Evan Nattrass is used to wearing armour in public. But as a Lord of the Rings extra, he hit the big time. Ewan Sargent reports. [More]

Film director Peter Jackson can breathe easy for now – the first review of The Fellowship Of The Ring is out and it’s enough to make us all wish we had big hairy hobbit feet. [More]

As the heavenly elf Arwen, Liv Tyler “had to look, ‘Wow!’—like she was this goddess,” says Noreen Wilkie, makeup artist for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. [More]

Weta Digital chief technical officer Jon Labrie was looking forward to a lull after delivering the special effects for The Fellowship of the Ring, the first in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy. [More]

Carangil writes: I just wanted to let you know about AOL instant messenger. There is an automated computer screen name, RingMessenger, that you can instant message and it tells you about FOTR. [More]

Lord of Mist & Rain writes: There is a minute-long clip on this swedish site, where Ian McKellen talks about his character, Gandalf. The site is in swedish, but just click on the text below Ian’s picture. [More]