Not a 'news of the weird' link, but one that might be interesting to the folks here anyway: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/17/review.tolkien.ap/index.html Hmmmm, may have to check into that! RonL. (Currently reading several Excel and Access books ... But midway through watching a very nice BBC series on "Life in the Undergrowth" by the ever enjoyable Sir David A.!)