The other day, we reported some spoilers about Paths of the Dead taken from EA’s forthcoming Return of the King game. Slowly but surely, evidence has mounted that – regardless of the game plot – these spoilers seem increasingly unlikely to affect the film at all. Here’s another nail in the coffin. [More] Spoilers!

The folks at Antipodean Viggophile let us know Stuff.co.nz has a report on the RoTK casting session over the weekend. Apparently, almost 1,000 people travelled from all over New Zealand – and all over the world – to Upper Hutt to see if they could be a part of celluloid history. [More]

TORn Staffer Maegwen spotted this story on Stuff.co.nz. Apparently, one Wellington councillor says the NZ Government should be digging deeper into its coffers to help promote New Zealand in the build-up to the world premiere of The Return of the King. [More]

Ringer Spy MsAllegro sent us this scan of a report in The Citizen (a UK paper) about the recent Collectormania 2003 convention. [More]

Wee Tanya sent us this link to a really rather interesting interview with Liv Tyler, from the Lovely Liv Tyler website. [More]

Lovely Liv Tyler Website has a picture of her face on the cover of B Magazine, and a link to a really interesting interview with her, where she says that she suffers from nostalgia, from an endless desire to capture the moment and make it last forever, resisting change. [More] What an extraordinary coincidence for an actor who played an Elf. Tolkien wrote of Elves, “The Elvish weakness is…to regret the past, adn to become unwilling to face change….They desired…to arrest change, and keep things always fresh and fair.’ [Letters of JRR Tolkien, #181]
For me, the interview showed up weirdly so email me for a transcript if you can’t read it.