There’s a nasty rumor going around that the first cinematic trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King will be released with New Line Cinema’s next movie, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, which comes out next Friday.

I say the rumor is “nasty” because it means I may have to actually go see the piece of crap. Oh, the humanity!

Of course, there are other options. One Tolkienphile has a strategy: “Buy a ticket for something you *want* to see that starts shortly after [Dumb & Dumberer], wander into the ‘wrong’ room until the trailers are over, slap forehead and evacuate to the ‘right’ theatre.” Heh.

(On a tangentially related note, a Google search for dumb and dumberer does turn up the official movie site (item #4), but it also produces the question: “Did you mean: dumb and dumber?” Again, heh.)