Clay writes: Houghton Mifflin is pleased to announce the ten winners of The Lord of the Rings Book and Bookends Gift Set, chosen randomly from 4,942 qualified entries received. A clear majority of the nearly 14,000 fans who voted chose an image of Rivendell for the cover of the book within the set. [More]
Day: July 15, 2003
Lilo writes: The BBCi website are sponsoring a contest to win one of three autographed pictures from PotC of Orlando Bloom (Legolas). You have to answer one question about Orlando and then give them your e-mail for contact. [More]
Ostadan writes: One of J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal works, the Qenyaqetsa, or Qenya Lexicon, is being reprinted. This is the first documented version of the language that eventually became Quenya, and dates from around 1917, and although it is expensive, I consider it indispensible for those interested in tracing the development of Tolkien’s languages. Be warned, though, if you think you can ‘learn Elvish’ from it — it is *not* a “Quenya Dictionary”; the language changed considerably by the time Lord of the Rings saw print. [More] [Shop]