Thanks to LEH for the link. It’s difficult to imagine a more important time for a most important story, the one J.R.R. Tolkien brilliantly penned, to be beautifully retold on screen… [More]

One of our Japanese Ringers wrote in to express upset over some major spoilers present in the RotK trailer: [More] Spoiler!
UPDATESpoiler! Madhatter writes in also from Japan to explain the problem more clearly. I know New Line once considered the Japanese market a gamble, but whose idea was it that revealing the ending and most important conclusions to the story would help drive up audience numbers? [More]

Displaying an admirable willingness on the part of a reporter to actually research Tolkien’s world, the Charleston Gazette offers a story (albeit a snarky one) examining the fates of LOTR’s primary characters. [More] Spoilers?

Once again, the festive season brings us Tolkien’s elves as well as Santa’s. For the third year in a row, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings saga sails triumphantly into cinemas in late December. [More]

It is expected Lord of The Rings: The Return Of the King will break box office records when it opens today, but it will have to collect mammoth takings to take the shine off one special fish. [More]

WHILE little kids counted down the sleeps to Santa Claus, the rest of Tasmania seems to have been waiting for today’s arrival of the real fantasy of the season. [More]