Hello everyone im sorry I havent updated for a while but Ill get back to it soon.

Happy Hobbit from CoE just made this really good banner have a look!:

post by <whittyb> on <12.10.02>

Hello people of the world!

I found this pic and I thought it was heaps funny:

Oh well heres the news LOL:

Oh yeah the best site for the new Harry Potter movie pics is here!:

http://www.latinoreview.com/moviereviews/2002/hp2cos/hp2cosimages.html?id=13350

'Harry Potter' ban voted down 
 

From NewsOK.com:

Several towns around the nation have seen protests of libraries' stocking the "Harry Potter" books. One school board in Oklahoma was asked this week to ban the series, but voted to keep the books on its shelves.
Guymon school board members voted Monday to retain the books after a hearing requested by a parent who claimed the books about a young wizard glamorize witchcraft.

"(The board) felt it is primarily a parental issue so each parent should make the decision on whether they want their children to read that," Superintendent Bob Neal said.

Full Story

Harry Potter Coins Go On Sale New coins celebrating the release of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets have gone on sale.

The coins, made by Pobjoy Mint, will only be legal tender on the Isle Of Man.

Pobjoy released special coins last year to commemorate the film version of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.

The coin designs depict six favourite scenes from the new film. They include: Dobby visits Harry in the Hospital Wing, Harry and Ron return to The Burrow, and Harry and Ron meet Aragog in the Forbidden Forest.

The coins are available to buy from www.pobjoy.com.

Full Story: Ananova.com

More pictures
The Leaky Cauldron has once again obtained more new pictures:

Harry on a broomstick
Basilisk playset
Second movie poster

There are also two more pics that originally appeared on MPZ:
The Greenhouse
Dumbledore's office

post by <whittyb> on <9.10.02>

Hello everyone!

I havent been doing that much updating lately but my friend Eldir (nickname) has a great new site and I throughly recommend you go have a look!:

And for today's new news! :

No book this year!

 Harry Potter has cast a spell over the recent fortunes of Bloomsbury but, for the first time in five years, Britain’s last remaining stock market-listed book publisher is without a new instalment of the boy wizard’s adventures.

Its chief executive Nigel Newton yesterday confirmed that the fifth of JK Rowling’s phenomenally successful books – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix –would not appear before the end of the year.

“Joanne is happily writing away, but the new Harry Potter will not form part of our 2002 financial year,” he said. “The publication date of the fifth book will be announced after it has been delivered.” Although there is no suggestion that Rowling will not complete her seven-book deal, the absence of Bloomsbury’s annual banker has unnerved some investors.

Always Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola will launch a consumer promotion tied to the Nov. 15 release of Warner Bros. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" while also continuing its Reading is Fundamental (RIF) literacy efforts.

The "Catch the Golden Snitch and Win" promotion, to run Oct. 14-Nov. 22, will center around collectible game cards enclosed in multi-packs of Coca-Cola Classic and caffeine free Coca-Cola. Consumers who find the Golden Snitch (an integral part of Potter's favorite game Quidditch) card can win a trip to London as well as receive $5 movie certificates.

Intervew with HP Games wizard
TV Week has a short interview with Derek Proud, who is leading the development of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets video games in the UK.

How does it feel to be working on a character so precious to kids?
"It's a big challenge, but we're confident we're making games that fans of all ages will love."

How much involvement does JK Rowling have with the games?
"She has final approval on all that we do, and has also given us lots of extra fiction that is not in the books or the films."

Is Quidditch included?
"We have an entire team working on the Quidditch aspect of the game! We have refined the Seeker experience to be much more dynamic and fun."

The game is coming out on seven different platforms. Will they all be out at once?
"Yes, they will all be released with the film, which is out on November 28."

Largest Lego Hagrid in the world built
The MetroWest Daily News has the story:

Lego fans young and old helped construct the largest Lego model of Harry Potter character, Hargrid, at the Natick Mall this weekend. Children used mallets and hammered into place the small Lego pieces making 2-by-4-inch modular bricks to give to master builders Pete Donner and Erik Varszegi.

Donner and Varszegi, who work for Lego Systems Inc., America's division of Lego Company based in Enfield, Conn., used more than 2,500 bricks of brown, yellow, black, red and gray built by children to create the larger-than-life image of Harry Potter's friend. Some of brick builders were longtime members of the Lego Club, while others were out shopping with their parents and wanted to join the fun.

