Rosie-Posie Brandybuck writes: Love your website immensely. Thanks for all your hard work. Just wanted to let you know that FOTR won the best foreign film award on the AFI (Australian Film Institute) awards last night. [Article 1] [Article 2 (Adobe Required)]

Sir Ian McKellen — knight, gay-rights spokesman and legendary star of stage and screen — is the last person you might expect to see rattling through the streets of Victoria in a writer’s old Dodge pickup truck with 220,000 klicks on it. [More]

Malatarwen writes: The World Over Live will be intervewing Peter Jackson and some of the other LotR cast members next friday (Dec. 13) at 10:00 (pacific) on the EWTN Catholic channel.

Enyalie writes: I was at a Famous Players theatre in Canada today and picked up the December issue of their movie magazine which has an article spotlighting Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn). [More]

Every year it seems we are faced with the same question: What gift can I buy for a Tolkien fanatic? We here at TheOneRing.net see it as our duty to not only answer this question, but to also make it as easy and painless as possible. With that in mind, welcome to TheOneRing.net’s Holiday Gift Guide 2002. [More]

USA Today Weekend gave us a very *very* small look at the final TTT Poster! They will be publishing the full version in next weekends edition! Stay tuned for that! UPDATE Our sources tell us that this poster is only for USA today, and that the latest poster, the one with Saruman looking out over his army, is in fact the last poster for TTT.