If you picked up the Sideshow/Weta Collectibles newsletter last week, you saw a brief story about how the Sideshow/Weta products will continue into 2005 with new statues, busts and environments. Additionally, they will be announcing a new product at our very own One Ring Celebration! [Click Here]
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The December 26th edition of the comic ‘Sheldon’ featured this refrence to Gollum and LOTR. [More]
SEATTLE, Washington (AFP) – Internet retailer Amazon.com reported record holiday sales, coaxed by hot demand for electronic consumer goods such as the Apple iPod music player…Among the highlights for the holiday period: DVD sales in the week ending December 12 set a one-week record. “Lord of the Rings, Return of the King Extended Edition” made a single-title, one-day record of 13,000 orders on December 14. [More]
Roberto Robert over at Bad Taste, the Italian LOTR site,has seen the Extended Edition – the Italian distributor sent him a copy. He’s not that enthusiastic about all of the additional material. His full description, with lots of SPOILERS, is HERE This is going to heat things up, now! I’m sure everyone’s going to have an opinion about this. !!! MAJOR SPOILERS !!! [More]
In celebration of the Lord of the Rings 50th anniversary, Ted Nasmith presents slides of his paintings from the new edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel to the trilogy. Nasmith was commissioned for twenty-six new paintings. He will be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX today (Oct 31st). Nasmith will be joined by Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey at this event.
not a hobbit writes: I wanted to tell you about Ted Nasmith’s presentation and book signing on Tuesday evening at Bound To Be Read on Grand Ave. in St. Paul, Mn. [More]