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Grail Quest Books Becomes Official Publishing Arm of MEnet

Grail Quest Books Becomes Official Publishing Arm of MEnet

Middle-earth Network and Grail Quest Books have reached a partnership agreement earlier today that will bring Grail Quest Books within the growing sanctuary and community of Middle-earth Network. As a result Grail Quest Books (GQB) […]

This Week on TFI: Tim White of ALEP II

This week on The Founders’ Inklings: Join the Middle-earth Network Founders at 10 PM EST this Tuesday (November 22nd) on Middle-earth Network Radio as they interview this week’s special guest, Tim White, of “A Long […]

Nelsonians Haven’t Seen the Last of Hobbits

About 150 people from The Hobbit production left Nelson Airport after filming in the area for a week.  A crew member let slip that the group filming at Takaka Hill at Canaan Downs was The Hobbit’s […]

Legal Action Threatens The Hungry Hobbit

A cafe in Mosely, Birmingham called the Hungry Hobbit is less than 200 yards away from one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s childhood homes. The shop, lined with pictures from The Lord of the Rings, has been […]

Orlando Bloom in Queenstown

With our growing dependence on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, news travels fast – especially when it comes to celebrity sightings. And especially when the celebrity is involved in what is likely […]

The Invention of Middle-earth

Middle-earth was not the creation of famed author and scholar J.R. R. Tolkien. In fact the term in literature and in language long preceded it’s use by Tolkien. Tolkien himself didn’t use the term in […]

Tolkien Feast Week

With the holidays fast approaching, my mind (tell me I’m not alone in this) is often thinking of food. For a lot of holidays, the food is at the forefront, being either symbolic or traditional. […]

From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages

Fun fact: I was going to write this entire post in Elvish. I kid. Or do I? Moving on. Michael Adams’s From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages seems to be one of those books […]

The Bilbo That Could Have Been

I sometimes wonder what The Lord of The Rings films would have been like if different actors had been cast in the roles. And though I haven’t seen The Hobbit films yet, I have become […]

Road to the Shire and The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Road to the Shire Hobbits are at it again! Beri, Olo, and Toad (otherwise known as Mitch Stevens, John D. Storey, and Jon Wright) are on a mission to get back to the Shire […]