of the nazgul. But then a wise woman of Gondor remembers an old proverb; “the hands of the king are the hands of a healer”.[More]

Eowyn and Theoden are borne off the battlefield in honour, while noone notices a small fatigued Merry wandering in the background with tears filling his eyes. When Pippin finds his friend, Merry is already falling under the Black Shadow. Soon the wounded are all laid in beds in the houses of healing, but though they are tended well there seems to be no cure for the shadow of the nazgul. But then a wise woman of Gondor remembers an old proverb; “the hands of the king are the hands of a healer”.[More]