From greendragon: 
Bruce Hopkins (Gamling) is looking for listeners across the globe! He currently hosts a talk show called The Overnighter with Bruce Hopkins on alternate Sundays from 1 to 6 a.m. New Zealand time, but folks in the USA can catch him Saturday mornings starting at 9 a.m. E.S.T. live. Go to http://www.radiolive.co.nz/ for an upcoming schedule of shows, stream the show live, and read Bruce’s blog.
Tune in if you can – and if you send Bruce a message he may even say hi to you on air!
Category: LotR Movies
Thank to Ringer Rick for sending in this link to this Lord of the Rings themed Strange Brew cartoon. [View]
Last month, TheOneRing.net and Warner Brothers teamed up to celebrate the release of The Lord Of The Rings Motion Picture Trilogy on Blu Ray with a special giveaway. We’ve finally gotten around to announcing the winners (yay!):
Congratulations to message board member jmmorehouse who wins the Grand Prize of a Lord of the Rings Middle-earth Treasure Chest Jewelry Box.
Second place goes to message board member Aranel. Aranel wins a Sterling Silver Arwen Evenstar Pendant!
The Sterling Silver Elven Leaf Brooch for the Third place prize goes to message board member vata33.
Other winners of smaller prizes will be contacted via the message boards. We’d like to thank all those who participate and apologize in our delay of posting the winners!
To see the original contest post, Click here
Anthony B. Robinson writes: In response to my recent piece on Australia, Crosscut readers quite correctly pointed out the role of natural resources and their extraction in the strength of the Australian economy. That is a major factor that I didn’t note. Coal mining for the Chinese market is huge. Still, the more conservative bent of banking here (and in Canada) has been a hedge against inflation. And the more robust public sector has balanced excessive recourse to privatization.
Now I’m in my second week in small New Zealand, which affords opportunities for some comparison to its huge neighbor, Australia. In some respects, New Zealand is to Australia as Canada is to the United States. Australia, like the U.S., has the larger population and the dominant economy, tending to overshadow its neighbor culturally as well as economically. More..
Linuxelf sends along a few more videos from the LOTR golden days. Take a look at the ROTK Golden Globe wins, a party at 3Foot6 and Wellington’s famous Cuba Street.
ROTK Golden Globes Wins
Sean Astin is getting back into character as Samwise Gamgee, Frodo Baggins’ faithful hobbit friend in the Lord of the Rings trilogy—but he’s not prepping to shoot The Hobbit, because that is set before his character was even born. Samwise will be appearing in the new Warner Brothers Interactive video game The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest.
“There’s a video game coming out soon,” Astin said in a group interview on May 15 in Burbank, Calif., where he was promoting his Disney Channel series Special Agent Oso. “Tomorrow I’m doing like my last day on it. That’s all about what happens after The Lord of the Rings. It’s set sort of in Hobbiton, and Sam has all his children and other children and is telling them these stories. Then as he starts telling the stories, the game kind of kicks in and you can be Aragorn.” More..