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We’ve decided to turn “An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth” from a weekly post to a daily post! We noticed that there were so many Tolkien/Hobbit/LOTR related stories making headlines that it only seemed fair to keep you up-to-date with all […]
Happy Birthday to Cate Blanchett, who is 45 today! Cate is known to Tolkien’s fans for her portrayal of Lady Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected […]
In March 2014, Harper Collins announced that a new edition of The Lord of the Rings was to be released in June 2014 to mark the 60th anniversary of the book’s publication. Now, Harper Collins […]
John Rhys-Davies celebrates his 70th birthday today! John was born on May 5, 1944, in Ammanford, Wales, United Kingdom. The actor is well-known to fans of The Lord of the Rings films as the stalwart […]
From The Hobbit panel at Wales Comic Con we learned that Graham McTavish has a collection of prosthetic noses categorised by dwarf, that rolling resets (when a whole scene is acted again rather than cut) becomes […]
Nic Healey of CNET Australia recently sat down with Dave Clayton, Animation Supervisor at Weta Digital. In the video interview, Clayton shared a number of fascinating tidbits about some of the Oscar-nominated visual effects in […]
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Few days ago Peter Jackson announced a new title for the third Hobbit film: The Battle Of The Five Armies. This change highlights the biggest event along Bilbo’s journey, and […]
Peter Jackson has just confirmed on his Facebook page that there will be an extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. At the end of his announcement of the name change for The […]
Sir Peter Jackson has just announced on his Facebook page that the third and final Hobbit film will be titled The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, ending recent speculation about a possible title […]
Since every one of us here at Middle-earth News is first of all a devoted fan of Tolkien’s marvelous universe, we often dream, with an occasional sigh of longing, of a quiet and benign life […]