And thats it for now!

post by <whittyb> on <2.10.02>

Konichiwa!

I hope your all keeping well. For all you people on holidays, give me an email and tell me what you've been doing. I went to a theme park yesterday.

I found this really good Harry Potter RGP site:

You can send me an OWL on that site (I go by the name of whittyb)

And for todays news:

'Harry Potter' expected to sell big 

EA's hit machine will turn out a number of titles during the season, including new games in the "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" franchises as well as an online version of the best-selling PC game of all time, "The Sims."

But also EA was aware that a hit, in the end, is completely dependent on the whims of the audience: "This is no different than a Broadway play or Hollywood."

Harry Potter 2 outselling the first movie 

Hey everybody! I'm back and posting again!!!

From Ananova.com:

Tickets for the new Harry Potter film are outselling the first one.

Fans have been able to buy tickets for Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets since Friday.

A spokeswoman for Odeon Cinemas told Ananova so far the second film is proving to be slightly more popular than the first.

Over the weekend Odeon sold over 17,500 tickets for the new movie compared to just over 16,000 for Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone last year.

The new Harry Potter film is released in the UK on November 15.

post by <whittyb> on <1.10.02>

Yay! Its October and then next month and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets will be out!

And to celebrate i'm putting up this fake 5th Harry Potter book (The Order Of The Phoenix) Which you can only access fro this link:

Click here to read the fake Order Of The Phoenix!

Also the Harry Potter section has been updated with some more Harry Potter movie two pictures and i've got some really funny parody posters in the Harry Potter section to (for people who dont and do like Harry Potter!)

And! Ive updated the Tolkiens Picture Gallery with some parody pictures of LOTR!

On CoE someone posted about this site that tells you what kind of Lord Of The Rings Fan you are I got:

So check it out at http://quizilla.com/users/randomhobbit/quizzes/

Also the Harry Potter has been updated with the second movie pictures!

Yesterday I saw the movie Lilo And Stich and for a kids movie it was pretty good!

And just to warn everyone the official Harry Potter site harrypotter.com has updated and has added a whole new section!!!!!

post by <whittyb> on <30.9.02>

I just got this new OWL (ordinary wizard level) its at the bottom of this page.

Ok for the news (the first bit of news is the best!):

Harry Potter film to have preview screenings 

Harry Potter fans will get the chance to see the new film early.

It will have special preview screenings on November 8, 9 and 10 as well as the 14.

The film is not officially released until November 15.

The UK premiere of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets will take place at the Odeon Leicester Square on November 3.

Odeon have also announced it will be dedicating 228 screens to the film once it goes on general release.

Snowdonia backdrop for PoA movie?
Maybe, maybe. More from icLiverpool:

SOME of Harry Potter's magic could be coming to North Wales.

The Daily Post has discovered that location manager for the new block-buster The Prisoner of Azkaban has spent a week in Snowdonia to check on possible set venues.

...Jayne Wainwright, of the Tyn-y-Coed Hotel, Capel Curig, which has played host to many of the Tomb Raider 2 production team currently in North Wales said they had talked freely in the bar about returning to Snowdonia in January to work on the film adaptation of JK Rowling's third best-selling book.

Last night, a Warner Brothers spokesman refused to confirm or deny the Snowdonia location.
 

New CoS Footage from E3
Wow! iHarrypotter has got a link to a never before seen footage of the CoS games from E3:

Chamber of Secrets video game footage! Shown at E3 this year.

http://www.bonusweb.cz/download/trailery/harrypotter2-e3video.html

The web page isn't in English, but you can download the trailer simply by scrolling down to where it says DOWNLOAD and clicking on either the low or hi-res version. After that i small widow that says "zaradit se do fonty" will appear..right click on it and select "save target as" to start download. May take a little time to get started because the servers can get kinda full. enjoy.

Wide Screen DVD in Australia
When the DVD version of the first movie came out, the unlucky Australians had to settle without the wide screen version. However, due to demand, Warner Brothers has finally decided to release a widescreen version of the DVD in Aussie, due out on October 23rd.

Read more at ezyDVD!

Reports of banned books down, say libraries 

NEW YORK (AP) -- As the American Library Association marks its 21st annual "Banned Books Week," the organization is running low on actual bans to report.

...

