The anti-abortion LifeSite news service notes the following with disgust:

Profits from the Lord of the Rings film trilogy are being used to fund destructive human embryonic research at the University of California, reported the Mainichi Daily News.

Filmmakers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, who brought the J.R.R. Tolkien epic to the screen, together donated US $310,000 last Saturday to fund research using the stem cells of human embryos....

I say good for them. And if you haven't seen it, go rent Heavenly Creatures.