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.
You can tell straight away that the writers of Walking the Literary Landscape are themselves hikers from the way the book fits easily into the pocket of a kagool. Authors Ian Hamilton and Diane Roberts’ pocket […]
Viggo Mortensen will be on Classic FM’s Culture Club on Sunday 18 May, 2014. Viggo will be talking to Charlotte Green about his film roles, from playing Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings to his latest movie The […]
While I was visiting the Viking Exhibition at the British Museum recently, I thought I would look for exhibits that were, for me, particularly evocative of things in Tolkien’s books. Tolkien was the Rawlinson and […]
From The Hobbit panel at Wales Comic Con we learned that Graham McTavish has a collection of prosthetic noses categorised by dwarf, that rolling resets (when a whole scene is acted again rather than cut) becomes […]
It was Wales Comic Con at Glyndwr University, Wrexham last Sunday and it seemed as if the whole of the town had turned up to take a look. The queue to get in snaked round […]
Last Sunday I went to Wales Comic Con and had a blast! The guests from The Hobbit were Adam Brown (Ori), Graham McTavish (Dwalin), Ken Stott (Balin), John Bell (Bain son of Bard) and Mark Atkin […]
Graham McTavish, who plays the dwarf Dwalin in The Hobbit, is doing the Kiltwalk in Edinburgh to raise money for the Sick Kids Friends Foundation. The Kiltwalk has three distances but Graham and his team are […]
Peter Jackson has just confirmed on his Facebook page that there will be an extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. At the end of his announcement of the name change for The […]
Last weekend was HobbitCon and cast and fans alike met up to celebrate The Hobbit at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn, Germany. There were lectures and workshops, cast panels, photographs and signings, and of course, a party. Special guests included […]
Ian McKellen has been talking to 3News about The Hobbit and X-Men: Days of Future Past. In the interview Sir Ian says that his days in the big blockbusters may be over. He also talks […]
