Abner writes: Just read the spy report on theonering.net, regarding the cavetroll’s new location and I wanted to assure you that Gollum is still on top of the airport as of an hour ago, although the fellbeasts have indeed left for other pastures. I drive a small tourbus around Wellington, and I point out Gollum three times a day to groups of tourists.
Sideshow/Weta is running a small survey to learn about ‘where you surf.’ The contest is yet another chance to win the sold out 3/4 scale Gollum bust, or, if you are excited about the upcoming Van Helsing film (co-starring David Wenham), you can try and win a 1/4 Scale Van Helsing figure. [More]
Anna Slack writing On Behalf of the Cambridge Tolkien Society sends this in: On Saturday 19th June, 2004, members of the Cambridge Tolkien Society will be performing a continuous 13-hour read-through of the BBC’s excellent radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in Borders Cambridge, with the kind permission of Brian Sibley, Michael Bakewell, and the Tolkien Estate. [More]
Anna Slack writing On Behalf of the Cambridge Tolkien Society sends this in: Just a quick email on behalf of the Events Committee of the Cambridge Tolkien Society (UK), to alert you to a project we’ll be running soon, for which we’d love to garner some support from fans worldwide, if that’s okay!
On Saturday 19th June, 2004, members of the Cambridge Tolkien Society will be performing a continuous 13-hour read-through of the BBC’s excellent radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in Borders Cambridge, with the kind permission of Brian Sibley, Michael Bakewell, and the Tolkien Estate.
This is a charity event, and every penny that we raise will be going to the National Trust, to help in projects such as the Snowdonia and Coastline appeals. We’ll be joined on the day by Brian Sibley, and possibly Michael Bakewell!
We’ve just posted a website up with more information on it (www.holbytlas.net), and it would be great if you could put us up as an announcement on the news part of TOR.n.
Many thanks!
Anna Slack
Keeper of the Book of Westmarch
On Behalf of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Take this report from SFcrowsnest.com with a 20 pound bag of salt: We’ve been tipped off that the legal and ownership issues which surround the Lord of the Rings have come under an intense round of negotiation as a significant unnamed party – said not to be Peter Jackson in this instance – work towards a new multi-million dollar per episode television series set in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. [More]
Take this report from SFcrowsnest.com with a 20 pound bag of salt: We’ve been tipped off that the legal and ownership issues which surround the Lord of the Rings have come under an intense round of negotiation as a significant unnamed party – said not to be Peter Jackson in this instance – work towards a new multi-million dollar per episode television series set in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. The working name of the project is TOME – Tales of Middle Earth – and the proposed timeline is the years following the events in The Hobbit, but prior to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. One of the main points that need resolution is whether Peter Jackson should get first dibs on a movie adaption of The Hobbit, or whether the TOME project should be allowed to develop the children’s book as a movie prior to the launch of any television series set in Middle Earth.
