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Viva Tolkien!
Live in Nevada? Then hop over to Las Vegas for a free Tolkien lecture, at the Las Vegas Clark County Library.
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Free LotR Course
You can now take a free online LotR course at Barnes and Noble university!
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A bit lazy or a bit annoyed?
A lot of people have been submitting to the gallery lately – thanks so much for all the great new images! However, there’s one rule that’s been frequently neglected: some of the images that we’re getting are over 600 pixels wide. This means that the Gallery Admin *coughmecough* has to resize them so they can…
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You’ll get more candy dressed as an Orc…
Alarming Products has Halloween masks of an Orc, an Orc overseer, and the ever-popular Lurtz. Boo!
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Buy this book!
Are you a good Hobbit, or Wizard (or Elf, or Dwarf, or Man, or disimbodied Eye, or Ringwraith, or cuddly lil’ Gollum) or anything/one in-between? Then support this site! Go to Amazon and purchase The Annotated Hobbit! It’s Easy! Fun! Rewarding! Warm Fuzzies from supporting your favorite LOTR site!
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Tolkien is just the greatest!
J.R.R. Tolkien made the list of 100 greatest Britons–the story is at Yahoo, the BBC conducted the poll. Will he make the top ten? Only time will tell.
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Across the pond
Another snippet, this time from Yahoo: Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s effects house, Weta Digital, has signed with Ohio Edit, New York, for its first commercial representation in the U.S. The 15-year-old effects company, based in Wellington, New Zealand, is owned by Jackson and creative effects supervisor Richard Taylor, winner of two Oscars…
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What do they say?
Mighty forces were brought onstage for the stirring world premiere of Howard Shore’s concert version of his score for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
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Server was down!
My apologies everyone, for the server being down for so long today. I’ve asked our server host to look into the speed and server issues that we’ve been having lately, and hopefully these problems will become a thing of the past. Welcome back, and I hope none of you went crazy without your CoE fix!
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Hollywood Bowl Performs Howard Shore’s Music
Lucky news for those of us living in Southern California: the Hollywood Bowl will be performing the symphony composed by Howard Shore for the Lord of the Rings movie this Friday (9th) and Saturday (10th). There are still tickets available, so if you want to go, you can order them through the Hollywood Bowl website.…
