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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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•The Tolkien Guild
How organized are the Guild's six member sites? They got Starbucks and Krispy Kreme to sponsor those fans who paid for a ticket to ''Thirteen Days'' just to see the new trailer on Friday. Looking for some Rings fellowship in your home state? Find it here.
GRADE Elf (B)

•Sir Ian McKellen's Grey Book
Anyone who read McKellen's Magneto diary during the filming of ''X-Men'' knows this is a must read. In the January 25 entry, McKellen (Gandalf) hilariously writes of the costumers dressing him up to look like Shylock from ''The Merchant of Venice,'' and then Beatles' guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, until finding attaching an appropriately wizardly beard to his face.
GRADE Human (C)

•Geek's Adventure In Middle Earth
Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles spins 11 unbelievably long chapters out of his visit to the New Zealand set. A more coherent tour is supplied by E! Online, which is running a Force of Hobbit special that includes tales of Armani Elf (a nickname that the wardrobe department gave to the Elf Prince played by Orlando Bloom). One J.R.R. webmaster's dream came true when he was hired to work on the film as a production assistant for three weeks. Read about his experience here.
GRADE Dwarf (D)

•Hobbit: Two Feet Tall
This band formed because ''they shared common rock & roll influences and the powerful attraction to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.'' Sample their ''Fantasy Rock'' CD here.
GRADE Hobbit (A)

•Stairway To Middle Earth
A handful of people have dedicated space on their hard drives to finding allusions to the ''Rings'' in the music of Led Zeppelin. And while similarities may be found, most of these folks have been smoking too much Hobbit butter. The creator of this page, for example, says that even though Robert Plant told an interviewer that ''Stairway To Heaven'' had absolutely nothing to do with Tolkien's work, ''I am convinced that he is not being completely honest.'' Dude, we get paranoid sometimes too.
GRADE Orc (F)

Originally posted Jan 15, 2001
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