>> TheBostonChannel.com has talked to LOTR visual effects maker Jim Rygiel. | here |

>> PRWeb.com reports : "DME Partnership launches the UK's only Lord of the Rings Tour - 'Destination Middle-Earth' a full day coach tour from Central London guided by Tolkien experts. Coach tour visits Oxford, Warwickshire & Birmingham and shows the locations that inspired parts of Middle-Earth such as The Two Towers, The Shire & Saurons Temple." | here |

>> Some more articles about Andy Serkis preparing for the role of King Kong. | Zap2It | News.com.au | The Sun |

>> The Two Towers Extended DVD Edition won seven awards at the Annual DVD Awards ! | Hollywood Reporter | Yahoo.com |

>> Anna sent us these links to a "dress-up" game. | Orlando Bloom | Liv Tyler |

>> Andy Serkis is reportedly preparing for the role of King Kong with gorillas in Rwanda. | Yahoo.com | NZ Herald |

>> NZ Herald reports : "The big three Hollywood stars of Peter Jackson's $200 million King Kong are already in awe of the project before the cameras roll next month." | here | Read the same story : | Stuff |

>> Stuff reports : "The makers of King Kong have been hitting antique and art deco stores throughout the North Island to bring the Wellington-based film set to life. Antique and second-hand dealers from Waikato to Wellington have been doing a roaring trade as Peter Jackson's production team scours stores for clothing and furniture covering the 1880s to the 1930s."

>> The Sun reports : "Orlando Bloom's pooch strains at the leash after spotting another mutt while out walkies in Hollywood." | here |

>> We made a promise yesterday, faithful Ringers. We have scanned 2 more pictures : | Aragorn | Legolas |

>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Billy Boyd, who turns 36 today !

>> We have told you about Orlando Bloom riding a bicycle on the set of Elizabethtown already, but we liked the title of this other article so much that we couldn't help it : "Now it's Orlando Vroom !" | here |

>> AICN has linked to a behind the scenes clip from Orlando Bloom's Elizabethtown.

>> Anna sent us some links for the Danish fans : Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis lending their voices to Flushed Away | here | and Saul Zaentz sueing New Line. | here |

>> Ian McKellen has updated his official website with new LOTR e-posts. | here |

>> French Ringers, try your chance to win the dvd of Ned Kelly, with Orlando Bloom.

>> We have scanned four new pictures from The Return Of The King. | Witch King | Arwen | Aragorn | Legolas | We'll give you a couple of new eye candies tomorrow. Stay tuned !

>> The Extended DVD Edition of The Two Towers gets six nominations in the 7th Annual DVD Awards with Leonard Maltin. The 6 categories are Blockbuster Theatrical, Authoring Design, Menu Design, Video Presentation, Audio Presentation and PC Support (the Rom Features). | here and here |

>> Contactmusic.com reports : "Orlando Bloom has beaten Usher and American Olympic hero Michael Phelps to the top of a new Internet hunks poll." | here |

>> Katherine aka arwentheelf02 wrote us to tell that Lost, a new show on ABC starring Dominic Monaghan, is going to premiere on September 22 - Hobbit Day ! Go here and look for the Fall 2004 Primetime schedule.

>> Zap2It.com reports : "Sean Astin may have played a lowly hobbit in the Lord of the Rings films, but he'll be able to lord it over the 2004 Angelus Awards Student Film Festival in the fall. The 33-year-old actor has been named Honorary Chair for the ninth annual film festival's awards ceremony to be held on Saturday, Oct. 23 in Hollywood." | here |

>> Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis will lend their voices to Flushed Away, a DreamWorks cartoon comedy. "McKellen voices the story's antagonist, a villainous frog, while Serkis plays his hench-rat, Spike." | here and here |

>> Hellomagazine.com reports : "Orlando Bloom was photographed taking a spin on a baby motorcycle on the set of his latest flick, Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown. And he even showed off his riding skills by pulling a wheelie on the tiny vehicle." | here |

>> Joblo.com has posted the onesheet for The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, that stars Cate Blanchett. | here |

>> Anna reports that Bandits with Cate Blanchett will be aired on the Danish channel TV3 on Friday, August 27, at 21:00. She also informed us about this review on The Purifiers with Dominic Monaghan. | here |

>> Ic theWharf reports : "Sir Ian McKellen worked his wizarding magic on the Wharf's docks this week. The Narrow Street resident, who played Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, turned Great Uncle Bulgaria for the day as he joined scores of Wharfers cleaning Limekiln Dock, by Canary Riverside." | here |

>> Liv Tyler is on the cover of the September issue of the French magazine Glamour.

