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While we’ve discussed some of the more beautiful parts of LOTRO’s Middle-earth, we haven’t really talked about the scarier or more inhospitable locations. ALICE Starting from the fact that I’m always scared when I’m not […]
Congratulations to the The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug for gaining eight nominations for the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films 40th Saturn Awards. The Hobbit, together with Gravity, topped the list for the […]
Last week, PopVinyls.com shared some great information from Toy Fair 2014. Funko will be releasing three new Hobbit figures in 2014! Tauriel, Bard the Bowman, and – yes! – Smaug himself will join the Hobbit […]
Congratulations to Andy Serkis! Andy is to receive this year’s Vanguard Award in recognition of his work in performance capture. The award will be presented at CinemaCon in March. Andy is, of course, famous for […]
It was a good year, 1971, with all kinds of things happening. Things like an 85-meter-high tornado rising over the Ryukyu Islands in Japan, and, just shortly after The Beatles broke up, another bomb (this time […]
Third Dart Studios has posted the first casting announcement for the film Jack and Tollers: The True Story of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Here is the announcement from the film’s Facebook […]
J. R. R. Tolkien mined his own experience on the front lines during World War I when he created the scenes of terrible battles and heartbreaking loss in The Lord of the Rings. The Birmingham […]
This is so exciting! The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has the top number of nominations in the Jameson Empire Awards and that must, in part, be down to the great number of Middle-earth News readers […]
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit composer Howard Shore will visit Dublin, Ireland, for a concert of his own music in April. “Howard Shore in Dublin” will be introduced by the Academy Award-winning […]
Congratulations! The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has opened in China with thundering box office takings of $32.7 million! This makes it the top Warner Brothers film ever for opening earnings in China. Over three […]
