Canadian Ringers should rest easy: No, we haven’t forgotten about you, there simply isn’t any information on Trilogy marathons in the Great North yet. As soon as we have the facts, be sure that we will post them! Most theater managers seem to feel they will have more concrete knowledge towards the end of the month.

P.S. We are also putting together the mounds of mail we’ve received on other International showings into some sort of coherent order. Stay tuned for further details.

musicfromthemovies.com writes: Composer Howard Shore will conduct a series of concerts around the world of his epic six movement The Lord Of The Rings Symphony. The first confirmed date is Friday 16th April 2004, in Antwerp, Belgium. Yet to be confirmed is the premiere performance in New Zealand on Saturday 29th November 2003. Further dates are to be announced, including a performance in London. Shore is also set to record the symphony, which runs over two hours, for release on CD. [More]

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Awards(TM) show will be televised LIVE at 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 21, for the first time on Spike TV. The show will feature ten “Men of the Year” award winners from the November issue of GQ. The GQ “Men of the Year” Awards(TM) live on Spike TV, is sponsored by Hummer and L’Oreal.

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Ringer Spy Elf Lady sends along these very interesting images from the latest issue of White Dwarf Magazine. They appear to be slightly different images of Pelennor Fields, Aragorn, Merry & Pippin than we’ve seen before. !!!Spoilers!!! [More]

Knight of Gondor sends along some great images and details on the ROTK action figures for Gandalf and Dernhelm! Take a look! !!Spoilers!! [More]

Line Party Leader Benjudah writes: Hi. I’m the line party admin for the Cinemark Tinseltown USA party in Rochester, NY. I just called the theater today to find out how many tickets remain and I spoke to the manager who said there are about 100 tickets still remaining for the show. [More]