Post Tagged with: "Lord of the Rings"

An Interview with Emil Johansson of The Lord of the Rings Family Tree Project

Move over, genealogy enthusiasts; Emil Johansson has got you beat. This Swedish student’s passion for the Tolkien universe inspired him to create a family tree for every character in Eä. He’s gotten tons of media coverage […]

Vintage Tolkien Covers, from the Charming to the Bizarre

Whenever I’m in a used bookstore, I like to look at the copies of anything by Tolkien, just to see what they have. Usually it ends up being the movie editions of The Lord of […]

JRR Tolkien – Prose Too Poor for a Nobel Prize

Shock! Horror! To those of us who consider ourselves honorary inhabitants of Middle-earth, the Nobel committee  has committed a grievous error – passing over Tolkien for the Nobel Prize . The shock isn’t in the […]

Orlando Bloom Spotted in Wairarapa

Via Wairarapa Times-Age, Orlando Bloom was spotted shopping in Wairarapa with his wife Miranda Kerr and their son, 11-month-old Flynn. The three checked out shops along Main Street, including a store called Hope and Glory, […]

Peter Jackson Explains the Differences Between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Over the holidays, while we were at that delightful stage of ‘filling up the corners’, as it were,  Peter Jackson expounded a bit on the major differences between telling the stories of The Hobbit and […]

Francisco Guerrero’s Lord of the Rings Illustrations

Artist Francisco Guerrero graced the web this week with a series of Lord of the Rings illustrations that are, as The Mary Sue so aptly claims, part Disney, part Rankin Bass. (Before I go any further: […]

Graphic novel plot based on Lord of the Rings

Fans of William Shakespeare and J.R.R. Tolkien are finding pieces of their favorite stories alive in Kill Shakespeare, a graphic novel from IDW Publishing. This seemingly unconventional pairing was dreamed up by co-authors Conor McCreery […]