Nancy writes: I just wanted to let you know that CinemaWorld, in Lincoln, Rhode Island is showing the LotR films individually for the next few weeks, and will have a TRILOGY screening starting at noon on April 15th. [More]

Ian Collier from The Tolkien Society writes: There are two articles one pro one anti (and the anti is quite anti) and a brief mention of reading day. [More]

But the funniest thing is that the Times’ fiction specialist can’t spell Tolkien’s name right, should the defenders of Tolkein, a Birmingham based childrens’ author, raise an objection? [tolkeinsociety.org]

Garfeimao writes: The Los Angeles Chapter of the JRR Tolkien Society and California State University at Long Beach Proudly Present: Tolkien Reading Day! Featuring: Tolkien Stories, arts and crafts, and free giveaways. [More]

Altaira writes: The Misty Mountains Smial, the Denver, Colorado Tolkien Society group, invites you to join us to celebrate Tolkien Reading Day! On Saturday, March 25 th , people all around the world will gather to read their favorite passages from Tolkien’s works. March 25th is the day the Ring of Power was destroyed and Sauron was defeated:

“It is a date of renewal: the change from the Third Age to the Fourth, the change from fear and oppression to new hope.” – Tolkien Society website

Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Where: Tattered Cover Book Store, Cherry Creek (1st & Milwaukee, just north of the Cherry Creek Mall) – Lower Level Event Space.

Cost: Free

  • Bring your favorite Tolkien passage to read
  • Excerpts from the audio CDs of J.R.R. Tolkien reading his own works
  • Excerpts from the audio CDs of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings
  • Selected readings from “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”
  • Lean about the Tolkien Society

The Tattered Cover will display many books and other items to add to your Tolkien and fantasy collection, including some of the newest Tolkien items (yes, there are new books)!

Please stop by any time between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Children welcome!

Food and beverages are available at the Tattered Cover’s full service café. At 4:00 p.m. we will adjourn to the Fourth Story Restaurant and Bar for snacks and a toast to professor Tolkien.

We have recently added four new fanfilms for you to enjoy! Take a look at ‘The Trouble of the Rings’, ‘Ring Fiction’, ‘Orodruin Dogs’ and ‘Natural Born Orcs’! [TORN Fanfilms]

Ashlee & Rachel Scott write: Hi again. We wrote to you a few days ago thanking you for putting fan films online (available here). We’ve been getting hundreds of requests from schools, teachers, students, friends of friends asking for a copy of our 3 hour full length ROTK parody. People have been coming into work, leaving notes in our mailbox, stopping at our house, following us and doing the same to friends of ours from work. We appreciate their interest and support. But, to be perfectly honest with you, our Mom has ovarian cancer and our family can not afford to duplicate and ship any copies of our ROTK parody to all these people. I hope you understand. [More]

Xoanon here, instead of sending the Scotts money so YOU can get a LOTR DVD, take that same money and use it for a good cause. Please donate to the The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, I think it is something much more important, don’t you? [Donate]