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Level Your Hero for a Chance to Win a Lifetime LOTRO Subscription

From October 28 to November 10, players between levels 60 and 85 will be eligible to win one of three exciting prizes in LOTRO simply by leveling their character. For every level their character advances, […]

Berlin Premiere for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug?

We are still awaiting official news of where the world premiere of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be held, but it seems that the European premiere may be in Berlin. People applying for […]

New ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Empire Magazine Covers

This month’s issue of Empire Magazine focuses on the next film in The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug. Fans are able to choose from four different covers and not only do they feature some of our […]

Happy Birthday to Jed Brophy!

Happy birthday to Kiwi actor and director, Jed Brophy, who has turned 50! You know Jed not only as Nori the dwarf from The Hobbit trilogy, but as an orc, one of the Nazgûl, a man […]

New Editions of ‘The Lord of the Rings’

The Official J. R. R. Tolkien Book Shop released the latest editions of The Lord of the Rings this week.  These beautiful collector’s clothbound editions feature new cover designs and reproductions of all of Tolkien’s drawings and […]

This Week in Middle-earth

Year 2941 – The Hobbit October 22 Bilbo and the Dwarves still wait at the Hidden Door Next day the dwarves all went wandering off in various directions; some were exercising the ponies down below, […]

BREAKING: Peter Jackson Announces Special Event

A few hours ago, Peter Jackson announced – on his Facebook page – a very special event for the fans all around the world on November 4, 2:00 PM PT / 5:00 PM ET (and […]

Peter Jackson Hopes to Return to Low-Budget Roots Following ‘Hobbit’ Trilogy

After their three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” wraps in 2014, director Peter Jackson and partner Fran Walsh hope to return to their low-budget roots and make more films in the manner of “Heavenly […]

Dwarf Talk

A lot has been said about the camaraderie between the actors playing the dwarves in The Hobbit so, when Dark Horizons visited the set last year, they took the opportunity to ask Graham McTavish (Dwalin), Jed […]

Firing Up Smaug

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug screenplay writers, Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh, have revealed that the character they most enjoyed writing for was Smaug himself! This wasn’t however, an easy task. The dragon, along […]