Here’s a painted billboard at an intersection in Hat Yai advertising the December 28th, 2001 release of LOTR. On January 4, 2002, The Nation reported that the Thai-language version of The Fellowship of the Ring sold out at bookstores. [More]

Santa Monica, 13 December, 2001 – Track 16 Gallery is pleased to present “Viggo Mortensen: Signlanguage,” an exhibition of recent paintings and photographs, and “Alan Rath: Stereo,” a show of eight handmade stereos by the Oakland-based artist. [More]

a13x quite rightly pointed out that there is a slight LotR reference in the latest edition of the very cool and ‘l33t’ (what can I say, I’m a fan) online comic strip, MegaTokyo. Check out the entire story spanning 210 strips if you have an hour to spare. [More]

Grey Elf writes: I was watching an ESPN Golf Special yesterday on TV, (I was bored), when I heard the FOTR Soundtrack song, “Concerning Hobbits” being played as background music!

Hopefully this is just the beginning of television networks using the FotR soundtrack in their programs.

Pippin Skywalker writes: Cinescape has an LOTR related article on their main homepage called Three Rings Circuit.More]

Greg writes: In case this hasn’t been sent in et, the Chicago Tribune’s website is featuring reader reviews of Fellowship of the Ring. [More]