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Feast Week, Day 6: The Feast of Tom Bombadil, Day 2

For this year’s Feast Week celebration, we are sharing Middle-earth News Staff Favorites from Feast Weeks past! These posts were chosen by the Middle-earth News team as our collective favorites for each day of Feast […]

Feast Week, Day 3: The Feast of Gildor

Today, we continue Tolkien Feast Week with Day 3: The Feast of Gildor. After their first scary encounter with a Black Rider, the Hobbits luckily cross paths with some Elves, lead by Gildor, who invites […]

BREAKING: The Battle of the Five Armies Tapestry

With less than 100 days away from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (have you spotted our shiny golden countdown on the right sidebar?) Entertainment Weekly has finally revealed the movie tapestry! You can […]

Billy Connolly to Film Pickups for ‘The Hobbit’

Billy Connolly will be returning to Stone Street Studios to shoot some continuity footage for The Hobbit: There and Back Again once he finishes his current stand up tour of New Zealand reports Stuff.NZ. Billy, who […]

‘The Hobbit’ Cast in New Zealand, Home of Middle-earth

In this striking video, we get to see New Zealand through the eyes of the cast of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Stunning scenery to be sure, but I seem to have the vision of Stephen […]

Luke Evans on ITV Daybreak

Actor Luke Evans, who plays Bard in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, was interviewed by ITV Daybreak earlier today (27 March, 2014). In the interview Luke describes how in New Zealand he lived on the […]

‘The Hobbit’ Cast in the News

The Hobbit actors have been making the news this week. Let’s see what they’ve been up to.   Benedict Cumberbatch It’s been confirmed that Benedict Cumberbatch (Smaug) will play Hamlet at The Barbican Theatre in London […]

Rare Copy ‘The Hobbit’ Goes Under the Hammer

A rare copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary book The Hobbit is to be auctioned by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury on 11 April in their sale of Modern Literature. The press release says: As the third and final part of […]

Tolkien Reading Day Haiku Winners

Tolkien Reading Day Haiku Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our Tolkien Reading Day Haiku Contest! We had a wonderful 115 entries for this competition and it’s been difficult choosing the winners but here are the two haiku’s the staff […]

Three Bags For Three Dwarves

It’s Throwback Thursday, so here’s a story from Wellington in November 2012, just before The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey premiere. When Garrett Robinson was asked to deliver three Severn Lang bags to Adam Brown in […]