Well, with more than three months before its release, the first review of the first Fellowship of the Ring DVD has surfaced on the Internet, and it’s the folks at LightsOutEntertainment who have landed the scoop. Check out the review (with a lot of beautiful screenshots), though you may make the wait for August that much harder for yourself. [More]

J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth author Dr. Brad Birzer sends this along personally. This is the upcoming cover of his new book, to be published in October of 2002. Take a look! [More]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soon after Kenneth Cron became head of Vivendi Universal Games last year, he was faced with a career-defining decision — whether to spend millions to develop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels. [More] [Gaming Havens]

Ian McKellen (Gandalf) has been chosen to head up the Gay Pride parade in San Francisco on June 29th. [More]

We received over 550 emails from all over the globe with questions for Christopher Lee (Saruman). We chose the 15 questions we thought were interesting and were some of the most popular questions asked. Christopher Lee will be answering these 15 questions on video, and you will soon be able to see it right here! Congrats to all the folks who got their questions through, and thanks for sending your questions in! [More]

Giorgia writes: There will be another chance for Australian viewers to see Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) on television this weekend – she is appearing on Parkinson on Saturday 25 May at 9.30pm on the ABC.