Jeff Hrubiak writes: It has been just over a year since The Lord of the Rings Tradeable Miniatures Game from Sabertooth Games brought Tolkien’s Middle-earth to the gaming table with the all new Combat Hex® gaming system. Since the initial release of the 120 figure Base Set (BS) in October 2003 Sabertooth has brought avid gamers and Tolkienists alike such exciting new products as The Fellowship of the Ring (FE) Expansion, 2 Map Packs, and 3 Premium Line (PL) Figures. In addition, they have many new releases planned for Christmas Time 2004 and many more throughout 2005. [More]
Category: Old Main News
The good folks from the Salvation Army writes: When these bears were donated to the Salvation Army, they knew that they’d had a great life with their previous owners. They also knew that they were ready to take on a more demanding role for the 10th Annual Teddy Bear Tea and Auction, which raises money for the North Central Brevard County Salvation Army Domestic Violence Program in Cocoa, Florida. [More]
From the folks at the Minnesota Tolkien Society: Sean Astin’s down home goodness was no greater than when he spoke with and signed autographs for the crowd of over 700 people last night at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. [More]
These are a little late in coming, however here are a few choice images from the Armageddon Convention in Wellington. Here are a few images of Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies and the always lovely Sarah McLeod! [More]
Laura writes: I just thought I’d send you my photos from when I went to the signing in London. It was all over pretty quickly once we got in, but I will say that Sean was very sweet and gracious when I met him, despite having a queue of 200+ to get through (plus the 500 pre-orders he had to sign too). [More]
Chris writes: On the German TV show :”Die besten Filme aller Zeiten”- or “the best Movies of all Times”, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy came in as No. 1, voted by more than 30% of the Germans. Runner ups were “Star Wars” as 2nd and “Forrest Gump” as 3rd. Billy Boyd accepted the award and talked about the friendship that evolved between cast and crew. When asked to show the tatoo on his shin that the whole fellowship bears, he said that they swore an oath to never show it on TV. When he was asked why Elijah had then shown his on an American TV show, he answered that Elijah was in big trouble after doing that.