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A gift for your favorite Gollum?
The One Ring is available at Badali Jewlery in gold, platinum, sterling silver, and “Gollum gold”. So precioussss!
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Event in Chicago
The Chicago Humanities Festival will be featuring Tom Shippey. “A scholar of Old English and Tolkien’s contemporary, Shippey reminds us that beneath their popular, cinema-friendly exterior, his colleague’s works amount to a serious meditation on Christian religion and pagan mythologies. Book sales and signing follow”.
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Merry Christmas from the Spiderweb Art Gallery
This just in from my e-mail at home: Spiderwebart Gallery E-Mail Customer CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFER ANNOUNCEMENT! Special E-mail ANNOUNCEMENT Good till December 31st. http://www.spiderwebart.com CHRISTMAS IS COMING!
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The Quest in Chicago
On October 16, Transitions Bookplace and Cafe will host Robert Ellwood, author of Frodo’s Quest. He will be discussing his “intriguing interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic, The Lord of the Rings, in terms of core themes of the ancient wisdom tradition, including the development of higher consciousness, death and rebirth and the triumph of good…
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Well if Miranda likes it, then its got my vote, too…
Sci Fi Wire has a blurb on what Miranda Otto thought about the sets created for The Two Towers and Return of the King.
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Deep in the heart of Middle Earth…
…well, ok, Dallas, Texas. It’s the Dallas ComicCon! Meet Brad Dourif, aka Grima Wormtongue. And the Brothers Hildebrandt! Wow! Whoever goes reports back!
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A face only a mother could love (well, maybe not…)
Here is what the Servant of Saruman looks like, in the form of a Decipher trading card. Hey, at least he smiled for the camera!
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Think Christmas…
We read at Sideshow WETA that the Watcher in the Water is available for “Pre-Order Now! Shipping in February/March ’03. Limited Edition of 750 pcs.” Plus it is on sale. Plus if you order now you will receive free busts of Sam and Frodo. Do you feel its pull?
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Q & A with Aragorn
Morphizm has a great, if not lengthy interview of Viggo Mortensen–he comments on his role and Elijah Wood’s role in TTT at the second page of the interview, and how his life has changed thanks to LOTR.
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What to expect in the lobby
Here is a blurb from Coming Attractions: “The new one-sheet for The Two Towers will be hitting movie theaters in the next couple of weeks or so,” said our new scooper (who wanted to remain anonymous.) “I work at a movie theater, and I saw the poster for The Two Towers in the back. I…
