...On The Lord of the Rings, director Peter Jackson was shooting all three films in the trilogy concurrently, and so for much of the time I was left alone with a pile that grew to two million feet of film. Some days I'd watch 20,000 to 30,000 feet of dailies (occasionally 50,000 or 60,000!). Though Peter likes to be intimately involved in editing decisions, during production I was rarely able to get his attention for more than a few hours at a time...More

Our French cousins over at Nemenoreen.com have gotten hold of som egreat images from the Extended DVD. See them here.

We all know there's a four-disc special edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring" due out in November, but for those of you that can't wait, this two-disc release will likely prove irresistible, especially as it ...............more

The actress says she found the French and Saunders version of the Fellowship Of The Ring a huge compliment.

Blanchett especially liked Jennifer Saunders' version..............more

Universal Intertactive released new screenshots for their upcoming Lord of the Rings game.Maybe landscape needs more detail but the sky and the fireworks special effects look very elegant.

See the screenshots in here: http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/3/1025785086

Lord of the Rings devotees will soon have the chance to tour the New Zealand locations where Peter Jackson shot his film trilogy. Spying a lucrative market, Glenorchy Airs is launching a three-hour "Trilogy Trails" tour which will jet the punters around the films' key locations. "They can visit Lothlorien, and view the scenery where the battle of Amon Hen took place," gushes Glenorchy spokesman Robert Rutherford. "They can smell the smells and see the sights that Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee felt."

More when we get it.

TheOneRing.net is proud to introduce its first EXCLUSIVE product offering. Thanks to our sponsorship with ........................more.

You can buy the new helm via Sideshow's site or via TORN, which will help support them. You can also see a review of one of the other helms and the medallions, by yours truly here.

Illuvatar has updated the photo section. Weathertop in The Fellowship of the Ring is now active. Addtionally the Misc Images category in the same section is also live.

Go look at his moth! :-)

The only live action Tolkien festival in the world! Leave the real world behind and enter a realm of mighty heroes. A realm of the fantastic where warrior maidens and grizzled veterans fight side by side with Elves and Orcs...Full Story

The "Lord of the Rings" films are the result of many peoples' labors, but some "L.O.T.R." collectibles have essentially been the product of a single individual, New York sculptor Patrick Pigott. Last year, Pigott crafted a set of four 12 oz. "Glass Goblets" sold at Burger King restaurants, as well as a quartet of "character replica" statues for Applause, L.L.C...Full Interview

Members who were promised that their names would appear in the credits of the first release of the LoTR: FoTR DVD are going to be disappointed:
"...there is a cost to making something bigger and better and this situation is no exception. The space needed to add a 19-minute musical score to the name scroll and the time required for Howard Shore to score and produce additional music -- means that neither space nor time was available to place the Charter Member name scroll on the first Theatrical Release DVD (due August 6th)..."
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We have procured some footage of Electronic Arts; The Lord of the Rings game.

Check out the download section in movies!!! It looks great.

Buy a 10 week rental card (rent 1 DVD/VHS per week for 10 weeks) for $25 and receive Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring DVD for free at BlockBuster. In stores only.
On the other hand, buy LOTR DVD at BestBuy.com for $20 and receive a $10 gift certificate...Check it Out

A well-thumbed copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings sitting underneath Robert Rutherford's desk says a lot.
It goes some way to explaining why his sightseeing company has started offering flights to visit areas used to create Middle-earth for the Peter Jackson film trilogy....Full Story

[Credit to TORN] John Rhys-Davies, who stars as Gimli in The Lord of the Rings' movie trilogy and on Decipher¹s The Lord of the Rings' Trading Card Game, will make an exclusive appearance at Origins on Saturday, July 6th in Columbus, Ohio, as the special guest of honor on the Decipher booth (#218). Convention-goers will have an opportunity to receive his autograph and participate in a Q&A with the actor. Decipher has made this exclusive opportunity free for all convention attendees...Full Story

It's a case of The Lord Of The Rings meets Jurassic Park.
Well, almost - Karori Wildlife Sanctuary and Miramar special-effects company Weta are talking about making replica extinct native animals for the sanctuary, ranging from giant moa to tiny frogs...Full Story

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has tentatively voted to shorten the Oscar calendar by a month, moving up the film industry's highest honors from late March to late February starting in 2004...Full Story

This is an article posted before the parade where McKellen comments on his open homosexuality:

"You don't always have to say things to have an impact," he told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Apparently the sight of me and my boyfriend holding hands at the Oscars ( news - web sites) quite caught people's eye. In regard to its impact, it was thought to be almost as good as an openly gay man getting an Oscar."

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Clad in a long white coat and waving the British flag, actor Sir Ian McKellen leaped from a silver convertible and raced to hug cheering fans during the city's annual gay pride parade...Full Story

The Downloads section is now open in Movies. Not a lot there but something very special, that I doubt you have seen. It is the new game from Electronic Arts for the Playstation 2 and other consoles. We have obtained some footage of it.

Check it out it looks awesome.........Elendilllllllllllllllllll!

So long ... it's been fun ... The Lord of the Rings stars got into some serious farewell partying at a Wellington bar last week.

After a pick-up filming involving several of the film trilogy's stars, including Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Elijah Wood and Sir Ian McKellen, film spokeswoman Claire Raskind yesterday confirmed that all had now left the country...Full Story

While his stay in Prague Sean Connery told a journalist that the role of Gandalf was offered to him but he denied because he didn´t understand the story with all this hobbits, elves and other characters. I still haven´t seen the movie but have heard that Ian McKellen did a good job and even have read the book probably.

Thanks to Her Der Ring

More filmmakers are now revisiting past works with director's cuts or special editions thanks to the theatrical success of a handful of such new versions and the rise of DVDs, whose large storage capacity opens options for refinements to the.............more

Note the Fellowship of the Ring information is near bottom of the article.

I thought I would share this site I was contacted about. It is very cool, they have used little miniatures to recreate the scenes from the book.

You can see the whole lot here.