Hey, here are some interesting eBay items that I found:

Painted Cave Troll Miniature (1 hour and 8 minutes!)

Piece of Bilbo's Waiscoat from the movie (1 hour and 42 minutes!)

Signed Cate Blanchett DVD (10 hours!)

If ya have any other interesting eBay items that you have found and would like share, just let me know.

“The Fellowship of the Ring” has been a thrilling adventure for the millions of kids and adults all around the world! Bid4sport now bring you this fantastic “Lord of the Rings” 10 x 7” “Billboard Poster” photo that is signed by 9 of the “Fellowship” cast and Liv Tyler. The star signings are Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Billy Boyd, Sean Bean, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan, and Orlando Bloom. This would be the ultimate piece of a memorabilia for a “lover of the Rings!” Don’t miss out! Beware! the Bidding is in pounds NOT dollars

Go and  place your bid here!

Thanks to Tolkien Online for the heads up!

The gathering appeared to be a typical summer barbecue. Neighbors watched guests in Erick Irvis' back yard toss around a Frisbee as he tended the grill. But rather than hot dogs and hamburgers, Irvis was grilling Black Angus ribs and dense pieces of organically raised bison.

On the table inside, instead of egg salad and coleslaw, sat platters and bowls filled with dishes of Middle Earth cuisine, 22 in all!

For the full story and bonus Middle- Earth style recipies go here! 

Well remember TORN posted some photos from The Two Towers. We have been sent some cleaned up versions with the rather large logo removed.

Enjoy and thanks to Zigo!

See them here.

A new section has been added to the official site. Some great desktops and information on the horses used in the film. Even a nice Shadowfax desktop.

Check it out at the official site here.

Loads of new Photos from the forthcoming range.

You can check them out in our own gallery here or at the Toybiz site.

We added our own as Toybiz have a  habit of posting images too early and then taking them down :-)

Just a little one but very nice. It is a scan from the Latest issue of White Dwarf magazine by Games Workshop.

Spoiler: See it here.

These ones are different from the popcorn boxes. Have a look here.

Thanks to Sylvadoc at Elbakin.com

Some details of their forthcoming releases for The Two Towers game.

See the front and back. Thank to Grima at Orthanc'sWorshop.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a single-player action-adventure game based on the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic novel "The Lord of the Rings" and featuring Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn as playable characters.

Now, exclusively on the Xbox™ video game system, Tolkien fans have the opportunity to explore Middle-earth in the Hi-Definition Television format. As players travel through the peaceful lands of the Shire to the darkness of Moria protecting the One Ring from the Dark Lord Sauron, they will be immersed in HDTV's lifelike ...........see the rest and the images here.

We have added a news search and advanced news search. Hopefully you will find these handy. There is also an advanced search with more options. They are just below the main navigation.

War of the Ring Team

This past May 25-27, four Decipher employees set out to break the Guinness World Record for "Card Playing Marathon" using The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game. It was an idea born on the morning of Thursday the 23rd and realized 48 hours later.

Read more at Decipher

Yesterday, Musso, a self-taught plane builder, was preparing to send a working replica World War I plane, the Nieuport 24 bis, to New Zealand. The silver plane with red white and blue markings was purchased by Peter Jackson, director of the hugely successful film, "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings," which was released last year.

Read all about it here.

Tolkien Online has put up four gorgeous new The Two Towers advertising graphics, which they guess will be used for in-theater marketing.

Check them out at Tolkienonline

Ian Mckellen updates his journal with some great stuff! From marketing stradegies, the Paris TTT premier, to leaking that it's now 40 minutes worth of extra footage on the Extended Release of FOTR in November.

Get the whole scoop

The IMDB news Web site reported a rumor that Peter Jackson's upcoming film adaptation of the second Lord of the Rings book will play up a love triangle among key characters. The upcoming sequel film, The Two Towers, is rumored to heighten the romantic tension among Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Arwen (Liv Tyler) and a character new to the film series, Eowyn (Miranda Otto), the site reported.

Citing an anonymous source, the site reported that there will be "plenty of tension between the three." The Two Towers opens Dec. 13.

Thanks to Sci-Fi Wire.

United® Cutlery has announced that the Sting™ scabbard will be released later this year. Now you'll be able to get the officially licensed scabbard ............more.

You can also now order the miniature swords, these are very cool and ideal for those on a smaller budget. :-) Read more.

Thanks to Blades by Brown for the Update.

Thanks to TheOneRing.net:

"MovieDan82 reports that that one of the MPAA committee who watched a print of The Two Towers last week in order to give it a certification (it will be PG-13) is claiming that not only is it better than Fellowship, but is "The best movie I have ever seen."  Most interestingly, he claims the running time is below Fellowship, at around 163 minutes."

Thanks again to TheOneRing.net for sharing this information!

"............The Fellbeast, in films II and III, which was painted by me, Mel James and Darren Bedwell is far more dragon like though. I think you will be scared to death! It is a monster!!!.."

Read more of this interesting interview with Miles Bellas, oneof the digital artists who worked on The Lord of the Rings, over at TolkienOnline.

Upper Deck has made some Lord of the Rings bobble-heads.  They look really neat!  The first series includes the Fellowship of nine.  They won't be release until November.

Get on over there and check it out!

I found an interesting magazine cover from Coming Soon!  It has Gandalf the White on the front.  You can read the full story and see the pic right here.

Editors note: You can see the rest of the Scans from this magazine here, from our feature back in August.

How did Miranda Otto prepare for her role as Eowyn?

I cut out every line of dialogue Eowyn spoke and looked at everything that was said about her......

Check the full story here.

Thanks to Coming Soon!

Do you want to save Middle Earth from the evil hordes of Orcs and their Dark Lord? Or do you want to enslave the entire land for yourself with your brutal troops of Urak-Hai? Well, now you can do both! Last year Games Workshop released their Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring game and are only two months away from releasing their Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers game! To learn more about these fantastic models for table top skirmishes click here.