>> Massive Software announced 'Massive 2.0', a new version of its system, that enables the generation of 3D animation in real time with Massive Live. | here |

>> Sean Astin will reportedly lend his voice to the upcoming epic Vietnam videogame saga Men Of Valor. | PR Newswire | TVG Forums | Elitetv.com |

>> Orlando Bloom, who is currently filming Elizabethtown, spends much time with his co-star Kirsten Dunst. | Ananova | Digital Spy | contactmusic.com | Teen Hollywood |

>> Orlando Bloom will attend the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival : "Bloom, the elfin archer Legolas from the Rings trilogy, will be here for his latest film Haven." | here |

>> BBC.co.uk reports : "Sir Ian McKellen was at the premiere of 'Stage Beauty' last night. He told Radio 1 that Peter Jackson had offered him a part in "King Kong" but he's too busy preparing for his role as Widow Twanky in panto at the Old Vic." Pictures : | Wire Image + 2 + 3 | Film Magic | Getty Images |

>> Contactmusic.com reports : "Sir Ian McKellen is often ignorant about the characters he agrees to play - because he can't be bothered to do the proper research." | here |

>> An article about Dominic Monaghan's The Purifiers. | here |

>> Media Guardian reports : "Digital experts at the BBC and in New Zealand are working on technology from video games and the awesome scenes in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy to create TV weather which 'looks exactly like the real thing.'" | here |

>> An article about the LOTR Exhibit at Milford's Museum of Science. | here |

>> Stuff reports : "An unprecedented response to a questionnaire on The Return of the King has meant an international study on media coverage and audience reaction to Peter Jackson's film will take several more months to complete. About 25,000 people around the world – more than double the number expected – completed a detailed questionnaire available on the Internet about the film." | here |

>> Yahoo! reports : "Thanks to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, New Line leads all mini majors and independents since domestic box office reporting began." | here |

>> Natty sent us this link to some LOTR Twist'em figures. | here |

>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY to John Howe, who turns 47 today !

>> Contactmusic.com reports : "Miranda Otto's costume was so heavy during her stint in the Lord Of The Rings movies, she had to get the help of an osteopath to return her back to its original state." She reportedly said : "It took me a number of trips to the osteopath to click things back into place. I have one of those bodies that when you really punish it, things tend to go in different directions. It was gruelling for me because the costume, which was real chain mail, weighed about 20 pounds." | here |

>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Alan Lee, who turns 57 today and another HAPPY BIRTHDAY to John Noble, who is 56 today !

>> NZ Herald reports : "Hamilton-based design and printing company Admark has picked up a silver medal at a prestigious New York festival for the Lord of the Rings graphics on an Air New Zealand Boeing 747." | here |

>> Stuff reports that "Peter Jackson's King Kong does not start shooting till next month, but already there are "reports" that American comedian Jack Black has been sighted in Wellington." | here |

>> IGN has got a review on some Lord Of The Rings products. | here |

>> Karl Urban has just announced that he will attend the RingCon 2004, that is held in Bonn, Germany (October 29-31). John Noble, Craig Parker and Mark Ferguson are also part of the confirmed guests. | here |

>> Yahoo! Movies has posted the trailer for The Life Aquatic, with Cate Blanchett.

