Gandalf and the Charity Car Bonnet
Back in 2012 when Ian McKellen was in New Zealand working on The Hobbit, airbrush artist Talia Pearson asked him to sign some of her work. Talia had painted a tribute to The Hobbit – on a […]
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Warriors of the Westfold: Our Beginnings
Playing a new game can be tough. For most of us Warriors, LOTRO was our first MMO. While there are countless guides and resources available for new players to turn to, sometimes the amount of […]
Server Transfers Now Available in LOTRO
At long last, The Lord of the Rings Online is now offering players the ability to transfer their character between servers. Players will be able to purchase token transfers through the LOTRO Marketplace; one token […]
Live Chat With Evangeline Lilly This Thursday!
The fabulous woman behind the Elf Tauriel, Evangeline Lilly, will be holding a live Twitter chat with fans this Thursday. Evangeline took to Twitter this afternoon to make the announcement. Join me for a […]
Sony to Launch LEGO Hobbit Bundle for PS3
Last week, we provided a more in-depth report on the upcoming LEGO The Hobbit game, which is based on Peter Jackson’s films, rather than Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Sony has announced its launch of a LEGO […]
Barrel Escape Scene – Facts and Figures (vid)
This video from Wired takes us through how they made the barrel scene in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with some amazing facts and figures like: 98 hours of footage was shot to make the […]
Tolkien the Overlooked Poet
Some readers who are new to Tolkien complain about the songs and poems in the books, perhaps thinking that they are not important to the story. But Sarah Wesson, author of the Earful of Cider […]
The City of Minas Tirith Built With 420,000 Matchsticks
I’m always fascinated by the amount of Tolkien-inspired fan art I find on the internet, but I had never seen an entire city built completely out of matchsticks, let alone thousands of matchsticks! The Iowa […]
Ed Sheeran’s “I See Fire” Tops Spotify’s Most Popular List
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug garnered Oscar nominations in three categories (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, and Tony Johnson for Best Sound Mixing, Brent Burge for Best Sound Editing, and Joe Letteri, Eric […]
Middle-earth Dance Party Playlist
Break out Gandalf’s fireworks and ale, it’s time for a Middle-earth dance party! Do you ever want to gather up all of your fellow Tolkien fans and have a party? Imagine it, enough food to […]
