People who will attend Ring*Con 2003 in Bonn this weekend will get the chance to win two tickets to the worldpremiere for The Return of the King in Wellington, New Zealand! All visitors are included in a huge raffle sponsored by Air New Zealand. Don’t have a ticket for Ring*Con yet? No worries, they will sell them at the door. Look for more information on their website; www.RingCon.de!

If you’re going for this contest [and there’s LOTS of categories you could enter under] be aware that the closing deadline is now November 30th. [More] Winners announced at December’s Gathering of the Fellowship

So you did. If you’ve bought tickets to the Return of the Ringers party in Wellington and you’re a NZer, you’ll be wondering where the tickets are, because we promised to mail them out to you. They’re at the printers, so you can expect them next week. Meanwhile, we still have room for more people [heh heh, remember we got the big marquee? but bookings close soon.

Ringer Spy Sheepy666 writes: You prolly already know this, but hidden on the 1st disc of TTT:EE (U.S. region 1) is Gollum’s amusing award aceptance speech taken from MTV. Access it by going into the chapter select, pressing up once, and then down once (a golden ring appears).

Ringer Spy Rachel sends in a shot of the “One Ring” cake she had made for her husband’s birthday. “He is a great admirer of Lord of the Rings, and his name is Sam, so I paid a bakery to make this for him. I xeroxed the one ring’s writing from the book, and enlarged it, and then had them put it on the side of a round yellow cake to look like the ring (one cake to rule them all?). Then I found a small Sam figure in this wanna-be Lego toy set about Weathertop to put on top. [More]

Tonight’s special clip on the official site is an examination of the “Theme of Rohan.” PJ discusses how the theme grabbed hold of him. [More]