TORN Staffer Gandalf writes: Last night while watching ‘The Tonight Show’, Jay Leno actually
mentioned Lord of the Rings:

“First you had Harry Potter, then the Segue Scooter. Next week you got The Lord of the Rings. This could turn out to be the greatest two weeks in Nerd history!”

December 5, 2001 — AT one point while filming the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, its 40-year-old director found himself commanding seven different camera crews. [More]

Ringer Spy Mike sends us this scan from the latest issue of Time, the one with the immortal George Harrison on the cover. [More]

Ringer Spy Glaurung sends along a scan from The Evening Standard. Take a look! [More]

The critic’s praise for Fellowship of the Ring continues today with the release of an Entertainment Weekly review by Lisa Schwarzbaum. She gives it an A, which is not something EW does regularly. (I have to keep reminding myself to lower expectations…lower expectations…but with reviews like this…what can I do!!!!) [More]

Tonight (I promise) Access Hollywood will be doing a LOTR special. Be sure to catch it! Check your local listings.