Mark Atkin Interview from HobbitCon
With the convention season being in full swing, the cast and crew of The Hobbit trilogy is busy as ever, giving one interview after another. A few weeks ago at Hobbitcon, Mark Atkin sat down […]
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Middle-earth overlapping Earth
“I have, I suppose, constructed an imaginary time, but kept my feet on my own mother-earth for place.” Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: 211 To Rhona Beare Tolkien once mentioned in one of his […]
Venue For Early Jackson Movie Up For An Award
Ilam Homestead, a venue where many scenes from Peter Jackson’s early film Heavenly Creatures were filmed, has been nominated for The New Zealand Commercial Project Awards to be announced in May. Ilam Homestead has long been associated with […]
Young Hobbit Fan Meets Andy Serkis
Rays Of Sunshine is a British charity organization that helps grant the wishes of kids with serious illnesses between the ages of 3- 18. Huddesfield’s Edward Loyd-Hughes, diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis (CF), was among the lucky ones […]
The J.R.R. Tolkien Manuscripts: Public Showings in 2014
It’s a small wonder we consider film as the form of art that speaks the clearest to our minds. And there’s also nothing new in when we say that the mind is a queer thing […]
Happy Birthday to Benedict Cumberbatch!
The year of 1976 in England forever marked the history with some very impressive athletic achievements–football fans had a good time, and the Brits were a grand success at the Olympics. British and Icelandic ships […]
Hear J R R Tolkien’s childhood in a Birmingham audio walk
J.R.R. Tolkien’s imagination was fired by a difficult childhood spent mostly in Birmingham. “Light From the Shadows” is a Birmingham Repertory Theatre Neighbourhood REP project in collaboration with Hall Green Library, created by writers Charlotte […]
