Category: General News

Time Warner, who own New Line Cinema, are putting together a bid of nearly $5 billion for film studio MGM. As this article at Reuters.com points out, Time Warner have made nearly $2.9 billion in ticket sales for the 3 LotR movies but, “there is no fourth Tolkien film to be made. Unless, that is,…

Today is Liv Tyler’s birthday. She was born in Portland, Maine, on July 1st, 1977 and is 27 today. You can read her cast bio here. In CoE’s gallery there are pictures of Liv here and of Liv as Arwen here. Happy Birthday Liv!

Brian Sibley has just launched his official website. He reveals that he will be appearing on the “extras” on the RotK EE DVD, there’s news about his forthcoming books which include; “a final definitive, lavishly illustrated, book about the film trilogy” and some great pictures in the Wellywood and Wellington gallery including one of PJ…

Have you ever wondered when your favorite star from Lord of the Rings will be on TV? Now you can know! The CoE TV Guide will list almost all of the shows featuring actors and actresses from Lord of the Rings, and what channel their show will be on (US only). All times EST.

There’s a change to the date of The South Bank Show feature on a year in Sir Ian McKellen’s life. The programme will now air on Tuesday 29th June at 11pm on UK TV channel ITV. Shooting for this programme began in June 2003 and covered re-shoots for LotR and the promotional world tour for…

David Salo, the Tolkien linguist who worked on the Elvish in the recent films, has written a new book concerning Sindarin, called “A Gateway To Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings”. It is due to be released this October; more details can be found at…

Tickets are still available for the Houston performances of the LotR symphony on 1st and 2nd July. The performances will be conducted by Alexander Mickelthwate. For further information and online booking go to the Houston Symphony website here.

“Test the Nation”, which recently aired on TV in New Zealand, tested several groups of people including; Tolkien fans, real estate agents, cricket fans and taxi drivers. According to a review at Stuff, the show confirmed stereotypes, including that Tolkien fans are of superior intellect. However, the reviewer does comment that the IQ test used,…

The latest update to Sir Ian’s offical site is to the e-post section where he answers a number of questions. These include who he thinks would win in a fight between Gandalf and Magneto!

Ted Nasmith official site has updated news about the new expanded illustrated Silmarillion and shows us its beautiful cover, here. The painting is called White Ships from Valinor and Ted Nasmith says: It was very gratifying to finally do this painting, after identifying it as a possible theme some 8 years ago.