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E-versions of the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Children of Húrin have recently been released and are now available for download. You can find further information at Harper Collins.

EmpireOnline.com talked to both Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro, and both producer (Jackson) and director (del Toro) say that the Hobbit movie will not be a film that bridges the 60-year gap into the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
“We’ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,” says Del Toro.
“We decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie.” adds Jackson.
You can read more here.

As you can see, we were down for a bit. It would seem that we were hacked, and the hackers completely wiped out our database. Thankfully, being the smart people we are, we have a backup. It’s 6 days old, so there will be some stuff missing from the last few days…sorry about that, but at least we haven’t lost everything! In the meantime, Len (the server guy) and I will be looking into how they did it, and trying to keep it from happening again!

Today, April 17th, is Sean Bean’s birthday. Sean was born in Sheffield, England in 1959 and is 50 today. You can view some pictures of Sean here, of Sean in the role of Boromir here and you can read his CoE cast bio here.

Happy birthday, Sean!

Today, the 4th of April, is Hugo Weaving’s birthday. Hugo was born in Nigeria in 1960, and is 49 today. You can view pictures of Hugo here and pictures of Hugo in the role of Elrond here.