Ben Milder, the young force behind the popular Entmoot message board, and Darth Tater (otherwise known as Joshua Truitt) have taken the fan Website concept a step further.
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Marton Csokas, the actor cast to play Celeborn in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings", has now been chosen to play a planetary leader in George Lucas' Episode II of the Star Wars saga. [more]

At least 100 New Zealand soldiers will soon be working on Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings", but the New Zealand Defense Force has been muffled by a more powerful force: ThreeFootSix Productions.
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Sean Bean talks to Sunday Times [more]

IGN Filmforce recently completed a four-part interview with Sir Ian McKellen. A few questions about Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" crept into the interview (thanks to Cirdan).
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The new Stuff news Web site is taking online Tolkien fandom by storm. They have carried many articles of interest to Tolkien fans who are closely watching events in New Zealand. Here is what we can glean from their archives....
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IGN has posted a full report covering the LOTR equipment New Line Cinema displayed at a recent trade show.

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All the fuss about eBay shutting down auctions and stunt people getting arrested in New Zealand has driven eager relatives of people employed on Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" productions to conducting private auctions by email.
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Not much seems to have been made of TheOneRing.Net's June 27 spy report from Super Ninja Spy Galadriel.
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The Company of the Ring (formerly known as "Tol Galen") has made public its RealAudio recording of the Radio New Zealand "Insight" program which discusses the economic impact that Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" three-film production is having on New Zealand. [more]

Or maybe not. There is no such thing as "Fantasy Geographic" magazine, but perhaps there should be. While travelling to Dragoncon and elsehwere, Michael Martinez was unable to post timely columns to the Tolkien and Middle-earth Topic at Suite101, so to help catch up he has posted an essay written last year.
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TheOneRing.Net has (at this writing) just posted additional information on the promised "LOTR trailer". November is not looking so promising after all. [more]

Tolkien-Movies.Com is attributing pictures of a stone column to Realm of the Ring (and either our server hasn't updated its cache, or Mathew Bass has scooped even Realm of the Ring with their own images).
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Realm of the Ring has posted a couple of pictures of what they believe to be an Elvish tent. [more]

In today's review of what's "hot" on the Web we find that many LOTR movie news sites are citing the warmed over fare being served up by Cinescape and Foxnews....
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We've been checking out other LOTR movie news sites and here is what we found this morning.... [more]

Tolkien fans can add a fourth commercial production of J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT to their detailed lists of stage adaptations running around the globe. A children's theater production will begin showing sometime in 2001 in Atlanta, GA.
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In a move intended to represent the group effort now going into maintaining the Web site (and to reflect the site's close association with reporting LOTR movie news), Tol Galen is now known as The Company of the Ring. [more]

Both Ringzone.Net and Herr Der Ringe have copiously transcribed an article with pictures from Horse and Pony Magazine.
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Apparently recognizing their value to the Tolkien movie news Web sites, Stuff has now created a special Lord of the Rings movie news section which is sure to be perused by thousands of fans around the world each day.
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The Evening Post, a New Zealand newspaper often mentioned on several Tolkien movie news sites, has now summarized the Cate Blanchett interview in E! Online's 'Force of Hobbit'. [more]

Like everyone else, we heard bits and pieces of news and rumors floating around the hallways at Dragoncon. Here is a quick roundup of some of the things we feel comfortable repeating.
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Michael Martinez will be releasing a history book about Tolkien's Middle-earth sometime in 2001. The book, offered to traditional publishers since 1999, has been hard to find a market for because Martinez 'does not have the proper credentials'.
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The Realm of the Ring is calling a statue located in the quarry with the Helm's Deep set "the guardian of Helm's Deep" (for lack of a better name). Who is he, really?
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We've just noticed that The Realm of the Ring now has its own domain, http://www.realmofthering.com/.
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Michael is still travelling and his Internet access is limited, but he managed to write a partial review of the Tolkien and Middle-earth track at Dragoncon for Suite101's Tolkien and Middle-earth topic.
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Brad Dourif and Karl Urban have been hugely popular at Dragoncon. The two actors, appearing in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings", are on hiatus from the movies (as the entire cast is). Fans were standing in the hallway outside the Tolkien and Middle-earth programming track, craning their necks to listen to the actors discuss their fealings about being in the films and their careers and future plans.

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The good folks at Tolkien Online have been posting audio files from the Tolkien and Middle-earth track on web site as arranged and authorized by Michael Martinez, the director of the programming track.

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Perhaps it's just because the winter break was coming on but E! Online's John Forde doesn't offer as many helpful hints about what's going as he usually does (but read the interview with Cate Blanchett anyway).
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Peter Jackson took time out of his busy schedule to pose for a picture in Counter Action magazine, a business publication based in New Zealand.
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We're not exactly a one-man operation, but Michael Martinez is pretty vital to the smooth functioning of most of Xenite.Org and he is leaving town for Dragoncon and a short vacation afterward. Updates to the LOTR movie news Web site and other parts of Xenite.Org, except for Xena Online Resources, will be sporadic over the next two weeks.
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James Cunningham, who won recognition at the Cannes film festival this past April, was hired to work on WETA's special effects projects for Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings". If this fact was announced on other Tolkien movie news sites, it slipped past Xenite.Org, and for that we apologize.
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How is that for sensationalistic yellow journalism? The new Stuff Web site is carrying an article from The Southland Times in New Zealand about the upcoming Air New Zealand Queenstown Winter Festival.
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Those of you who like to surf the Web in search of Tolkien movie news on your own will want to update your bookmarks and favorites folders. The Press Web site has gone down.
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Long-time rumor-hunting fans may recall that at the end of 1997 and in early 1998 a spate of rumors erupted from Australia about a possible Tolkien movie production being developed there. It turned out the rumors were spawned by the now well-known Hobbit On Stage puppet show.
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