Casual Stroll to Mordor Episode 153
This week we had a ton of mounted combat information to discuss! A couple new dev diaries have been released and new music.
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BREAKING: Newest ‘Hobbit’ Production Video Is Here!
Peter Jackson just posted the eighth of his video diaries on his Facebook page! Production Diary #8 features Comic-Con, a tiny glimpse of giants, and the end of principal photography. It also includes “bits and […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
Daniel Z “DNL” built this model of Helm’s Deep from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as a promotional display for a store in Oslo. (Rifflo) Wellington jeweler Steph Lusted described her time […]
Swiss Spa Town Overtaken by Tolkien Fans
The residents of Leukerbad, Switzerland, are knee-deep in Middle-earth festival attendees today. This weekend marks the sixth Middle-earth Festival since 2001, an event that was brought back due to popular demand after its last occurrence in 2005. […]
Tolkien and Welsh (Tolkien a Chymraeg): Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Use of Welsh in his Legendarium
As any good Middle-earthling knows, The Lord of the Rings was primarily a linguistic playground for Tolkien, whose created languages captured the imaginations of readers and movie-goers. For those who’d like a deeper look into […]
On A ‘Hobbit’ Romance
At Comic-Con last week, Julia, a female audience member explained that she made her dad change a number of the male characters in The Hobbit to women, including Gandalf and Smaug, because there were no […]
Casual Stroll to Mordor Episode 152
This is a special episode recorded on June 24th, 2012 where we invited follow players and a few LOTRO experts to join us to discuss our thoughts and predictions for Riders of Rohan.
Illustrations from a 1972 Soviet Edition of The Hobbit
You may recall the cover of this edition of The Hobbit, which was shared in a January post. It’s a quirky take on Bilbo and Smaug that makes going There and Back Again look like […]
TFI In One More Week
Sorry to make everyone wait another week for The Founders Inklings, but John (Swordsman in the sky) is out on family vacation. Who ever told him to get a life? Michael is busy preparing some […]
12 Minutes of Hobbit Footage: A Recap
For those of us who were sadly far, far away from Comic Con, the wait to hear exactly what was in the mysterious twelve minutes of footage shown by Peter Jackson at the Hobbit panel […]
