Lily’s first experience with Tolkien was when the eccentric Mrs. H performed all of the characters from The Hobbit in her seventh grade class. In high school, she felt obliged to decline a second date with a boy who said he had no interest in reading The Lord of the Rings. In college, she unwisely decided to reread her beloved copy of The Hobbit during finals week, with only semi-disastrous results.
When not writing for Middle-earth News, Lily tries not to unnerve her coworkers and family with her extreme geekery, but somehow, Star Wars, Star Trek, Sherlock, Merlin, Doctor Who, The Princess Bride, Back to the Future, superheroes, Disney movies, and of course, Tolkien, seem to have relevance in EVERY conversation.
In case you missed yesterday’s inaugural daily post, we’ve decided to turn “An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth” from a weekly post to a daily post! We noticed that there were so many Tolkien/Hobbit/LOTR -related stories making headlines that it only seemed […]
“An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth” started out as a weekly post here on Middle-earth News because we noticed that there were some Tolkien/Hobbit/LOTR -related stories that may otherwise have been overlooked in our news coverage. Happily, we […]
Were you wondering why you couldn’t find The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on Netflix or Redbox? The film was released for home viewing last month, but if you were waiting to get your own […]
Audiences might be more familiar with Peter Hambleton’s work in front of the camera as Glóin in The Hobbit films, but in addition to his film, television, and stage work, the New Zealand actor is […]
At Middle-earth News, we may all be Tolkien fans, but we have different ways of expressing our love of Middle-earth. Some of us like the good guys, some of us like the bad guys, and […]
Deviantartist Flocature’s (aka Catherine) newest project is this tiny Hobbit Hole under a glass globe. It is made of Super Sculpey, painted with acrylics, and attached to an adjustable ring base. Catherine promises that it will be available […]
María and Olaya from Oviedo, Spain are going to embark on a quest–A Hobbit Quest! Their aim is to travel to the Wellington premiere of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, but as […]
Actor Manu Bennett was a special guest at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo last weekend, and he shared that he actually drew inspiration for the character of Azog in The Hobbit from the great […]
Sylvester McCoy, who plays the wizard Radagast the Brown in The Hobbit films, will kick off the series of talks at the Cambridge Union, the university’s historic debating society on 4 May. The details of the talks […]
Well that didn’t take long! Only days after Adam Brown, who plays Ori in The Hobbit, posted this selfie of the dwarves at HobbitCon, enterprising artist Leigh created the top image with all of their […]