>> "The studio behind the LOTR movie trilogy is being sued for $20 million by movie and music mogul Saul Zaentz in regard to alleged unpaid royalties." | Fox23 | Yahoo.com | NZ Herald | Stuff |

>> LOTRGuide.com posted the final part of their exclusive interview with Howard Shore. | here |

>> Yahoo.com has posted 3 pictures of Sean Astin posing with his mother actress Patty Duke as she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. | 1 | 2 | 3 | More : | Globe Photos | Wire Image |

>> Jack Black said that Peter Jackson's King Kong is not a comedy. | here |

>> Another article about Ian McKellen voicing Zebedee in the movie version of The Magic Roundabout and another one about Cate Blanchett, who condemns the beauty industry's obsession with youth.

>> Yahoo! reports that "fans of the music of Academy Award-winning Howard Shore will have two opportunities to interact with the composer during the Chicago performances of "The Lord of the Rings Symphony : A Symphony in Six Movements" on October 8 and 9 at the Auditorium Theatre. Mr. Shore will host a 45-minute question & answer session prior to each performance from the Auditorium Theatre Stage." | here |

>> The Movie Market websites have got an AMAZING collection of LOTR photos that you cannot miss ! Ready to make your bank unhappy ? | France | UK | Germany |

>> In December, Switzerland's big screens will show The Ring Thing, a parody of The Lord Of The Rings. | here |

>> Ian McKellen has signed up to provide the voice for the magical character Zebedee in a CGI animated movie version of the kids TV classic The Magic Roundabout. | here |

>> LOTRGuide.com informs the fans that "tickets to the New England Premiere of Howard Shore's triumphant "Lord of the Rings Symphony" featuring the Hartford Symphony Orchestra are on sale now." | here |

>> NZ Herald reports : "She might have just signed a lucrative contract with a Japanese skin care company, but that doesn't make actor Cate Blanchett a fan of the beauty business. "I'm always a cynical, sceptical person and I think that women and their vulnerabilities are played on in the cosmetic industry," Blanchett said." | here |

>> An article about Orlando Bloom's next movie Kingdom Of Heaven. | here |

>> Seattlepi.com writes : "According to E!online, the recently single Miss Dunst (she broke up with Jake Gyllenhaal a couple weeks ago) has been suspiciously cuddly with her Elizabethtown co-star, Orlando Bloom. The only problem is that Mr. Bloom is not oh-so-single. He has been linked to Blue Crush actress Kate Bosworth for at least six months. While reps aren't talking, one insider says, 'Oh, come on. I've seen them together. Something's going on.'" | here |

>> Chud.com has posted the possible teaser poster for Peter Jackson's King Kong, that was seen at the film exhibitors conference in Queensland Australia. | here |

>> The German Herr-der-Ringe-film.de has opened Ardapedia, a Tolkien encyclopedia.

>> Playbill.com reports : "Plans for the most expensive show ever to be staged in the West End are progressing towards an opening night in October 2005." | here |

>> Sean Bean made a star appearance at Sheffield's Handsworth Recreation Ground to open a fair to raise cash to improve the park's facilities. | here |

>> Orlando Bloom is in the new issue of the French magazine Magic Academy.

>> Some reviews on Miranda Otto's Danny Deckchair. | USA Today | NY Daily |

>> Pictures of Viggo Mortensen and his son Henry, shopping in Soho. | LFI |

>> Ian Holm confessed he would love to be Bilbo Baggins again in a further adaptation of The Hobbit : "That would be fantastic, there has been talk about doing the Hobbit and I know that Peter would love to do it but there are some legal issues with two studios but once they get that handled I would love go back and do it, but that will be a few years from now, you know Peter is working on King Kong." | here |

>> Sorry about the lack of updates yesterday. It's a hard task to do alone, but you can contribute to this page and send us news, links, airdates, magazine alert, well anything. Thanks for your help.

>> According to Contactmusic.com, "Movie heart-throb Orlando Bloom decided to become an actor because he wanted to be like David Hasselhoff and Mr T. The Lord Of The Rings star loved watching 80s TV shows Knight Rider and The A-Team when he was growing up, and cites them as the reason he became a thespian. The 27-year-old says, 'As soon as I realised the heroes on The A-Team and Knight Rider weren't real, I decided I wanted to act because I thought I'd love to be any number of those guys.'" | here | You may remember, a couple of years ago that was Christopher Reeve's Superman, who had made Orlando be an actor.

