Larisa sends in word on what you’ll see when you click on the Intelligent X Links regarding LOTR:

This came up on my morning entertinment news email.

Movie Trailer – Lord Of The Rings

There is a lot of anticipation for the J.R.R. Tolkien “Lord Of The Rings” stories coming to the big screen. A brand new trailer for first movie in the trilogy, “The Fellowship Of The Ring,” is now available for you to check out!

Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring stars Elijah Wood, Sir Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Kevin Conway(WRONG! -xo), Hugo Weaving, Brad Dourif, Marton Csokas, Bernard Hill, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, John Noble, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, and Karl Urban.

What’s It About?

The book of the 20th Century is about to become the motion picture event of the 21st Century. J. R. R. Tolkien’s groundbreaking epic of good versus evil, extraordinary heroes, wondrous creatures and dark armies of terror will be presented in a trilogy of feature films.

The Fellowship of the Ring – December 19, 2001
The Two Towers – Holiday 2002
The Return of the King – Holiday 2003

New Line Cinema’s production of The Lord of the Rings marks the first time an entire feature film trilogy is being filmed concurrently with the same director and cast, making it one of the longest, most massive and most unique productions in Hollywood history.

The Fellowship Of The Ring opens December 19, 2001.

Lord Of The Rings Movie Trailer:

Real Video – Streaming Video
Click to watch, or right click and choose “Save Target As” to download the trailer. You need the free RealPlayer to view these movies – Download it.

The IGN interview with the co-founder of WXP, Patrick Moyniham, is now available on IGN free of charge.

Patrick Moyniham: “Our first reaction was to develop more of a hardcore RPG based on the Tolkien license, but we were concerned that a full-blown RPG might intimidate some people. [More]

Göteborg-Posten Newspaper from Sweden has a three page article on LOTR. According to Ringer Fan Marcus, there is nothing groundbreaking in the actual news story, but the images are cool! !SPOILERS! [Page 1] [Page 2 and 3]

Elostirion.com has posted a cool new image of the Hobbits in the Prancing Pony. Sorta cool to see Sam ‘putting up his dukes.’ !SPOILERS! [More]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Actress Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) and her screenwriter husband Andrew Upton are expecting their first child late this year.

“It was a wonderful surprise and we couldn’t be happier,” the Australian-born Blanchett said in a statement released by her Sydney publicist on Friday.