Jennifer writes: Just thought I’d pass on some comments about Sir Ian McKellan’s (Gandalf) appearance at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby British Columbia on November 13. [More]

Ringer Spy Wyvern writes: Well, there wasn’t any doubt that winning a ticket to the Extended DVD premiere in L.A. was a wonderful surprise. I found out about just four days beforehand via email. We were told to appear in costume in order to get our free DVD, and after getting out my Sam Gamgee costume I had been working on all year, and gathering up some of my artwork (just in case….you never know who you might meet at these events!). [More]

Martha writes: Here’s my review of the Tom Shippey lecture I attended in Chicago on 9 Nov 2002. My son who is taking a Tolkien class at Purdue University thought this was interesting, so I decided to pass it on. [More]

Default writes: You probably already know this, but South Park’s new episode was a LOTR parody involving the quest to return an adult movie to the video store. I felt that they stayed very close to the original text….not, but it was hilarious none the less. I appreciated it much more being a rings fanatic.

The Ring Slave writes: Thought I’d drop you a line to let you know that the 10 inch Sauron figure is incredible. Aside from the imposing frame, fantastic articulation and an abundance of movement points for posing – the voice chip is so loud that my neighbor heard it through my office wall! [More]

Mikko writes, “The ticket sales for LOTR:TTT begins on Saturday 7th December. The movie
has been rated ‘K11.’ FOTR has been seen by over 712 000 Finns.” That’s a lot of people for a small country. More news presumably, [ I don’t read Finnish] here