A Ringer Spy from Boston writes: It turns out that the LOTR exhibit at the Museum of Science is going to have some really cool hands on activities for the guest to do! There is going to be students from MIT doing metal work, I believe smelting but am not sure, along with activities about scale design and armor. The actual activities themselves are yet to be determined, but they are going to be great! [Tickets]
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This link, and many other mirrors, are making the rounds online. While I’m loathe to post about a bootleg video from Comic-Con, the emails will not stop so here it is. [More] [Mirror] [Mirror]
Melowyn sends in another report from the goings on at Comic-Con 2004. I have also added more images to the scrapbook, including new pics of the Billy Boyd and David Wenham signing session! !!!ROTK EE Spoilers!!! [More]
SAN DIEGO – Sometimes the archenemy of a superhero movie is the super-fan, the kind with the power to create a firestorm of negative buzz on the Internet over a perceived injustice to a beloved character. Now Hollywood has discovered a place where it can try to leap that fan skepticism in a single bound: Comic-Con International. [More]
Tucked away in a lecture room in a Carlisle college, 25 razor-sharp minds are taking a break from discussing one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. One woman is telling her neighbour about a terrible train journey she had from the south of England. “It was a bit like being stuck in Middle-earth really,” she says, unable to resist a reference to the work of the man responsible for this unlikely gathering. [More]
A ‘tabloid’ newspaper in the US called Weekly World News makes it a habit to write fake articles and print them in the newspaper. They’ve written about Elvis being alive, Saddam and Osama being lovers, Aliens found on Mars, and a Bat-Boy, half bat, half boy, living among us. It’s no surprise then that the latest issue features this article. [More]