Bruce Hopkins (Gamling) has a very different look in this pic! Thanks to Wee Tanya for the link. [More]

News from Max Jaybo: “Hey guys, I’ve been hearing that ‘Shark in Finding Nemo is the voice of Sauron’ news too much around the net. So just in case you don’t know, Sala Baker (Sauron) does NOT do the voice of one of the Sharks. Rather, Bruce Spence, who plays the MOUTH of Sauron, does the voice of Chum in that movie.”

Yo, any Stephen King fans out there? Maegwen [again!] found this article in USA Today, about on the progress of his ‘Dark Tower’ series. It’s heading towards completion at last. King describes the way Tolkien inspired him to start writing his own epic fantasy. [More]

Maegwen writes, “Given that it’s ‘Harry Potter week,’ all the media outlets are dragging out their LOTR/HP comparisons. Here, the BBC discusses whether Harry ought or deserves to enter literary canon alongside the likes of LOTR, or if Phillip Pullman is more deserving.” [More]

Thanks to somebody who sent this in from Huddersfield … Hope TORN’s ROTK party doesn’t have the same problems. [More]

Tom writes: A class on Tolkien is being offered Fall Semester 2003 at Crichton College in Memphis, TN. Tolkien’s works will be evaluated against the writings of great authors. [More]