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LOTR 60th Anniversary Luxury Vacation

Do you want to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of The Lord of the Rings with a trip to New Zealand? If the answer is “yes” and you have a lot of cash […]

Feast Week, Day 2: Sleeping Outdoors

‘Leaving the road they went into the deep resin-scented darkness of the trees, and gathered dead sticks and cones to make a fire. Soon they had a merry cackle of flame at the foot of […]

Show Off Your Culinary Creation in our Feast Week Contest!

What better way to celebrate the works of J. R. R. Tolkien than by joining in the favorite activities of hobbits: cooking and eating. Feast Week provides the perfect excuse for showing your own hobbit-like […]

Feast Week, Day 1: Bilbo and Frodo’s Birthday

Happy Hobbit Day and welcome to the first day of Feast Week! This particular day holds great meaning to all Tolkien fans as it is both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ birthday. It is also the […]

Celebrate Tolkien Week with Our Limerick Contest

In honour of Tolkien Week (and Feast Week), Middle-earth News is holding a Tolkien-inspired Limerick Contest. The rules are simple and anyone is free to participate. This is your chance to write a limerick on anything Tolkien […]

This Week in Middle-earth

Year 2941 – The Hobbit September 21 Bilbo arranges for the escape from the Elvenking’s palace Some of them were wine-barrels, and these were not much use, as they could not easily be opened at […]

The Future of Middle-earth

When the events of The Lord of the Rings begin to take place, Middle-earth is identified to be a dying world “for lack of reproduction” (Drout 26). The time of Elves and Ents comes to […]

One Man Lord of the Rings Photo Call

Charlie Ross, the man behind “One Man Lord of the Rings” and “One Man Star Wars” is inviting fans to join him in a photo call, but not just any old photo call, one that […]

This Week in Middle-earth

Year 2941 – The Hobbit Late August The company is first captured by spiders and later by the Wood-elves   Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings August 28 The travellers overtake Saruman Saruman […]

The Brisbane Tolkien Fellowship Unites for Children’s Literacy

The Brisbane Tolkien Fellowship are a group of passionate fans who work to share their love of all things Tolkien with the community, while raising funds for children’s literacy charity The Pyjama Foundation. The Fellowship are bonded by […]