The Official website now has the rating for The Return of the King. It is rated PG-13 for INTENSE EPIC BATTLE SEQUENCES AND FRIGHTENING IMAGES.

For those keeping record at home:

FOTR was rated Rated PG-13 for epic battle sequences and some scary images.

TTT was rated Rated PG-13 for epic battle sequences and scary images.

Sister Ghastly writes: At 10am on Friday, November 7, Dr. Amy H. Sturgis will be giving a lecture comparing the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling at Belmont University. This lecture is open to the public. [More]

IG Farrell (who has coined a new phrase, ‘weathertopping’) writes: I wanted to send you a couple of photos of the Aragorn outfit I wore. All apart from the cloak were bought from a local charity shop and cost less than £30.00 in total. The cloak was made by my fiancee and cost around £6.00 – the sword was £2.99 in a local toy shop. The party took place in a Scottish castle and the torches in the walled garden were just too much to resist for a bit of Weathertopping. [More]

Mike writes: I’ve just seen the new Teaser for Return of the King that is going to be shown in front of The Matrix: Revolutions. I’m a manager at a local theater, and we were screening one of our copies of the film tonight. Anyway, the new teaser is very disappointing because it contains absolutely no new footage. 100% of it was in the longer trailer. Believe me, I’ve seen that trailer countless times (I always find a way to slip in to see it), so I’m VERY familiar with it, shot by shot. The new teaser is just a scaled back version of the trailer. Just wanted to write in so people don’t get their hopes up like I did.

(This also confirms another trailer report we posted last week – Xo)

Word from Taniwha about the home of ROTK’s world premiere, the Embassy in Wellington. They’re doing a great trilogy marathon on the 17th. There’s also a countdown clock and you can overlook the Embassy on their webcam from now on. [More]

Annalisa sends us news from his corner of the academic world, including the Tolkien Encyclopaedia, and ‘so you want to be a Tolkien Scholar.’ [More]