Feast Week, Day 3: The Feast of Gildor
Today, we continue Tolkien Feast Week with Day 3: The Feast of Gildor. After their first scary encounter with a Black Rider, the Hobbits luckily cross paths with some Elves, lead by Gildor, who invites […]
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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 […]
‘Tolkien at Exeter College’ Published
Exeter College of Oxford University has published a new booklet about the life of J. R. R. Tolkien as an undergraduate student in the college. John Garth, author of Tolkien and the Great War, wrote […]
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 […]
New Smaug Shirt from Weta
The amazing folks over at Weta Workshop just released another shirt for the second installment of The Hobbit trilogy and this time it features our favorite greedy and merciless dragon, Smaug. Before you get it in your head that this is just […]
