Good news on the Peter Jackson/Lord of the Rings prequel front. Turns out the rights to The Hobbit revert back from New Line to Saul Zaetz (or Zantz, or something like that), and the soon-to-be owner of record says that of course Peter Jackson will be the man behind any such film. The article also mentioned a second Lord of the Rings prequel movie. I can't imagine what they would do. Probably take a line or two from the appendix in the books and turn it in to a movie. Tolkien liked to sum up major world events on Middle Earth to notations on a calendar.