Lord of the Rings remains popular with cartoonists all over the globe. First there’s John Cook from cartoons.sev.com.au who writes: I’ve posted a new Lord of the Rings cartoon revealing the real reason why Gandalf refused the ring. Check it out here!

And ‘Monty’ keeps up his LOTR-inspired storyline as well, according to Karen: Yesterday (April 12) Liv Tyler showed up, just because there aren’t enough babes in the story. [More]

Ringer Spy Irascian writes: Last week John Rhys-Davies was the subject of “60 Seconds” the interview that takes place every day in “Metro” magazine given free to commuters across the UK. You can read the whole interview here!

The LET THE HOBBIT HAPPEN campaign website thehobbitfilm.com has posted two new letter templates to send to our friends at New Line and MGM/UA. Additionally, the number of websites involved in the effort continues to grow with nearly 200 partner posting banners! If you run a website and would like to help, check out the partners area. [More]

JR writes: I went to my brother’s graduation on April 6th in the Auckland Town Hall and the guest speaker was Matt Aitken (Digital Models Supervisor at WETA Digital). [More]

Matt Aitken Talks EE:DVD & Kong

JR writes: I went to my brother’s graduation on April 6th in the Auckland Town Hall and the guest speaker was Matt Aitken (Digital Models Supervisor at WETA Digital).

He talked about all the problems they had making some of the digital creatures including the Balrog, the Eagles and Golum. His main point was that WETA had to use a combination of their creative talent and also technical talent to over come these problems.

The most interesting comment he made was that they had just finished the final shots for the Return of the King Special Edition DVD the day before yesterday (5th April) and that he and his team where now working on King Kong.

Premiere Magazine Talks Bloom & Troy
Orlando Bloom on the cover of Premiere Magazine

Ringer Spy djdeathskiss sends along the May 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine that features Orlando Bloom on the cover. It also has an article about his upcoming movie ‘Troy’. [ Posted in:

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