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The major Oscar Nominations have just been announced, and can be seen at Oscar.com. Return of the King is up for eleven awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Over at Stuff they have some excerpts from Peter Jackson’s acceptance speeches at the Golden Globe Awards. He said that it was a “huge thrill” to win the awards but was reluctant to speculate about the Oscars.

Return of the King has won all four Golden Globes that it was nominated for. Congratulations to the cast and crew for their great achievement!

Best Motion Picture, Drama: Return of the King
Best Director: Peter Jackson
Best Original Score: Howard Shore
Best Original Song: “Into The West,” by Annie Lennox

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The Gallery Admins are looking for 2 new Shirriffs. Go to our Concerning the Gallery Forum and read through the first post to know if you have what is needed to apply!

Will the Hot Mountain win over Cold Mountain? Lou Lumenick seems to think so. Cold Mountain has eight nominations, where RotK has four. It will be interesting to see who takes top spot. New York Post has more.

The Daily Cardinal has an interesting interview with Tolkien linguist David Salo about his work on the LotR movies.

If you have purchased a Hasbro LotR game (e.g. Monopoly) then you could win LotR movie stunt props. Props left to win include Gimli’s axe, Glamdring, and Narsil. The drawing is weekly. For more details go to Hasbro.

Open to U.S. residents.

Lord of the Rings stamps are being created in the UK. The Royal Mail website gives 26th February as the publication date. Stamp magazine reports they are being released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of 2 of the trilogy books and will show illustrations rather than pictures from the films.

The WBAL Channel.com is hosting a competition to win a set of six collectors’ Lord of the Rings character coins. These are British Royal Mint legal tender, and feature Aragorn, Frodo, Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman, and Gollum. For the full article, and to enter, click here.

Note: This competition is for U.S. residents and ends on 1st February.