>> DVDAnswers.com has got details on the new Matrix Collection, released in December. Two editions will be available, including one with a Neo mini-bust. Shame it's not one of Agent Smith aka Hugo Weaving. | here | Warner has announced the region 4 release of Troy, that stars Orlando Bloom and Sean Bean. | here |

>> NZHerald.co.nz reports : "A British opera singer-turned-actor [Lobo Chan] is the latest to join Peter Jackson's $200 million King Kong, which starts shooting in Wellington next month." Same story : | here |

>> Stuff reports that Film editor Jamie Selkirk "was honoured at an investiture ceremony at Wellington's Government House yesterday as a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. The award recognised Mr Selkirk's services to film." | here |

>> TheZReview.co.uk writes : "Cate Blanchett and Dustin Nguyen are to star in Little Fish for director Rowan Woods and writer Jacqueline Perske. he film follows Blanchett as a former drug addict trying to rebuild her life. Nguyen will take on the role of Blanchett's ex-lover, a onetime druggie-turned-stockbroker. Martin Henderson, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill also star in the film, set in the Little Saigon section of Sydney's suburbs. Porchlight Films produce."

>> Stuff reports : "When Ian Brodie first approached director Peter Jackson with an idea to write a book based on locations from the Lord of the Rings movie sets around New Zealand, he wasn't expecting to be given the green light." | read |

>> Still from Stuff.co.nz : "Peter Jackson - in the midst of preparing to shoot his version of King Kong in Wellington - said he felt "an enormous sadness" over the death of Fay Wray, star of the original 1933 film." | here |

>> IC Wales website writes : "A new blockbuster starring Lord of the Rings star Sean Bean has snubbed Wales to film on the Isle of Man." | here |

>> An article on the filming of Orlando Bloom's Elizabethtown. | here |

>> CalgarySun.com talks about Viggo Mortensen. | here |

>> LOTRGuide.com has posted another part of their interview with Howard Shore. The composer talks about the LOTR Symphony and ROTK. | here |

>> Yahoo! reports : "The Olympic rings may be about join the Lord of the Rings in fueling a boom in the ancient but hardly fashionable sport of archery. Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom and the bowman elves who invaded the screen in cinema's version of the Tolkien trilogy has had youngsters all of a quiver; archery clubs around the world are reporting a surge in recruits." | here |

>> Howard Shore will compose the score Webzen's blockbuster multiplayer online role-playing Game Sun. The original soundtrack will be distributed for sale globally. | here |

>> 1933's King Kong actress Fray Wray has died, she was 96. | here and here |

>> Yahoo.com has posted a picture of Rob Lowe reaching to tag Sean Astin during the 'Hollywood Stars Game' before the Los Angeles Dodgers played the Philadelphia Phillies at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 7, 2004. | here |

>> Five ways to enjoy the Lord Of The Rings Exhibit in Boston. | here |

>> Moviehole.net has interviewed Naomi Watts. There is a little part on Peter Jackson's King Kong. | here |

>> Contactmusic.com reports : "Viggo Mortensen was so ferocious in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy battle sequences because he channeled his baseball frustration into fight scenes. The actor is a devoted New York Mets fan, after becoming enamoured with the team in 1969 when he arrived in America, and he made the mistake of having the 2000 Subway Series between his team and rivals the New York Yankees videotaped for him in New Zealand." | here |

>> Daily Record reports : "Christopher Lee will be in Scotland later this year to film a movie based on the Borders common ridings. The 82-year-old Lord of the Rings star will appear in May Day, which is about Pagan cults that turn the ridings into fear festivals. Vanessa Redgrave and Sean Astin will also star in the movie." | here |

>> LOTRGuide.com talks about the LOTR events during this year's Dragon Con. | here |

>> Stuff reports : "Peter Jackson's movie King Kong, which begins shooting in Wellington next month, will be a reunion of the director's dream team from The Lord of The Rings. King Kong's crew includes cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, production designer Grant Major, art director Dan Hennah, conceptual designer Alan Lee, Weta special effects whizz Richard Taylor, visual effects director Alex Funke, visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri and composer Howard Shore."

