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CoE TV Guide: February 6th – 13th

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.

Council Courier – February issue out now

The February edition of the Council Courier is out now, and this month’s featured Realm is the Realm of Varda. If you did not receive your copy via e-mail you can view February’s issue here.

Farewell to Lórien: Song Analysis

Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen, yéni unótimë ve rámar aldaron! Like the Evenstar – the eighth song on the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers soundtrack, Farewell to Lórien is one of the majestic, and mystical elf-orientated songs. Farewell to Lórien is played in the Extended Edition of the Fellowship of the Ring movie; […]

Tolkien lecture

On 22nd April, at California State University, San Marcos, Jane Chance, Professor of English at Rice University, will present a lecture onTolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-Earth. There are further details at csusm.edu.

LotR – The Battle for Middle-earth patch

The Battle for Middle-earth patch 1.01 is now available at EA Games. The patch includes new multiplayer maps, quick match tweaks and much more.

An Interview with gwendeth – by the Realm of Varda

How did you discover CoE? Actually, I found CoE almost by ‘accident’. After FotR, I got ‘hooked’ on JRRT’s Elvish languages, and was browsing through the ‘links’ on the Yahoo Group ‘Elfling’ (no clue now as to how I even found that!). I saw the one for CouncilofElrond.com, and thought, ‘Oh what the heck – […]

LotR trading card game – Black Rider

The latest article at Decipher is entitled Nobody Tosses a Durin . You can view previews of some of the new Black Rider cards, including Sauron’s Gaze and Confronting the Eye, here.

Middle-earth artwork

In this interview at The Alien Online Gary Russell talks about his latest book, The Art of Lord of the Rings, a collection of the best artwork from the three LotR movies.

Win a statue of Merry

Enter the prize giveaway at sideshowtoy.com for a chance to win a polystone statue of Merry.

The closing date is 11th February and you have to be a newsletter subscriber to enter.

“Into the West”

This is the story of the inspiration for Into the West, as told in part 6 of the Appendices of the Return of the King DVD. Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson decided that they wanted to support a campaign for organ donation in New Zealand. So they thought that the best way to do this […]