Sweeping spectacle and historical pageantry — featuring tons of horse flesh — could dominate the ceremony Feb. 29. Everyone from jockeys and Hobbits to samurai and Civil War combatants are saddled up for a run at Oscar gold. [More]

Holly writes: There is an interview in today’s (12/18) USA Today with Peter Jackson. [More]

Nick writes: This months White Dwarf (US issue 288) have a picture of Pete Jackson next to the new Oliphant miniature. It has a Orc archer next to it for scale, and it is clearly the biggest miniature in the range by far, maybe even the biggest miniature the Games Workshop has produced ever.

A Mac user writes: Excellent news for all mac users! Though we have waited long our patience will soon be rewarded! Aspyr is reported to be working on the conversion of Return of the King Game for the macs of the world. [More]

Early in “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first film in Peter Jackson’s monumental “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the wizard Gandalf finds himself alone in a room with the trinket that could end the world. It lies gleaming on the floor, and Gandalf regards it with an attitude of fascinated fear. The audience feels a chill that neither Jackson’s vertiginous camera angles nor Ian McKellen’s arching eyebrows can fully explain. [More]

TORn Staffer Anwyn has written up a new counterpoint. But it’s not a review. Why, you ask? Read on … [More]