>> SI.com interviewed with Viggo Mortensen for the magazine's Q&A this week. | here |

>> More than half of UK youngsters think Gandalf or Horatio Hornblower led the English fleet to victory over the Spanish Armada, a survey found. | independent.co.uk | Yahoo! | Guardian unlimited | Belfast Telegraph | Yorkshire Post |

>> Contactmusic.com reports : "Ian McKellen once got rid of a persistent stalker by ignoring the disturbed individual." | here |

>> Naomi Watts talks about Peter Jackson's King Kong remake. | here |

>> Massive Software announced it is streamlining the generation of crowds moving en masse, arena spectators and large-scale digital armies with breakthrough Ready-to-Run Agents. | here |

>> We've scanned the Orlando Bloom poster from the new issue of the magazine One. | here | The mag also contains an interview with Elijah Wood, two pages on Orlando, a two-page article on Troy and another two-page article on the LOTR Trilogy.

>> Another article about the LOTR Exhibition in Boston. | here |

>> Rachel Weisz will be replacing Cate Blanchett in The Fountain. | here |

>> New Zealand Herald talks about Ian Brodie's The Lord of The Rings Location Guidebook Extended Edition. | here |

>> Contactmusic.com writes : "Sean Astin is surrounded by so much confusion about the true identity of his biological father, he now regards four men as his dads." | here |

>> According to sfgate.com, Eowyn "highlighted the predicament heroines face in action and science fiction films." | here |

>> Sean Bean is reportedly in talks to star in "Touchstone Pictures/Imagine Entertainment's highflying Hitchcockian thriller Flight Plan, opposite Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard." | Yahoo | Hollywood Reporter | Ananova |

>> PR Newswire reports : "Detroiters will take a musical journey to the realm of Middle Earth at 8 p.m. Saturday, October 16 at the Fox Theatre as more than 200 musicians and singers take the stage with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a spectacular performance of Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings Symphony : A Symphony in Six Movements." | here | Same news : | here |

>> Orlando Bloom's The Calcium Kid is released on DVD on August 30, 2004. | here |

>> Orlando Bloom was voted 2nd in Company magazine's annual 100 Sexiest Men poll.

>> LOTRGuide.com has got more to tell and to show from the Comic-Con in San Diego, including the Mouth of Sauron bust, the statue of Gothmog on Warg... | here |

>> Another The Art Of book will be released in October 25, in UK. Gary Russel's The Art Of The Lord Of The Rings is about the whole Trilogy. | here |

>> Stuff.co.nz reports : "A 10-metre-high wall of King Kong-sized building blocks has gone up to create a backdrop for Peter Jackson's latest NZ$200 million movie." | here |

>> Paramount Home Entertainment officially announced the collector's edition of Deep Impact which starred Elijah Wood. | here |

>> AICN has posted an interview with Billy Boyd and David Wenham about the ROTK EE. | here | MAJOR SPOILERS !

>> Orlando Bloom is on the cover of the new French magazine One. | here |

>> An article about on the LOTR Exhibition in Boston. | here |

>> Orlando Bloom's mother made him realize the extent of his fame. He told The Sun : "The first time I knew I was famous was when my mum told me she had flown to New Zealand in a plane with my face on the side." | here |

>> William Hurt and Ed Harris are in negotiations to join Viggo Mortensen in the cast of A History of Violence. | Yahoo! | ComingSoon.net | Hollywood Reporter |

>> LOTRGuide.com has posted more from their interview with Howard Shore. | here |

>> Ian McKellen's official website has updated with new LOTR e-posts. | here |

>> As usual, we've got a new opening picture. You can see all the old ones here !

>> Sunday Herald talked about Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd's movie. "They want to play themselves in a comedy about two inept Brits on a road trip around America." | here |

>> TOR.n has got photos and reviews on the LOTR Exhibition in Boston.