When the Lord of the Rings movie opened in theaters last year, it rekindled geeks' interest in wizards, hobbits, and Middle-earth, so now everyone's trying to cash-in. We've seen all kinds of corporate-sellout merchandise, from light-up Burger King mugs to Hostess Lembas, and we knew the video games weren't far off.

Today we received a demo of Universal's Xbox game, which is based on the books and not the movie. We expected it to be pretty cool, since they could use things the movie had to cut. Here's what we've seen so far: