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The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth
The latest article at IGN discusses the structures and strategies of Gondor. There are also some new screenshots which can be viewed here and a new video entitled “Gondor Strategy” which can be viewed here.
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John Howe – official site update
John Howe has updated his official site with news of his latest book, John Howe Artbook. This work includes a preface by Viggo Mortensen. Describing his first sight of some of John’s artwork for the LotR movies Viggo writes, “Here was a faithful, comprehensive, and delicately exact vision of elements of the epic journey we…
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UK residents – win a copy of the RotK EE DVD
For a chance to win a copy of the RotK EE DVD enter the competitions at iofilm, cbbcnews and VideoVista.
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UK residents – win The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age
For a chance to win a copy of The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age for PS2 enter the competition at Virgin Megastores. The closing date for the competition is 4th January
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Coming soon – new trailer for RotK EE
The new trailer for The Return of the King Extended Edition DVD will première tomorrow, Monday 29th November, at the LotR official site.
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UK top 100 movies
All three LotR movies are featured in Channel 4’s list of the UK cinema’s official top 100 movies. FotR is at number 16, RotK at number 19 and The Two Towers at number 22. You can view the full list at channel4.com. The listings were compiled using box office admissions not box office receipts.
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UK residents – win LotR computer games
For a chance to win a copies of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth and The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age enter the competition at channel4.com. The closing date for the competition is 3rd December.
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RotK – Extended Edition review
At Empire Online there’s a review of The Return of the King – Extended Edition. They award both the film and the DVD extras 5 stars and RotK is also their DVD of the month. Contains spoilers
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Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring
December 2nd is the date of the world premiere of Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring. The show features tap dancing hobbits, a Balrog performing a sequined studded cabaret number and more. There’s further information at Plays411. The show will run from 2nd to 18th December at El Portal Theater, North…
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First edition of The Hobbit sells for £6000
In 1937 only 1500 first editions of The Hobbit were published. EDP24 report that one of these first editions, complete with dustwrapper designed by Tolkien, was sold at auction today for £6000 ($11,359.23).
