12/18/2007: I'm calling off the boycott effective today because it's been announced that Peter Jackson will produce two Hobbit movies for MGM!. Thanks to everyone for their interest in this boycott and for being one of 3,176 people around the world who signed this petition.
Given the worldwide interest in The Lord of the Rings and the fact that the main publicity for the site was given to it by the BBC, I thought it would be interesting to see where the signers have come from. As of now (11/26/06), the petition has over 2,300 non-duplicative signatures. I've been deleting duplicate signatures, obscene comments and people using the petition to push other agendas.
I won't have the time to break out the country list in its entirty today, but I have a breakdown by country of the first 700 signatures:
| Country | Number |
|---|---|
| England | 349 |
| US | 92 |
| New Zealand | 79 |
| Scotland | 34 |
| Ireland | 21 |
| Australia | 17 |
| Canada | 15 |
| Germany | 14 |
| Russia | 10 |
| Wales | 10 |
| France | 7 |
| Malaysia | 6 |
| Austria | 3 |
| Singapore | 3 |
| Sweden | 3 |
| Switzerland | 3 |
| Thailand | 3 |
| Belgium | 2 |
| Congo | 2 |
| India | 2 |
| Northern Ireland | 2 |
| Norway | 2 |
| Other (unclear) | 2 |
| Poland | 2 |
| South Korea | 2 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 |
| Brazil | 1 |
| China | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 1 |
| Denmark | 1 |
| Estonia | 1 |
| Iceland | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
| Namibia | 1 |
| Netherlands | 1 |
| Philippines | 1 |
| Serbia | 1 |
| South Africa | 1 |
| Spain | 1 |
| Total | 700 |