Lauren writes: Just letting everyone know, the game is awesome. I’ve been playing it a little bit and it actually has scenes from the movies in it- both Fellowship of the Ring AND The Two Towers– the ones from the Two Towers are ones that I’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE…(highlight to read!) !Spoilers! Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli arrive in Fangorn Forest. Legolas starts talking about how the forest is old and full of anger. [Gaming Havens]

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Ryan sends us this update on all the great figurines you can get at games-workshop.com. Take a look at these cool pics, wargs included! [More] [Gaming Havens]

Even though the academy nominations won’t be announced until Feb.11 — the awards themselves are March 23 — Oscar season arrives early, like winter in North Dakota. It may be too soon to convince the White House that the Earth is in the grip of global warming, but it’s never too early for Hollywood pundits to toss around Oscar plaudits. [More]

Pamela sends along some interesting info on the new release date for the FOTR DVD in Taiwan. And some very cool pictures of LOTR swag! Take a look! [More]

Pamela writes: Someone who works for the DVD company here has post the pics of the bookends and the preorder gift-posters. The release date of TTT has been changed to 12/21 about several days ago. And some said that the agent here wants to make it earlier just like in America on 12/18. There’s no further news about it recently.