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NEW Trailer Reveals Thrain (and much more)!

A brand new trailer for the extended edition of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug has just been released! Perhaps the most exciting part of this trailer is when viewers catch their first glimpse of Thrain in Dol […]

BREAKING: Richard Armitage Completes Final ADR for BOTFA

The finishing touches continue to be added for the final installment of The Hobbit trilogy. Richard Armitage tweeted earlier tonight that he has done his final ADR (Additional Dialog Recording or Automated Dialog Replacement) for […]

BREAKING: Brand New BOTFA Poster Featuring Thranduil

We are only 90 days away from the release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies now! While we anxiously await the long-anticipated theatrical trailer (which is due out sometime next month), this new […]

Join Howard Shore and Doug Adams at New York Comic Con

With less than one month until New York Comic Con, people have been clamoring to find out what panels will be offered and which of their favorite celebrities and artists will attend. For those of you going […]

New Live-Action Trailer for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

A new extended advert for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor features the ranger Talion, the game’s protagonist, as he takes on a small party of Orcs. Throughout the 7-minute short, made by Corridor Digital, we get […]

Warriors of the Westfold: The Farmer’s Faire

The past two weeks we all played at the Farmer’s Faire in Bywater. For many of us it was our first experience with that, so today we’re talking about our impressions about this year’s Farmer’s Faire! […]

Weta Workshop’s First BOTFA ‘Chronicles’ Book Now Available For Preorder!

Weta Workshop has officially begun accepting preorders for their highly anticipated book, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Chronicles – Art and Design. This will be Weta’s fifth book in their impressive Chronicles series and their first book focusing solely […]

‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ Gets Finishing Touches

The time is drawing near! The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will be hitting cinemas in December, and it seems that many of the last elements of the film are being added. Our […]

You Can Now Own Kili’s Runestone!

Thanks to our friends at Weta Workshop, you can now be the proud owner of Kili’s runestone! Earlier this year, Middle-earth News was the first to decode the Dwarvish runes engraved on the frontside of […]

One Man Lord of the Rings Photo Call

Charlie Ross, the man behind “One Man Lord of the Rings” and “One Man Star Wars” is inviting fans to join him in a photo call, but not just any old photo call, one that […]