Lots of exciting news over at the Fellowship Festival-front. Today a new guest was added to the already impressive line-up: none other than Bernard Hill (Theoden)! This will his first ever fan convention!

Bernard Hill will be attending all three days, an hourly question and answer session in the ‘Hall of Fire’ every day, meeting fans in the one2one sessions as well as attending ‘The Fellowship Feast’, an exclusive dinner for the attending cast & crew and 90 fans.

So far the Fellowship Festival has signed 14 guests for their event, with more interesting announcements to come soon!

In the meantime, TheOneRing.net is proud to team up with the Fellowship Festival to be one of the judges for the ‘New Film Makers Competition’. This is an amazing opportunity to show us what budding filmmakers you all are. Your Quest: produce a film no more than 2 minutes long parodying a scene from The Lord of The Rings films. Guidelines and more can be read here!

And last but not least: stay tuned for your chance to win a pair of Silver 3-day passes for the event (worth £150 each)!

Head over to the Fellowship Festival’s official website for more information or purchase your tickets for the event here!

See ya there!

Billy Boyd’s webmaster Stewart writes: Billy has just posted some info on his website about the proposed Billy/Dom road movie. The definitive “What’s Going On With The Movie That’s Funnier Than A Penguin Playing A Banjo?” answer can be found at Billy’s website, here!

New to DVD this week is the little-known Orlando Bloom film ‘Ned Kelly’. Never having a wide release in North America this release is a real gem for Bloom fans. In it Bloom plays Joe Byrne in this true story about a legendary outlaw and his gang. [Order Now]

Coming to Comic-Con for the first time since The Fellowship of the Ring, Billy Boyd came down to promote the impending release of The Return of the King Extended Edition DVD (which hits in December of 2004), but took the time to catch us up on his post-LOTR/post-Master and Commander projects. [More]

A Ringer Spy from Boston writes: It turns out that the LOTR exhibit at the Museum of Science is going to have some really cool hands on activities for the guest to do! There is going to be students from MIT doing metal work, I believe smelting but am not sure, along with activities about scale design and armor. The actual activities themselves are yet to be determined, but they are going to be great! [Tickets]

This link, and many other mirrors, are making the rounds online. While I’m loathe to post about a bootleg video from Comic-Con, the emails will not stop so here it is. [More] [Mirror] [Mirror]