Not really. But “Riskbreaker” wrote in to tell us:

“I just received word from someone “in the know” that New Line Cinema has licensed the props weaponry, primarily) from the film out to two companies: Marto Swords and United Cutlery. Both companies have produced movie/TV replica swords in the past and thus have experience. Let’s hope they do it right!”

Great. I’ll order their replica Glamdring, ESPECIALLY if they throw in, ABSOLUTELY FREE, a set of genuine gensu steak knives. I wanna hear those ads, “But wait, there’s more!…”

I’ve got a theory that if you are a complete nerd and ignore all fashions, eventually you fall so far behind that you find yourself ahead of the pack – voila, a trendsetter. (That was a ‘voila’ missing the little line over one of the vowels, BTW. Not a miss-spelled viola.) So is this true of being a Tolkien fan, or do we just come to this website to delude ourselves that we’ve got friends?

According to USA Today, Tolkien fandom is hip enough that the official LOTR site features in their Web Guide’s “Hot Sites” list today.