The ALA reported 448 challenges in 2001, compared to more than 900 in 1981. Krug says for every complaint the ALA learns about, there are likely four or five others.

The books most often criticized have varied little in recent years. The "Harry Potter" series, which some Christians have attacked for its themes of wizardry and magic, tops this year's list. Also included are such longtime targets as J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," both cited for "offensive language," and Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," for language, racism and sexual content.

Read the full article on CNN.com

Theres alot of news isn't there!

Also the all great Eärwen has made another banner for me:

remember if you add my banner to your site ill put your site on mine so everyone can see it !!!

post by <whittyb> on <27.9.02>

Hello everyone!

Thanks to my CoE friend Eärwen, there are now banners that you can post on your site!

(please give me an email at whittyb@optusnet.com.au and ill add your link or banner for your site onto mine to say thanks)

And for today's news:

Chamber of Secrets pictures!
Latino Review has got 28 new pictures from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!

Click here to see the new pics

Muggles missing from the new OED
The Telegraph reports:

"Asylum seekers" and "sex and shopping" are among phrases that have entered the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary for the first time, along with the word "Jedi" from the Star Wars films.

The first new edition in nearly a decade of the short version of the English language guide appears today with 3,500 new entries.

Tony Blair is immortalised with "Blairism" and "New Labour", while "Millennium Dome" is also featured.

...There are also 500 new quotations. Among the writers whose literary citations appear for the first time are Tom Clancy and Nick Hornby, Helen Fielding and J K Rowling, creator of Harry Potter.

Although other new words from science fiction have made it - such as "Klingon", evil aliens in Star Trek, and "Tardis", Doctor Who's spaceship - words coined for the Harry Potter books are still too new to appear.

...But "muggle" - her made-up word for people who are not wizards - is still listed only as an early 20th century American slang term for a marijuana cigarette.

Oh well got to go!

For me tomorrow are holidays!

post by <whittyb> on <26.9.02>

Hello everyone, hope your all well!

I've added the movie script for The Fellowship Of the Ring which is on the navigation on the right.

And here's some news:

The official site of LOTR has added some unseen Clips that weren't in the movie so check it out now!

A New CoS (Harry Potter and the Chamber Of sectrets) commercial shown last night!

I was recording the premiere of "Smallville" just in case they showed another HPCoS commercial, and the did! It was short, and fast, but they showed a bit of Knockturn Alley. They also showed the Basilisk, and it looked so cool!! Much better than that picture awhile ago. Way cooler! And it showed that new picture that's just recently been going around, that they thought was Myrtle. It looked like harry to me, and he was in front of a mirror, and a creepy looking hand grab his arm. They showed another shot of Harry, and Malfoy playing Quidditch.

Ron and Harry in the Ford Anglia flying in front of the Hogwarts Express. The revolving Gold Eagle statue leading to a door. Then Harry in Knockturn Alley with some creepy people. The doors to the Slytherin Common Room opening. Harry with Riddle's diary glowing. Harry disappearing into the diary. The part with Harry, and Malfoy during the match. Ron and Harry in Aragog's Lair. Them standing with Fang, while the Anglia comes in, scaring away the spiders. Harry getting shot at during the Dueling Club, and doing that summersault thing. Then to the Basilisk looking at Harry through the cage thing. It looked like it's eyes were already poked, cause they were all red.(so cool!) Next to the "Scarred Potter?", "You Wish" scene with Harry and Malfoy at the Dueling Club. Snape firing in the Dueling Club (at Lockhart I guess). Then Malfoy rolling over and over in the air, at the club (I guess Harry hit him). To the Whomping Willow smashing the Anglia, then Slythering with the Quaffle. Ha!
rry hanging out of the Anglia. The part where the creepy hand grabs Harry at the mirror. Hermione and the Pixies, Nevile with the Pixies (holding him by his ears). Harry raising the sword, then to the screen with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And last at the Stairs scene, where they're all changing.



I hope that's a new commercial, it was the first time i've ever seen it. I wanted to see the one with Ron burping up slugs though. I'll probably record all season premieres on the WB, to see if I can catch anymore.

Hope that's useful.

Well thats all the news for now also I thought I would say that where I am its Holidays in one more day so the site should be updated heaps!

post by <whittyb> on <25.9.02>

Just a update on the world around me.

Lately there hasn't been much Lord Of The Rings news around, so this is all Harry Potter news.

