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Magical Books – From The Middle Ages To Middle-Earth

Magical Books – From the Middle Ages to Middle-earth is the rather wonderful title of the latest exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The exhibition is of the texts and drawings that the Bodleian holds […]

This Week in Middle-earth

4th June, 2941 [The Hobbit] The company fords the Bruinen and arrives in Rivendell “You are come to the very edge of the Wild, as some of you may know. Hidden somewhere ahead of us […]

This Week in Middle-earth

29th/30th May, 2941 [The Hobbit] Gandalf keeps the trolls arguing until dawn It was just then that Gandalf came back. But no one saw him. The trolls had just decided to roast the dwarves now […]

Happy Birthday, Adam Brown!

Adam Brown, who plays the young dwarf Ori in The Hobbit, is 33 today! Adam was a relatively unknown stage actor when, two and a half years ago, he was plucked from playing King Frog in […]

This Week in Middle-earth

This is a very unlucky week, because there are no events on certain days, so we can only suppose or summarize what happened to our heroes. May 2941 [The Hobbit] We know that Thorin and […]

The Bridge Direct Tantalizes Fans with Comic-Con Exclusive Figure Clues and Giveaway

Hot off The Bridge Direct Press: In honor of The Hobbit‘s 13 dwarves, TODAY is the day that The Bridge Direct will start releasing clues about this year’s San Diego Comic-Con exclusive figure!! All clues – and […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

Nathan Shields uses his unique talent of pancake portraiture to raise money for his children’s college funds. His amazing Hobbit pancakes look too good to eat! Except the Great Goblin. I can think of other reasons not to […]

This Week in Middle-earth

1st May, 2942 [The Hobbit] Gandalf and Bilbo return to Rivendell at the end of Bilbo’s unexpected adventure It was on May the First that the two came back at last to the brink of […]

Ian McKellen’s Pub Tops The List For Sunday Roast

I think all hobbits would agree that a Sunday roast is one of the best things about Sundays! Metro have compiled the votes from reviewers on Yelp to create their Top Ten list of the […]

Willie Nelson Vies For Gandalf (And Magneto)

This Hobbit audition tape was leaked to TeamCoco.com (you can follow them on Twitter @TeamCoco). Before the leak, there were only rumors that Peter Jackson had considered country music legend Willie Nelson for the role […]