NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – You can’t blame AOL Time Warner shareholders for wanting a little escapism, and starting this Friday, they’ll get it. [More]

Stephanie writes: I just thought that you might want to know that John Rhys-Davis is going to be in a SciFi channel movie called Sabertooth this week. From one of the ads, it looks like our good friend Gimli might get eatten by one of the cats too! Too bad he won’t have his axe.

Jennifer writes: Just thought I’d pass on some comments about Sir Ian McKellan’s (Gandalf) appearance at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby British Columbia on November 13. [More]

Ringer Spy Wyvern writes: Well, there wasn’t any doubt that winning a ticket to the Extended DVD premiere in L.A. was a wonderful surprise. I found out about just four days beforehand via email. We were told to appear in costume in order to get our free DVD, and after getting out my Sam Gamgee costume I had been working on all year, and gathering up some of my artwork (just in case….you never know who you might meet at these events!). [More]

Martha writes: Here’s my review of the Tom Shippey lecture I attended in Chicago on 9 Nov 2002. My son who is taking a Tolkien class at Purdue University thought this was interesting, so I decided to pass it on. [More]

Default writes: You probably already know this, but South Park’s new episode was a LOTR parody involving the quest to return an adult movie to the video store. I felt that they stayed very close to the original text….not, but it was hilarious none the less. I appreciated it much more being a rings fanatic.