Fleming Rutledge discovers the deeper religious meaning behind Tolkien's masterpiece.

The Battle has begun, are you ready? ·Detailed walkthrough of every mission, including optional battles ·Complete statistics, upgrade potential, and strengths/weaknesses of all units and buildings ·Full stats of all special hero abilities ·Strategy for creating, maintaining, and sending units into battle ·Fully labeled maps for every encounter

"Once in a lifetime." The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. The film's seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and hundreds of ancillary products attest to its importance and to the fact that Rings is far more than a film. Its makers seized a crucial moment in Hollywood—the special effects digital revolution plus the rise of "infotainment" and the Internet—to satisfy the trilogy's fans while fostering a huge new international audience. The resulting franchise of franchises has earned billions of dollars to date with no end in sight. Kristin Thompson interviewed seventy-six people to examine the movie's scripting and design and the new technologies deployed to produce the films, video games, and DVDs. She demonstrates the impact Rings had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema. In fast-paced, compulsively readable prose, she affirms Jackson's Rings as one the most important films ever made.

Your dose of gaming goodness for Xbox, PlayStation, GameCube, GameBoy, PCs, Macs, and Linux!The 2006 Gamer’s Tome of Ultimate Wisdom: An Almanac of Pimps, Orcs and Lightsabersis filled with entertaining reviews, previews, and commentaries on all gaming platforms and the gaming industry as a whole. The book takes a month-by-month look back at the significant game releases of 2005 and looks ahead to the exciting titles you can expect to see in 2006. Along the way theGamer’s Tomeoffers insights into anything and everything that has to do with gaming, including why sports games are the biggest rip-off in the industry, advice on how to talk about games in public without being shunned by “regular” people and even what energy drinks give you that extra oomph you need to get through an all-night LAN party. This book is for you if you view gaming - be it PC, console or handheld gaming - as a major component of your life!

The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the films, to fan adoration and, finally, Oscar glory.