Thanks to JJ for this: The latest issue of the literary journal Parabola contains an article examining the anti-hero ‘fool’ status of the Hobbits in LoTR. The article is illustrated with movie stills, including one of Bilbo I have not seen before… Scan and send people!!
Category: Original TORn
Ringer Spy Kevin popped in to tell me that you can pre-order the animated ‘Hobbit’ and ‘LOTR’ from Reel.com.[More]
From: Benn
An advertisement for the “Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring” tabletop battle game from this Septembers issue of Wizard magazine.
The Lord of the Rings Adventure Begins Here Sweepstakes!
Book Sense is pleased to announce The Lord of the Rings Adventure Begins Here Sweepstakes! In September, via a partnership with Houghton Mifflin and New Line Cinema, Book Sense and BookSense.com will launch an eight-week promotion featuring the soon-to-be-released film Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and movie tie-in books. [More]
Thanks to Bongo for the tip!
These amazing new pics have appeared on French site Numenor – Did the mysterious Boumbo have a hand in this? Either way, they’re fabulous images. Here’s some new links that should work better: Bilbo,
Sting and
Rivendell
Thanks to Tom and Rosa.
From: Jaguarundi
In the August 11th issue of World (a very conservative news magazine), they devoted a page to the children’s bestsellers. At the bottom of the page, they suggest LotR as an alternative to the Harry Potter books that are ruling the bestseller list. And yes, they did mention the movie. Here is a scan of that page (I’ve cropped it so it only contains the LotR section.