Over on the TVNZ site there’s a realplayer clip on the right hand side under ‘Holmes.’ About half of it is trailer footage, but the rest shows the hysteria outside the theatre in London. [More]

If you love bad puns, this is the report for you. Simply the worst! [More]

Another big player in film journalism piles in with a rave review for FOTR. [More]

Thanks to Spacelord for the alert.

A couple TORn staffers had a chance to attend a press screening of Fellowship of the Ring Monday night. We will be writing up reviews shortly. But let me just preface them all by saying…how to put this bluntly….OH MY GOD!!! IT ROCKS!!! Congrats to PJ, the production and everyone involved. Masterpiece is not even close to a significant enough word. More later!

Kyrin writes: Celebrated fantasy author Terry Brooks has written a short essay on the Lord of the Rings phenomenon at the Borders bookstore website. [More]

“What about page 53?” a voice shouted, as the lights dimmed for the first British press screening of Lord of the Rings. The little dig at the Tolkien purists who will be poised to descend gibbering on all textual deviation when the film opens to the public next week was a reminder that, for the devout, this is a moment of nervous apprehension. [More]