Just a week after the release of The Lord of the Rings, the second-guessing by competitors has already begun in earnest..[More] Thanks to Matt for the link.

Today is famed LOTR illustrator John Howe’s birthday! John worked as conceptual designer on the LOTR films alongside Alan Lee…who celebrated a birthday yesterday and we missed it! Cheers to both of you!

Follow the click below for the cool-beyond-cool exclusive footage from X2 featuyring our very own Ian McKellen (Gandalf), please dear god PLEASE let me get invited to the set! [More]

milaya sends along this review from ‘8 Days Magazine’. Take a look! [More]

Tookie writes: Just thought you might like to see whats going on down my local town centre this bank holiday weekend. Unfortunately, I will not be around to witness the events and am absolutely deverstated. I’ll send you next weeks report on the events, hopefully with pictures! [More]

Apparently Tolkien is one of the nominated ‘100 greatest,’ according to Mion. The story is on the Yahoo here, and there’s something about the poll and upcoming TV series at the BBC site here