The Old Port of Montreal Presents ‘Medieval Times’: The guests of the “Théâtre Médiéval Sire d’Howard” will take part in an innovative event. They will be part of the aristocracy representing their valiant knights by wearing their respective colours. The King will entertain his guests in his heated Big Top and they will be overwhelmed by a live combat with swords and horses. [More]

Take a look at what Toy Biz has planned for this fall season, coolness beyond cool! Treebeard…Sauron..LOTR Crossbow! (I think I found my x-mas present for Corvar in that one! -xo) [More]

Don writes: You’ll have a blast at our Bagginses Birthday Bash! Medieval weaponry seminar, medieval costume seminar, trivia contest, LOTR TCG swiss constructed tournament, winner of the tournament wins a copy of a Sting sword![More]

Frodos Girl writes: lotrshop.com finally has a halloween costume section, so far consisting of two Gandalf costumes, a Moria orc, and a kids’ size Ringwraith. [More]


Frodo minty goodness!

Teri writes: The Royal Canadian Mint has put out a press release that it has issued a coin set with the LOTR cast likeness. [More]

According to an e-mail that Thenamir just received from Warner Home Video, there will be TTT tickets included in specially marked packages of the ‘Platinum Series’ extended version of the FOTR DVD.  A bit of a break to help justify the cost of the second version, perhaps?  The email also talks about the extended VHS version, for those of you who don’t have DVD! So that answers that question.