The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Movies, Art, Literature, Gaming 
Evie was introduced to Tolkien's work by her boyfriend, over a beer in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford. She went home, read the books and, a while later, married her boyfriend. She has only recently discovered fandom, after years of eye-rolling by her husband and children, and is delighted to find it warm and welcoming and not-at-all weird. As well as tracking down bits of news and sharing them with others, she leads ponies for Riding for the Disabled and loves the cinema and theatre and her wildlife garden.
The Hobbit fans rock! The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has ended the first week of video sales at the top of the sales charts in both the US and UK, knocking Walt Disney’s Frozen into second place. Frozen had held the top […]
Professor Adam Roberts will deliver the second annual Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. The press release says: Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hugo Weaving is 54 today! Weaving, who has reprised his role as Elrond Lord of Rivendell for The Hobbit, has many film and stage roles to his credit. He is the first actor to play […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
