Post Tagged with: "The Hobbit"

Devilish Dental Care Taking Dive!

It’s no secret that villains have long suffered under deplorable health conditions. However, with the recent passing of the late Lord Sauron, it seems his former followers are facing a new field of fighting. Baddies […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

Seventeen year-old Alexandra Trim designed these Shire and Mordor themed shoes for a customer. Luckily, she seals all of her shoes to be protected from water and dirt, otherwise one might be too afraid to […]

Pre-order ‘The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug’ Miniatures from Games Workshop

My brother and I spent many, many hours painting our Games Workshop figures for The Lord of the Rings. Honestly, I enjoyed the painting more than the actual gameplay, despite my attempts to go cross-eyed […]

New Pocket-sized Edition of Farmer Giles of Ham

A special 50th Anniversary pocket-sized edition of Farmer Giles of Ham has recently been released on the Tolkien Bookshop site. It comes with a new introduction, a map, the Professor’s notes for a sequel and the […]

Rare Copy ‘The Hobbit’ Goes Under the Hammer

A rare copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary book The Hobbit is to be auctioned by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury on 11 April in their sale of Modern Literature. The press release says: As the third and final part of […]

Congratulations to our Tolkien Book Cover Redesign Contest Winners!

Congratulations to the winners of our Tolkien Reading Day Book Cover Redesign Contest! We had 19 spectacular entries for this competition and it’s been difficult choosing the winners but here are the two covers the […]

Get Talking Tolkien on our New Google+ Community Page!

Today is Tolkien Reading Day! The One Ring has been destroyed, Sauron is vanquished, and the Gondorian New Year is here! To celebrate, we’re launching our very own Google+ Community Page. What we at Middle-earth […]

Tolkien Reading Day Haiku Winners

Tolkien Reading Day Haiku Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our Tolkien Reading Day Haiku Contest! We had a wonderful 115 entries for this competition and it’s been difficult choosing the winners but here are the two haiku’s the staff […]

Happy Birthday To Lee Pace!

Happy birthday to actor Lee Pace who plays Thranduil in The Hobbit! Here are some of the highlights of 1979, the year of his birth: The US Voyager 1 space probe had just revealed the […]

LEGO Hobbit DLC, DEMO Revealed

Three downloadable content packs for LEGO The Hobbit Video Game have been revealed on Eurobricks. “Side Quest Character Pack” The first DLC pack features four characters, including a Dwarf merchant lady, Vacation Saruman, Thranduil’s Elk, […]