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The Metropolitan Festival Orchestra announces that, next June, it will be a continuation of the journey that started last year with the screening of The Fellowship of the Ring accompanied by a live soundtrack at the […]
Happy birthday to one of Middle-earth News’ finest! Our own Oloriel Berry celebrates her “coming of age” as she turns 33 years old today. She mostly works behind-the-scenes these days and plays the vital role […]
Who was Radagast the Brown? A member of the Order of wizards, Radagast was a Maia sent to Middle-earth to aid its inhabitants against the growing threat of Sauron. During the Council of Elrond in […]
Happy Birthday to Kiwi production designer Grant Major, who turns 59 today! Grant Major was born on April 18, 1955 in Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand. He is perhaps best known for his Academy Award […]
Before the conniving servant Alfrid, there was another devious servant we all love to hate: Grima Wormtongue. In Sir Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Grima Wormtongue was portrayed by the talented actor […]
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 3 Théoden retreats to Helm’s Deep Battle of the Horn-burg begins Ents complete the destruction of Isengard March 4 Théoden and Gandalf set out from Helm’s […]
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings February 25 The Company pass the Argonath and camp at Parth Galen First Battle of the Fords of Isen; Theodred son of Theoden slain February 26 Breaking […]
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings January 23 Gandalf pursues the Balrog to the peak of Zirak-zigil From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak it climbed, ascending in unbroken spiral in many […]
The Official J. R. R. Tolkien Book Shop released the latest editions of The Lord of the Rings this week. These beautiful collector’s clothbound editions feature new cover designs and reproductions of all of Tolkien’s drawings and […]
During my research for the previous article about Galadriel, I came across Anne C. Petty’s book One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien’s Mythology. There she states that Galadriel and Shelob are “both manifestations of the […]
