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New official CD-ROM available
Newline cinema have released a LotR CD-ROM featuring screen savers, desktop wallpapers, posters, video extracts from the film, and also a paint studio. You can buy it for $25 at the NewLine shop.
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LotR festival in Bonn, Germany
German visitors might be interested to know about RingCon 2002, a LotR festival in Bonn, Germany. Guests include the actors who played Haldir, Gil-Galad and Rosie Cotton – find out more at the website.
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Howard Shore to conduct a concert of the LotR music
Howard Shore will conduct a concert in the UK of his LotR music – FotR and tTT – at 3pm on 9th Feb 2003. It will be played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, and tickets are on sale now. See more at the RFH official site.
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LotR nominated in MTV awards
LotR:FotR may have been cheated at the year’s Oscars, but you can show your support at the MTV movie awards, voted for by the public. LotR is nominated for Best Movie, Best Male Performance (Elijah Wood), Best Villan (Christopher Lee), Best Breakthrough Male (Orlando Bloom), Best Action Sequence (Cave Tomb battle) and Best Fight Sequence…
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A new Billy Boyd interview
A new interview with Billy Boyd, including discussion about awards ceremonies and why he wasn’t at the oscars, can be found at his official site.
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PJ to be taken to court
Peter Jackson’s production company, Three Foot Six, are being threatened with legal action by a horse owner whose animals worked on Lord of the Rings. Read the article in the New Zealand Herald.
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Happy Birthday to Andy!
Andy Serkis, the actor who plays Gollum in the films, is 38 today. You can find out more about him at the IMDB or at the official film site. Best wishes to him!
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LotR:FotR sheet music available
If you enjoyed listening to the LotR:FotR soundtrack as much as we did, you might be interested to know that you can now buy the sheet music for Howard Shore and Enya’s preces. You can get it from A-Z Music or Sheet Music Plus. Just type Lord of the Rings into the site search engines.
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Official site updated about video and DVD release
New information and pictures of the layout for the DVD are avaliable on the official LotR site. It also describes what features will be added. Only 4 months until we can have it!
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Two Towers article and pictures
A news article with pictures can be found in the British newspaper The Sun today, or it can be viewed online here.
