The Hobbit Wall Calendar Is Out!
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey wall calendar is out and it’s stunning! The calendar has pictures of the dwarves in groups of two or three as well as individual pictures of Thorin, Bilbo, Gandalf, Elrond, […]
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The Hobbit Ranks Fifth in NPR’s Top One Hundred List of Young Adult Novels
NPR recently published their Top 100 Best-ever Teen Novels list, with The Hobbit predictably occupying a comfortable spot at number five. The Lord of the Rings sits only two spots down at number seven. The pollsters […]
BBC News Covers Return of the Ring in Pictures
The BBC covered the Return of the Ring Convention with a slideshow on their news site today! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19317810
Cumberbatch Gives Us An Eye-Opener
Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed how he thinks Smaug will be introduced in The Hobbit. According to Bleeding Cool, the journalist Ann Richardson has said that, in a recent interview Benedict said, “I think my eye might […]
Air NZ’s New Safety Video Hobbit-Style
Air New Zealand have really taken The Hobbit theme to heart. Two of their planes will be turned into giant billboards for the films and soon passengers will be treated to a Hobbit-style safety video. […]
Happy Birthday to Sylvester McCoy!
Sylvester McCoy turns 69 today! Many fans will recognize Sylvester McCoy from his days playing The Seventh Doctor in the television series Doctor Who. But did you know he was the second choice to play […]
Peter Jackson, Alan Lee, John Howe Greetings to the Tolkien Society from New Zealand
We are proud to announce an exclusive video released to the Middle-earth Network from the Tolkien Society Return of the Ring 2012 convention in Loughborough, England. As reported earlier, this video was graciously sent by […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
This fantastic shirt portrays the locations of The Lord of the Rings on a Tube Map resembling the London Underground and is available on Threadless.com. (I hear the Moria station is a thing to behold, […]
Return of the Ring! Live!
If you want the flavor of actually being at the Return of the Ring Conference at Loughborough University, England, our intrepid Guinness sipping Co-Founder John DiBartolo, is there and broadcasting live as time and places […]
Life in NZ is Bloomin’ Marvellous
Filming The Hobbit was a big project, taking some 18 months to complete so, understandably, many of the actor’s families decamped to New Zealand too, including Orlando Bloom’s wife, model Miranda Kerr and son Flynn. Orlando’s role […]
