Happy Birthday Billy Boyd! Billy was born on August 28th 1968 in Glasgow, Scotland. That makes him 35 years old today! (or exactly 10 years and 1 month older than me! -Xo). Happy Birthday Billy!
Month: August 2003
More news from BOBW (The Best of Both Worlds Convention) – they have a new guest, and they’re auctioning the chance to sit at the banquet table with their special LOTR guests. [More]
Meanwhile, here’s a book I’d heard about ages ago and have been curious about ever since – John Garth’s “Tolkien and the Great War.” Huancry writes, “Thankfully it seems HC have realised their original cover pic for Garth’s book was pretty boring ….. the pic on their website now shows a far better one IMHP . Also the title has changed from ‘ TOLKIEN’S WAR ‘ to ‘ TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR’ subtitled ‘ The Threshold of Middle-earth.’ ” [More]
The Hawbit writes, “I was browsing through Houghton Mifflin’s online catalogue, and I found that The art of the Return of the King will be available January 1st, 2004. [More]
TORn staffer Saint sends in this very amusing promotion from a Michigan Walmart — Have your photo taken with your favorite heroes from The Lord of the Rings! If you happen to be anywhere near Bay City on Saturday, you should check it out! [More]
Stores which broke a worldwide embargo for the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers DVD face an investigation from the film’s distributor. Retailers across the UK were selling the DVD on Friday – it was supposed to go on sale on Tuesday – after a supermarket put the film on its shelves at midnight. [More]