Phil writes: I Just saw the Cinefex LOTR issue on the newstands! It was priced $9.50. Get it before the issues run out! Lots of picures from the movie and hours of reading about the special effects!

If you thought there’s been quite a lot of The Lord of the Rings about the place since the first film’s release, just you wait. At the end of this year not only will be there be the second film, The Two Towers, and the special edition extra-footage DVD of the first, The Fellowship of the Ring, there will also be the first of what is planned to be three videogames, all sticking closely to Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth. [More]

Ian sends us this great comic from NZ ‘Doctor Fun’, take a look! [More]

Tomi writes: Just wanted to let you know that Riot-E (which has/had “exclusive rights to manufacture, sell and distribute accessories to mobile phones, in relation to the Lord of the Rings but also rights to wireless games and services concerning the same legend”) has filed for bankruptcy. Riot-E isn’t the first mobile company in Finland to go under.

Several folks have written in to report that they have spotted Sean Bean (Boromir) singing a couple of lines in the new Moby music video playing on MTV, “We’re All Made of Stars.” UPDATE: André was kind enough to send us a link to view the video! [More]

News from Random Pseudonym: “National Geographic’s ‘Beyond the Movie’ documentary is now available in the UK, priced £9.99 on video or DVD. I had no idea it was out until I stumbled across it in the DVD section of my local Woolworths on Friday. Just out of interest, it was number 12 in the DVD chart – not bad for a 52 minute documentary!”