Time for Tolkien

I still haven't had the chance to watch any of the stuff on the extended-version Fellowship of the Ring discs (which I picked up while I was on vacation in New Jersey), but I have already made plans to go see The Two Towers when it comes out in a few weeks, an event which I am looking forward to with great anticipation.

In the meantime, I thought I'd pass along a some links that a friend sent me a while back to a couple of good Time magazine articles: one on The Two Towers and another speculating about the reasons behind the current boom in the popularity of fantasy. Interesting stuff.