Alirub writes: In the latest issue of 3D World there is an in-depth behind the scenes report from Weta, on the making of the specialfx and animation in the movie.

Anyone with scans of this article, send them along!

UK Ringers can catch Billy Boyd (Pippin) on ‘The Saturday Show’ today, Saturday…of all days.

Richard writes: Ian McKellen (Gandalf) was just on KCRW 89.9FM today on a show called “The Treatment”
at 2:30pm-3:00pm PST here in Los Angeles. [More]

We get a lot of emails from folks asking why we hate Harry Potter, for the record we do NOT hate HP, we just like to goof around. That being said take a look at the following picture! [More]

Tolkien disliked allegory. He thought it a sterile and predictable genre. Yet, many readers of his The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) have been unable to resist allegorical interpretations, the most popular of which see the work as a Christian allegory or as an allegory for the great wars of the early 20th century. [More]

Brigath sends us this strip ‘Over The Hedge’, take a look! [More]