At work I have a map of Middle Earth on the back of my office door. I'm considering a calendar, but that'll probably live at home, where I can drool in privacy.

StY's film cells were reversed. He's keeping it, greedily speculating it'll be worth money someday, like those stamps that were accidentally printed upside down that are worth a fortune today.

I have Elrond at the battle in the prologue, Arwen in her widow's weeds, and Gandalf on the balcony at Minas Tirith. You can just see Pippin in bed. Billy talks about that in the commentary.

I still have to send off for the rebate, and I'm struggling with whether or not I want to order Minas Morgul. I'm also cruising for a set of the Argonath on ebay. I have the calendar page of Boromir with the horn of Gondor that Jessica sent me framed and on the wall in my office. And my screensaver cycles pictures from my hard drive every 20 seconds--nearly half of them are LotR caps and stills.

This is goofy. And yet hilarious: [link]

It always comes back to ninjas.

I'm struggling with whether or not I want to order Minas Morgul

Right there with you. On the one hand, want; on the other, $75 is a big chunk of change. But still, want.

One of my co-workers (a fellow LotR buff) just gave me a pretty neat something that a friend of his wife's had made for them but really didn't fit in their house, so he passed it onto me. They're four glass display bottles filled with bead and stones, but hotglued to the top are the Witchking (with sword drawn)--his bottle has an eyeball charm tied around the neck; Gandalf on Shadowfax--his bottle's charm says "Protect"; Frodo with Sting--his charm says "Courage"; and Sam with Sting and a little blob in his left fist which I think is the starglass--his charm says "Friendship." I've got them sitting on top of my CPU now.

Oh, neat, Kathy! I'd love to see pictures.

-t, while we're dithering whether or not to spend $75? Minas Morgul is bringing up to $199, with a $239 Buy it Now price. Just FYI.

Hmm. Good point Beverly. Suddenly, it's an investment! With an excellent ROI. Except I know I wouldn't sell it, but I can pretend that I might some time in the future if I really need the money.

Those sound extremely cool, Kathy.

I just noticed that the bottles have in them appropriate items--the Witchking has bloodred glass beads, Gandalf has white ones, and Frodo and Sam both have polished stones, appropriate for the salt-of-the-earth hobbits.

Ooo! She could have used coarse salt and herbs for Sam. "That there's the best salt in all the Shire."

My brother totally kicks ass for sending me this.

Warning: Hilarity ahead so swallow your drink.