TTT Extended Edition extras!
USA Today has seen the whole extended edition DVD with Peter Jackson and afirms it will contain 43 minutes extra, including such scenes as Faramir finding Boromir’s body and more with Treebeard, Merry, and Pippin.
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In mint condition
A series of The Lord of the Rings collectors coins are to be struck by the Royal Mint later this year … Selected coins will be available towards the end of the year to coincide with the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers video and DVD and the premiere of the final part of the film trilogy, The Return of the King.
Be sure to buy it, precioussss…
A glimpse of The Two Towers Extended Edition box art for you! November is so far away…
LOTR cartoon caption contest re: eagle-eyed Dwarf
For the next week, I’m running a Lord of the Rings cartoon caption contest. The cartoon has Gimli boasting to Frodo about his sharp eyes and ears, while walking into an Elvish arrow. The reader gets to write Haldir’s response. The entries are rated by readers with the funniest punchline voted on in a week’s time. The contest ends June 18th!
Easy living
All work and no play makes dull hobbits, they say. Read a small story at Stuff, to see what Hobbits and Men and Elves do when they aren’t busy with ROTK.
More filming for Aragorn and Elrond
Ain’t It Cool News has a blurb regarding a scene shot recently for ROTK, with a bit of comedy from Hugo Weaving. Scroll about 1/3 of way down at the site to read.
Do YOU want to see The Hobbit become a movie?
Are you one of the many fans that wants to see The Hobbit become a movie? If so, sign this petition addressed to New Line!
MTV awards for the Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers won 4 awards from MTV. Click read more to find out which.
Orcs is an Offical Word, really!
A new Oxford English Dictionary published Friday has 6,000 new words added to it! One of these words was invented by Tolkien himself: Orcs. The word is describe as: “members of an imaginary race of ugly, aggressive human-like creatures.”
The dictionary says the word probably comes from the Latin orcus meaning hell, or the Italian orco, meaning monster.
To read more about this, visit: ABC News
Happy Birthday, Karl Urban
Today, June 7th is Karl Urbans 31st Birthday. The New Zealand born actor portrays “Eomer” in the Lord of The Rings trilogy.