Anyone else think the top of that page looks beautiful?

Yes, but they really geeked-out with the Tengwar in the upper left.

I don't think it is quite as "geeked-out" since the movies. I think an awful lot more people would now recognise the script (albeit having no idea what Tengwar is) - TeX itself is probably more "geeky" now :)

The fact that they still haven't replaced the double-hyphen in the n00b banner with a proper en-dash is a painful irony on a site devoted to TeX.

This has the potential to be a very useful resource though. I hope it takes off.

They're fixing it. ( http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/547/new-user-gre... ) Your comment here got mentioned in one of the comments there.