If you live in the Old Pueblo and would like to meet some fellow Tolkien freaks, come find us at Borders in Park Place Mall at 5:30 for a birthday toast.

JJG alerts us to an online poll that hasn’t heard from too many Ringers yet at Movieheadlines.net. [More]

Narsil sends in this update: I just checked the fiction bestseller list they compile and LOTR holds down the following spots: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 21, 22 & 23. Check out our Shop links here: [More]

Join me an a bazillion other Professor Tolkien officionados this evening in a toast to JRRT organized by The Tolkien Society! [More]

110 years ago today, the great Professor Tolkien was born. Our gratitude for the contributions of this noble spirit runs deeper than the Sundering Seas and further than the distance between Middle-earth and Valinor. Here’s many a 1420 to toast his honor!

Rafe noticed that in Google’s 2001 review, LotR is ranked #18 in the Top 20 Gaining Queries category and #2 in the Top 10 Movie Queries category. This is much the same at Yahoo!/Lycos, where LotR is #2 in the Movie section and #50 overall.