Pinky G sent us these links to Hot Topic, which sells LOTR-themed T-shirts. Their previous offerings sold out ages ago, now they have more…But two of these designs have sold out too! When I checked these two were left: Frodo T-shirt and Legolas T-shirt.

Don’t forget! TheOneRing.net has teamed up with Houghton Mifflin to let all of us fans choose the next Lord of the Rings cover! Place your votes now and enter to win a Bookend gift set to be released in November. [More]

Origen from Tolkien Online sends along a report that the ROTK trailer will not be released until September 26th with New Line Cinema’s ‘Secondhand Lions.’ [More]

Our latest reports confirm the trailer will not be shown with ‘Dumb and Dumberer’ but at this point, I think everyone is guessing. [More]

New Line have created life-size talking Gollum and Smeagol standees. According to the blurb, they both have a hidden motion-detecting voicebox that plays signature phrases. The Gollum version says: “My Precious!”, “You stole it, My Precious, and we wants it!”, and “You filthy little thieves!”, while the Smeagol one says ‘Master’, ‘Smeagol show you the way’, and ‘Smeagol’s free!’. They’re available individually, or as a set. [More]

This shot of the bigature that is Sauron’s stronghold in Mordor has been floating around for some time. But I figured it was time to chuck it into the TORn Scrapbook. For the spoiler conscious, I guess it might be a minor spoiler. Thanks to Aranwe for the prod. [More]

Lolly sends word of the ‘Best of Both Worlds’ convention in Canberra in September. They have just added Brad Dourif [Grima Wormtongue] to a lineup that already looks very good for LOTR fans in Australia. [More]