Art and Literature News

A ‘Hobbit’ Nail Art Tutorial

This is the first post by a special Middle-earth News guest contributor, @FleurDeGaite. She is kindly providing a tutorial on Hobbit inspired nail art. I’ll let her take it from here! Nail Art The Hobbit […]

Sign Up Soon for The Tolkien Professor’s Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon

Calling all Boston-area Lord of the Rings fans! It’s time to sign up for a fun and fantastic day-long movie marathon hosted by The Tolkien Professor, Corey Olsen! It includes food, fun, and geeky fellowship. Sign […]

“The Iron Parachute” By Cor Blok Soon To Be Released Through Oloris Publishing

Between 1958 and 1962, Dutch artist Cor Blok created 140 illustrations for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. These were among the earliest attempts at visualizing the story. Cor Blok visited The Professor in […]

Peter Hollens Completes ‘Hobbit’ Set and Makes Us Cry with ‘The Last Goodbye’

Peter Hollens has entertained us with music from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, and he has now performed all of the end credit songs from each of our journeys into Middle-earth. “The Last Goodbye,” the […]

Dr. Higgen’s Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’

Available now from Oloris Publishing, Dr. Deborah A. Higgen’s Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ will add to the field of Tolkien scholarship a detailed study of how Tolkien entered into […]

“The Last Goodbye” Covers pt. 2

Last week we posted an article highlighting some brilliant covers of The Hobbit:The Battle of the Five Armies’ end credits song, “The Last Goodbye,”  and since there are so many great videos we decided to do […]

“The Last Goodbye” Covers pt. 1

With fans as brilliant and talented as ones in the Tolkien community, it was only a matter of time before some covered the end-credits song for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, “The Last Goodbye”. We’ve […]

Billy Boyd’s ‘The Last Goodbye’ Makes Spotify’s Top 10

Spotify released a list of the “most viral tracks” for last week, and we were happy to see Billy Boyd’s “The Last Goodbye” on the UK list! We always knew the Brits had good taste, […]

An Exclusive Interview with Doug Adams pt. 2

For the second part of the interview, Doug Adams talks about he and Howard Shore’s first New York Comic Con and The Lord of the Rings live concerts including the ones at Lincoln Center next Spring.  The first part […]

An Exclusive Interview with Doug Adams pt. 1

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Doug Adams, author of The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films, and in this first part of the interview we talk about his experiences working on the The […]