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Followup to last post. The offical Hugo site is here, you can see a complete list of who got nominated. Passage is up for best novel! Yeah! Go Connie Willis, win yet another Hugo award!

Oh, sorry, this is Tolkien related stuff, but Connie Willis is just such a great author... go read her To Say Nothing of the Dog. Trust me, if you have a working sense of humor and like well written stories, you'll like it.

Anyway, LotR is probably a shoo-in for best movie.... the competition is Harry Potter, Monsters Inc, Shrek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although Harry Potter 4 did win for best novel last year, that was because of a very weak field, in which the other four nominees were A. books no one had ever heard of or B. books which are in the middle of a fantasy series and should have won anyway but I think the Hugo people are afraid of Robert Jordan syndrome.

So, check it out if you feel like it... this makes my day, it's so much better than the Oscars because this is fan stuff, not snooty Hollywood people stuff.

What do you think? When I listen to the Ring calling Aragorn, it sounds like it's saying ARE-agorn. And when Arwen speaks his name in the movie, she seems to say ARE-agorn. Now I know ar(a) means "high, noble, royal" and that Arwen means "high, noble or royal maiden" so would it be AIRwen? (Do they ever say Arwen's name in the movie?) Doesn't sound right.

But then Legolas says "AIR-agorn, son of AIR-athorn...you owe him your allegiance."

I've always said "AIR-agorn...what about you?