Trinity the Purple writes: Last November, I was fortunate enough to attend a signing by Christopher Lee in London. If you’ve met the man, you’ll know he is a Gentleman in every sense of the word. Not just a first class actor but a first class human being too.

Having read and thoroughly enjoyed his autobiography ‘Tall, dark and gruesome’ I asked if he was going to update it, it was published about ’95 and obviously it missed out on his renewed popularity with SW and LotR.

He replied that yes, he had just finished the updating and that it was with the publishers.

Move forward to this lunchtime. Was browsing my local bookshop and saw a poster about books being published next month. Was reading the list when I saw ‘Lord of Misrule – Christopher Lee’

‘Christopher Lee? The actor or the historian?’ thinks I. So I asked a very nice member of staff to check for me and she discovered that yes, it was the actor!

More details can be found here.

I cannot stress this enough – this is well worth your time and money to invest in. Christopher Lee is a fasinating gentleman, with a life that surpasses the most fantastic fiction. Christmas is coming, so after the TTT EE, put this on your Christmas list.

Just checked Amazon.com and I can’t find anything, so this might be British only so far.

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Matt writes: I have news about Christopher Lee (Saruman) who visited Slovenia yesterday (September 18th, 2003) as Ambassador of Unicef. He was invited by Star Entertaiment and the Slovenian Unicef comitee. He traveled the entire country and had a good time. He had several conversations with the media and members of Slovenian Unicef, who are actors as well.

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Huorn writes: United Cutlery has confirmed that they will finally release the Sword of Boromir in 2004! It seems that the sword is still one of the most requested ones, even after so many other fine weapons released by UC thus far. [More]

Even more good news is that Blades by Brown are now selling their own version of the Gondorian vambraces that Boromir used in the FOTR and Aragorn adopted later. [More]

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Peter writes: Just wanted to pass on a message from Adele Carr of Best of Both Worlds to confirm that all our guests have arrived in Canberra ready for the convention this weekend. Apparently a rumour was circulating that Craig Parker was not attending (which even reached his agent and caused a lot of distress on their part). This is patently false since he is now with us in Canberra as of this morning. [BOBW II Website]

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Our insider in the ROTK camp chimes in with some exclusive news on what has been filming lately in New Zealand! Black Gates! Carsairs! Massive Battles and more!! Some Spoilers!! [More]

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Our insider in the ROTK camp chimes in with some news on what has been filming lately in New Zealand!

We are still filming background scenes for ROTK. Despite the fact that the schedule was due to finish mid-August, shooting continues apace. Mostly Orc material approaching Minas Tirith, charging out of the Black Gates of Mordor, being slaughtered by the Army of the Dead, etc. Corsairs have been busy; Army of the Dead likewise. What was originally meant to be two days ended up taking three weeks for the latter.

The latest finish date is the end of this month. It has been making Weta Digital a bit nervous, cutting it this close to the release date, but otherwise everything is still going really well.

There were also some reshoots inside the studios, so can’t really say much about them.

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