After the phenomenal popularity of New Zealand magazine Pavement’s previous two The Lord of the Rings special issues, the magazine is about to publish its third and final instalment to this amazing trilogy. [More]

Ringer Spy HobbitMerry writes: On Monday night, January 5th, 2004– a radio station in the L.A/Orange County area called K-Mozart (and I believe they are on 105.1) held a special free screening of Return of the King with Sean Astin as a guest for Q&A afterwards. [More]

In a sickening example of marketing gone awry…TORN presents ROTK-themed Valentine’s Day cards and stickers. Because, as you well know, nothing says loving like an image of Gollum sneering at you. My personal favorites are the Denethor Card (a character which oozes love from the get go), and the slightly homo-erotic Pippin & Merry card with the words ‘I’ll always be on your side’ written on them. Some poor boy or girl will be getting this one from his schoolyard crush and won’t know if they want to kiss under a tree or or share a pound of salted lamb. [More]

Chris writes: ROTK has been nominated along with five others for the 16th USC (University of Southern California) Scripter Awards, which aims to find the best book to film adaptation of the year. [More]

COLOGNE (Hollywood Reporter) – Howard Shore, who won an Oscar for his score to “Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring,” has signed on as one of the hosts of this year’s Berlinale Talent Campus, the six-day filmmaking training camp that runs alongside the Berlin International Festival (Feb. 5-15), organizers said Friday. [More]

A BIG thank you to Diamond for sending this transcript to us! [More]