George,

I got mine from Axelmusic.com who are based in Sweden I think, though they have a few warehouses on the continent as I think my set came from their German HQ. They've had the US set since last Wednesday (ahead of its actually 7th of Nov release) and it cost me about �43 in all, inclusive of shipping – which I didn't consider bad as this time last week Amazon UK were still quoting �48 and the later date of the 20th. Axel were very efficient. If the Return of the King set sees a British delay in 2007 I'll be calling upon them to send me the US version since, well, I've already explained how impatient I am when it comes to getting these releases.

You can download the annotated score notes here by the way. Similar to the online annotated notes for Fellowship they're a track by track companion piece to the booklet that comes with the set, both written by Doug Adams. Doug's actually writing a proper book about the music of the trilogy and a lot of the material in the annotated notes and the booklets with the sets are culled from that.

1138,

All the very best on your move! Taking any M gear over there with you?