Peter Jackson has accused the New Zealand’s two biggest daily newspapers of endangering his family with grossly inaccurate reports about his personal wealth. [More]
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The official site has updated with an exclusive video interview from Ian McKellen about the return of Gandalf. It’s in Quicktime. [More]
The other day we posted about a 16-minute compilation of clips on a Norwegian site. You can now (hopefully) grab this clip. The filesize is 30MB though and it only works in Windows Media Player as far as I can tell. I also think you need the latest div-x. Right click, and “save as”. [More] Spoilers!!
Update: From Robert: I am on a mac running OSX and after an hour or two of trying to get the video to play, I discovered it plays fine in Media Player 7.0 if you change the extension from .asx to .asf Thought I’d pass this along in case fellow mac-heads are going crazy trying to open the file.
Looking for some bookends to hold up those 15 different versions of The Lord of the Rings in your study? Sideshow/Weta Collectibles has just released their first set of exclusive bookends titled ‘No Admittance Except on Party Business.’ These pieces are sold as a set and are available now for pre-order. [More]
Portland, Oregon-based Tolkien fansite BitofEarth.net is teaming up with the leader of all things online in Middle Earth, TheOneRing.net (TORN) and Regal Cinema Lloyd Center 10 to bring you “A Long Expected Party”, a 36-hour marathon line party to celebrate the December 18th release of “The Two Towers.” [ More] BitofEarth.net are the group who are planning a literary and horticultural tribute to Tolkien and the character Sam.
TORn staffer MrCere (Our Line Party God) had the opportunity to see the Two Towers yesterday. Here’s what he thougt. [More] Minor Spoilers!!