Ringer Spy Morgoth7 sends along this article from M-Business Magazine, take a look!

Yesterday on the main exhibition floor, SGI had presentations from various visual effect companies showing off their work. WETA happened to be sharing when I went and they were showing off MASSIVE, the Behavioural Intelligence software that is being used for crowd generation and the battle scenes in the Lord of the Rings. [More]

Just letting you know that today in the Peterborough Examiner, in Ontario, has a half page article on LOTR, it introduces it and its caracters, and talks mostly about Cannes. Its in the computer section of the paper, it has a link to your site. The article was based in Toronto, if you wish for more information I'd gladdly type it out, I am lacking a scanner.. it also has a picture (seen before) of Frodo and Sam.

The movie hotline at my local theater in Ludington, MI has an interesting chant going in the background in place of their normal music. It's the verse of the rings and I think I can hear elvish or something. I a little ways through I can hear 'one ring to rule them all and then ash nots something something'. Just thought I'd let ya know,they're also playing the FOTR trailer on planet of the apes and either rush hour 2 or rat race.

"I saw the magazine from where the picture of games workshop new battle system was. It was nice to seen but no new there. BUT I also saw other LOTR related product! [More]

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Just thought I would inform you that the internet trailer has been getting airtime on NumberOne in Turkey (a music TV channel) in their computer/internet spot.

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Apparently a contract between New Line and the cinemas displaying the films will be enforced world wide. [More]

Thanks to Fabius Feadur for the news, who also adds, "We are a little association, but growing, 250 members - the first and greatest in South América!"

Thanks to Lennie for that.

I heard the Asian Rumour from a distributor. I rang him again to see if he could shed any more light on the subject. He said the Asian release is subject to some strict laws in an attempt to prohibit the pirate film industry. [More]

hobytla sends along this great scan from Entertainment Weekly, check out this new pic of Gandalf and Frodo in what looks like Moria!

Today's USA Today (just like every Thursday edition) has a Top 50 Best Seller list. The Hobbit (by a certain J.R.R. Tolkien) claimed 21st, up from 35th last week. Be sure to take a look, and keep your eye out for next week's chart.

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The Fox channel in the states is supposed to run a LOTR special over the Thanksgiving weekend, a making of type thing I believe. [More]

The Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood says there was tension between the $650 million epic's stars and those in Star Wars: Episode II during a visit to its sets in Sydney last year. [More]

I just recieved my September edition of Maxim magazine. On page 48 in the Maxim Calender it lists Saturday Sept 22 as Hobbit Day, listing: It's Hobbit Day! celebrate by wishing you had at least one friend who wasn't an imaginary inhabitant of Middle Earth. There is also small picture of Bilbo from the animated hobbit movie attached.

I went to the SIGGRAPH Houdini Users Group Meeting on Sunday at the Westin Bonaventure. [More]

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Parabola ("Myth, Tradition and the Search for Meaning") is a great magazine that I recently subscribed to, so I was very happy to see Tolkien once again featured within. The piece on 'foolish Hobbits' that was mentioned is excellent and gave me yet another way of viewing the Lord of the Rings story. [More]

This evening Extra TV! previewed the top movies coming out this fall. The top two movies by far according to Extra are our very own Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. Footage included the cover of Premiere magazine featuring Elijah Wood and the "Lord of the Rings" in large print, the "There's something down there... Elijah Wood (Frodo)" part of the newest trailer, and a quick shot from the first preview of the orcs and the Nazgul riding towards the camera.

Happened to have a day off work today and was flicking through the offerings of the various inane morning talk shows. On one channel I was pleasantly surprised to see the FOTR trailer (first one I think). Turned out that David Wenham (Faramir) was being interviewed about his involvement in the LOTR in conjunction with the impending release of his new movie The Bank.

From: Benn

An advertisement for the "Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring" tabletop battle game from this Septembers issue of Wizard magazine.

Book Sense is pleased to announce The Lord of the Rings Adventure Begins Here Sweepstakes! In September, via a partnership with Houghton Mifflin and New Line Cinema, Book Sense and BookSense.com will launch an eight-week promotion featuring the soon-to-be-released film Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and movie tie-in books. [More]

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From: Jaguarundi

In the August 11th issue of World (a very conservative news magazine), they devoted a page to the children's bestsellers. At the bottom of the page, they suggest LotR as an alternative to the Harry Potter books that are ruling the bestseller list. And yes, they did mention the movie. Here is a scan of that page (I've cropped it so it only contains the LotR section.

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Chief technical officer John Labrie told an Infinity Solutions technology seminar in Wellington last week that the Miramar facility now has 150 artists, with 230 staff in total, and is still growing. [More]

Thanks to John Saunders and the Massey News.