From: LC

While making my daily rounds on the oldmanmurray.com message boards, I came upon this little item. Fairly interesting, though not groundbreaking stuff. Slight language alert, as is typical at oldmanmurray.com.

They were planning on a turnout of about 9,000. They found out the night before {Tuesday} they were down about 3,000, which meant a 3 hour delay on the start time while they scoured the schools. They arrived at Victoria Uni, both Open and Wellington Polytechs and every high school within an hours drive, in about 30 buses and army trucks and said hop in. [More]

Garth from DarkHorizons has a nice piece of art from Germany apparently, I’m not too sure if it is concept art, promotional item, or some really good fan art. Check it out here. [More]

From: Tim

Fellowship is once again Empire’s No 1 Awaited Movie–with a large picture of Elrond and a staircase in Rivendell,and a summing up,which includes a quote from PJ re–the competition with Harry potter-“Harry Potter opens at least a month before we do,and I hope it’s a great movie.I just think that if people love Harry Potter and they get into wizards and magic,then hopefully they can move on into Tolkien.”

From: The Evening Post

Lord Of The Rings production company Three Foot Six Ltd has applied for consent to bring a Gulfstream III jet to Wellington International Airport 10 times in the next 30 months. [More]

Check out these amazing pics from my insider at United Cutlery! These things look amazing! I cannot wait to have Sting hanging from my wall!

Riskbreaker here with late-breaking news. I have included pictures of the new United Cutlery replicas out this fall. Much thanks to my friend on the inside. These are STING, GLAMDRING and the SWORD OF THE WITCH KING. And yes, they all rhyme.

Seems like the folks at EW Online don’t like our interest in LOTR. Either that or they seem to notice how thier hits go up when they say something bad about LOTR, or anything at all…ah well. [More]