Now the site has been changed, because Hobbit Day is over *sob*. But I have added some quotes into the Harry Potter section. But no Snape quotes sorry Eldir!

I found this really good Harry Potter RPG, Its well worth a look!:

http://www.hpscar.com

Harry Potter Game finished
The Seattle Times has some good news about the HP2 games:

...Griptonite just finished a "Harry Potter" game that must be on the shelves in time for the release of the second movie in November. And with millions of kids clamoring for all things Harry, deadlines become increasingly important.

It's stressful and can absorb your life for a couple of weeks," Connors said. "But then, all of a sudden, it's out of your hands and that's hard too."

Griptonite, like many gaming companies, works exclusively on game production and has nothing to do with marketing or manufacturing.

But it has to do some marketing of its own to win over publishers.

Every gaming company would jump (A button, Up key) at the chance to design "Harry Potter" games. To seal that deal, Griptonite staff members dressed up as various characters out of the J.K. Rowling novels when they sold their idea to the publisher. Now, the studio is hard at work on a "Lord of the Rings" game.

Thanks to iHP for the news.

So much news to tell! Also the press have told that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (the 5th book) will be released at Christmas (only a rumor from the press).

post by <whittyb> on <22.9.02>

Happy Hobbit Day!

For you people having no idea what I'm talking about, Hobbit Day is Bilbo's birthday (from LOTR)!

To celebrate, everything pretty much is updated!

I've added a couple of new sections such as Zoids, If you want to know what that is enter the section!, A moving Picture section (go into the Tolkiens Picture Gallery and you will find a link at the bottom) and I added the story of Tour which can be a accessed through the Other Tolkien stuff and at the bottom theres a link.

Send me what you did on Hobbit Day and ill post them up for everyone to see!

whittyb@optusnet.com.au

Once again Happy Hobbit day! Hope you enjoy your day.

Right now I'm going of to read the Hobbit!

P.S (For Harry Potter fans)

interview with JKR that was posted on the CBBC web site:

Lizo: There have been quite a few rumours about when book five will be out - when do you think it'll be ready?

JK: There's a lot of book done - that's all I want to say because if I give a date and then I pass it everyone will be upset. I will say that I have a beginning, a middle and an end - you could read it all the way through and I know a lot of Harry Potter fans will say just give it to us but I'm perfectionist and I want a bit more time to tweak. I really am getting there and I have to laugh when I read the bits about writers block because I don't think I've ever been blocked in my life! I'm loving the writing and now the revising and I'm getting on really well.

Lizo: Is the book going to be as long as book four was?

JK: Yes, it is looking that way - it's already passed Azkaban, so I think yes, we are looking at Goblet of Fire length.

Lizo: Finally, what's your message to children who've been waiting for the next book for a two and half years?

JK: It's coming and it's a lot nearer than you'd think if you read some newspapers - just trust me.

There's more at the web site, so check it out!

Post by <whittyb> on <18.9.02>

Hello and its time to update! I have the Sims Online section up now but it still needs a lot of work!

I thought I would say that coming up soon is Bilbo's Birthday! (also known as Hobbit Day).

Im going to make some new sections soon to. Remember if theres a section you would like done on the site just send me a email.

And If you want you can rate my site by clicking on the link to Council Of Elrond below and following these steps links-movie sites-page 4-whittyb's site.
Thank you

Post by <whittyb>

Hello and welcome to my  site .My real name is Karl and I'm from Australia.

This is my first website so don't laugh to hard. As you can see I'm obsessed with Lord Of The Rings. I also like such things as Dragonball and Harry Potter.

On this site you will find pictures of heaps of different things and lots of text lol.

I'm going to put some tutorials up on this site and some cheats on my fave games.

Hope you like the site. enjoy.

Karl, Whittyb    

P.S If theres anything you would like to take of my site or you would like to tell me what I can do on my site to improve it or if you just want to say how much you like this site lol.  Just send me a emai at

whittyb@optusnet.com.au

And im happy to say that im linked to the best site ever!

And I would just like to give a big thank you to BondageOrc from CoE for telling me about this server 

And Eärwen for my new avatar and my great new banners!

If you want you can rate my site by clicking on the link to Council Of Elrond above (the two thank yous) and following these steps links-movie sites-page 4-whittyb's site.
Thank you

click on the pic to send me a email!