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Silver Leaves – call for submissions

Silver Leaves is the official journal of The White Tree Fund. Its purpose is to educate, raise awareness, support charitable initiatives, and entertain. Silver Leaves is looking from submissions from established scholars, authors, and artists as well as from those new to the publishing world.

For more information about submitting to the first issue of Silver Leaves, please go to whitetreefund.org

The music of the rings

Chance Thomas wrote the music score for Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Five years of researching Tolkien’s work led to, “ the formulation of an authoritative Tolkien Music Style Guide, which translated the literary research into concrete musical terms.”. You can read more about his work in this interview at the article at Gamedaily.

NY Times review of ‘The Lord of the Rings Online’

After more than 80 hours immersed in Turbine’s multiplayer ‘The Lord of the Rings Online’, New York Times writer Seth Schiesel has written a review of the game. He seems very happy with the way the game plays , and in its ability to bring the player into the story without changing the main characters . You can read the full review here.

Lord of the Rings is the top movie soundtrack

Howard Shore’s music for the Fellowship of the Ring topped a recent poll run by UK radio station Classic FM to find the nations favorite film music. You can view the top 50 movie soundtracks here.

Has the Hobbit turned traitor?

Thorin’s not budging from his negotiating point, and neither is Bard. A Battle seems inevitable. Come and join us in the Book Club on May 7th, as we move on to Chapter XVI of the Hobbit, and see what Bilbo does to try and remedy the situation before the fighting starts.

Happy birthday John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies celebrates his 63rd birthday today. John was born in Wiltshire, England, on the 5th of May, 1944. John’s cast biography can be viewed here. You can view pictures of John here and pictures of John in the role of Gimli here.

Happy birthday John!

New items in the CoE Store

There is something for everyone in our newly updated CoE Store. Now over 700 items to choose from including novelties, action figures, weapons, books and much much more. The Item of the Month for May is The Children of Hurin available through our affiliate amazon.com. Come visit the store here and see what our affiliates have to offer. Purchases made through the store help the site, so come see what we have for you.