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Interview with Tolkien Artist Stephen Walsh

Stephen Walsh has the honor of being an artist whose art can be found in hundreds of thousands of homes around the world by way of the popular board game Settlers of Catan. He’s also […]

CAA Signs Andy Serkis

It was just announced that Andy Serkis has signed with CAA (Creative Artists Agency), a prominent sports and entertainment agency in Los Angeles. The agency, whose A-list clients include such stars as George Clooney, Brad […]

Benedict Cumberbatch To Take On Another Villain Role?

If you’ve been following our Movie News, you already know Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing two villains in Peter Jackson’s film adaptions of ‘The Hobbit’: Smaug the dragon and the Necromancer. Consider yourself a true Cumberbatch fan? Then you also […]

Behind the Scenes on “The Hobbit” with Ryan Gage

Ryan Gage is playing Alfrid, the conniving servant of the Master of Laketown, played by Stephen Fry, in The Hobbit. He recently posted a picture on his Facebook and Twitter accounts that gives us a […]

Freeman to Feature in Svengali Film

Martin Freeman is taking a break from filming The Hobbit to star in Svengali, a comedy film about the music business reports tubefilter news.   Production started in London this week on this story of […]

Casual Stroll to Mordor Episode 128

This week we discuss the dev diaries released this week about audacity and weavers. We both participated in the Treasury Hunt and discuss that. Information on upcoming RK changes, updates coming to Icy Crevasse and more!

Sean Bean Talks “Rings” on Jonathan Ross

Sean Bean, who played Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, was on The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday, February, 25. He was there to promote his new film, Cleanskin, but he talked a lot […]

Bret McKenzie wins an Oscar for Muppet Song

Bret McKenzie won  Best Original Song at the Academy awards yesterday.  His song ‘Man or Muppet’ from The Muppet movie won over Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett’s ‘Real in Rio’ from the animated feature Rio reports Stuff.NZ McKenzie […]

Hobbit Actors in NZ Arts Fest. video

    Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Andy Serkis and Bret McKenzie are just some of the actors from The Hobbit who have joined with others to make a crowd-created Shakespeare speech for the New Zealand International Arts […]

The Tolkien Inspired Art of Ruth Lacon

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the universal Tolkien community, it’s that it is full of talented people! But if I’ve learned anything else, it’s that those talented people express their love of Tolkien’s […]