Have you ever wondered when your favorite stars from Lord of the Rings will be on TV? Now you can know! The CoE TV Guide will list almost all of the shows featuring actors and actresses from Lord of the Rings, and what channel their show will be on (US only). All times EST.
At sideshowtoy.com there’s a preview of their latest new statue, Battle Troll of Mordor. You can now pre-order the Lady Galadriel statue; there are further details here.
The ‘Return of the King’ Extended Edition DVD won three awards at the 5th Annual DVD Exclusive Awards on Wednesday; the awards were won in the categories for Best Overall DVD: New Movie, Best Audio Commentary (Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens), and Best New Movie Scenes.
The Public Lending Right organisation have published their top ten lists of the most borrowed authors and titles in the UK in 2004. Whilst Tolkien does not make either of these lists his Lord of the Rings books did make him the most borrowed classic author. You can read the full story at independent.co.uk.
The third annual Tolkien lecture will take place on 28th April at The Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University College, Bath, UK. Dwight Longenecker will speak about ‘The Journey of the Spiritual Hero – using JRR Tolkien for personal and spiritual growth’ and the talk will be illustrated with clips from the LotR movies. There are further details about the event here.
The latest articles about Decipher’s new expansion set, Black Rider are entitled Nobody Tosses a Durin and Delving Too Deeply. New card previews can be viewed here.
Tom Shippey, a leading authority on J.R.R. Tolkien, science fiction and fantasy, will present his talk on “Tolkien, Peter Jackson, Palantirs, and Boethius” this Thursday, February 10th at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Professor Shippey has published two books on Tolkien, as well as several books and many articles on medieval topics. He acted as consultant to the Jackson movies on pronouncing the many names in many languages, and features extensively on the backup disks of all three extended-version movie DVDs. The evening lecture is free and open to the public.
Today in Middle-earth is now also available in Elrond’s Library as a series of monthly calendars.
So if you can’t wait for the days to pass by to find out what happened in Middle-earth on a particular day, or in a particular month, check out our new section now!
At sideshowtoy.com you can preview a new polystone statue of Lady Galadriel and read an article by Daniel Falconer on the creation of the statue.
You can now download a new The Lord of the Rings – The Battle for Middle-earth skin for Window Media Player 10 at microsoft.com.