Tolkien fans everywhere will soon be able to buy into a legend by subscribing to the public appeal to finance a sculpture celebrating the internationally acclaimed author and his Birmingham roots.  Starting October 1st,  fans can bid for a metal leaf with a personalised dedication on eBay and associate themselves with this most famous of writers.

The iconic controversial 20 ft high Ent will be located on Birmingham ’s Tolkien Trail close to where the author lived in Moseley Village , and between his childhood home of Sarehole, later immortalised as Hobbiton and the Edgbaston of his youth. The Ent, a benign and friendly tree-like being, is depicted striding across a carpet of metal leaves towards Moseley Bog, the inspiration for the Old Forest in The Lord of the Rings.

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XMenFilms reports that Oscar-nominated cinematographer Donald McAlpine has joined the crew of the Wolverine spinoff movie.

The veteran Australian-born cinematographer was born in 1934 in New South Wales, Australia,  and has lensed nearly fifty films including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Moulin Rouge! for which he earned his Academy nomination.

The site’s sources have also informed that Kenny Myers, makeup artist on X-Men: The Last Stand and The Prestige, will again be working on Hugh Jackman’s makeup adding that director Gavin Hood and his crew were scouting additional locations in New Zealand this week.

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