Today is Alan Lee’s Birthday! Alan was born on August 20th, 1947 in London, England. That makes him 59 years old today, happy birthday Alan!
Month: August 2006
Today is John Noble’s Birthday! John was born on August 20th, 1948 in Port Pirie, South Australia. That makes him 58 years old today! Happy Birthday John!
Parallel writes: I am a journalist working in the Toronto area. I had arranged to have an interview with Billy Boyd before his upcoming apperance here on the September 1st Labour Day weekend, but was told two days ago that he’s had to drop out of the show. Not sure if it’s a personal or professional committment. Too bad, I was looking forward to speaking with him.
Xoanon here, the news has been confirmed on the Con’s website. [More]
Melissa writes: This editorial is really only tangentially related to “Lord of the Rings,” but I simply had to share it. It’s a quite touching account of a teenage boy who’s recently announced he’s homosexual. Naturally, Sir Ian McKellen is mentioned because of his positive impact on the perception of homosexuality in the modern day. It’s just… the nature of the mention that had me in stitches. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of Sir Ian’s death have been greatly exaggerated. [More]
The city of Aachen will swell with the music from Lord of the Rings tonight (August 18th). Sinfonieorchester Aachen will be performing the LOTR score in Germany. Follow this link for more dates and cities! [More]
Matt from Topps writes: We have several cool components to the LOTR Masterpieces set, an all artwork LOTR set, that we think people should hear about. [More]