Ringer Spy Celevon writes in: Last night’s edition of Entertainment Tonight reported regular cover hunk Orlando Bloom tops Teen People’s list of sexiest men. (The editor of the magazine basically said it was Orlando first, “the rest nowhere”.) Teen People’s Sexiest Men issue goes on sale September 3rd.

Ringer Spy BalrogWithWings writes: Greater Union is holding a competition to win tickets to the FSF Convention on September 11th in Sydney. The convention includes talks by the special guests, question and answer times, autograph sessions, a charity auction of LOTR items and a huge range of merchandise and collectibles. [More]

From NPR: Commentator Jay Keyser describes a mundane encounter with greatness: going out for a beer with one of his Oxford professors, J.R R. Tolkien, who wrote the Lord of the Rings trilogy. [More]

Thanks to LegolasArcher for sending the link!

Ringer Spy Alatáriël writes: “The other day I was watching Good Day LIVE on Fox, and Patty Duke was on. During the interview, the hosts asked her about Sean Astin, and she said that her son was in New Zealand shooting “Hercules.” Patty said she’s not sure who his character is, but she does know that Sean plays Hercules’ sidekick.” Hey Patty, your son is playing Linus, Hercules’ music teacher. You can say TheOneRing.net told ya’! [More]