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Get your Bear on, LOTRO fans: New Class Revealed!

Our waiting and anticipation for Lord of the Rings Online’s (LOTRO) new class announcement has finally come to an end. Minutes ago, LOTRO Executive Producer, Aaron Cambell, revealed the new class in a letter to […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

Etsy seller The Green Dragon Inn creates beautiful travel posters for the lands of Middle-earth. In addition to the Rivendell poster above, you’ll find lovely posters for Rohan, Gondor, The Shire, Mount Doom, and other […]

LOTRO’s Update 13 Launches Monday, April 14

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, April 14 from 7: 00AM – 12:00PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to launch Update 13: The Breaking of Isengard. Players can expect some of the following […]

The Tolkien Inspired Music of Martin Romberg

The orchestral compositions by full time composer, Martin Romberg, are some of the most beautiful original Tolkien music I have ever heard. When I first heard about his music I was very excited to hear […]

Adam Roberts to give Pembroke Tolkien Lecture

Professor Adam Roberts will deliver the second annual Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. The press release says: Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has […]

Sean Bean and Stephen Fry Recite Poetry for WWI Album

Sean Bean, known for his portrayal of Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, and Stephen Fry, portraying the Master of Laketown in The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, are both part of an album containing […]

This Week in Middle-earth

Year 3018 – The Lord of the Rings April 12 Gandalf reaches Hobbiton It was over nine years since Frodo had seen or heard of him [Gandalf], and he had begun to think that the […]

Richard Armitage in ‘Final Discussions’ to appear at Old Vic Starting June 2014

The Daily Mail is reporting that The Hobbit‘s Richard Armitage is in final discussions to appear in a new production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at London’s Old Vic Theatre. The show is slated to […]

Richard Armitage Talks with the German Tolkien Society

Earlier today, the German Tolkien Society (Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft, or DTG) published their March 31, 2014, phone interview with Richard Armitage. The actor joined DTG Chairman Tobias M. Eckrich and colleagues to discuss a wide […]

Union claims NZ ‘ripped off’ by ‘Hobbit’ tax ploys

In the past, many controversies overshadowed the production process of The Hobbit, and these controversies did not cease after the release of the first two films. After the release of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, unions […]