A couple of things....

We are one mission away from the end of the original GuildWars game (I've completed all of the others with at least one character, and columbina has finished two of the three), but the last mission - well, it's called Hell's Precipice, and it's hard and pretty tedious, and at one point Col said, "You know, they don't give you anything for finishing this anyway." And after a while we gave up on it. So now... it only took them three years, but they are fixing that. As part of the third anniversary festivities, they are introducing prizes for finishing Prophecies. And I guess now we have no excuse.

(Neither one of us has been playing for three years, incidentally. Col started in early 2006 and I was a few months behind.)

Via iko: Guillermo del Toro to direct 'Hobbit' - that in itself is interesting, but look at what they say about the 2nd movie. What are they gonna do, make that part up out of whole cloth? I can't think that Tolkien wrote enough about the "in between" part of Bilbo's life to make a movie out of. Well, we'll see.