Post Tagged with: "The Lord of the Rings"

Happy Birthday, Lawrence Makoare!

Today, Lawrence Makoare celebrates his birthday and Middle-earth News celebrates with him! After portraying Lurtz, the Uruk-hai killing Boromir, the Witchking, and another Orc in The Lord of the Rings, he returned to Middle-earth for […]

Tolkien-themed Cruise Answers the Question, “What’s Next For Hobbit And Lord Of The Rings Fans?”

Official Press Release: Wildly impatient for the release of Peter Jackson’s third installment of The Hobbit trilogy, There and Back Again, the global community of Tolkienites and Ringers are also getting ready to mourn the loss of […]

What Is It to Hear the Author Speak?

In a recent article from The Artifice, H.M. Bradford addresses the questions of artistic responsibility and authorial identity–two concepts that are surprisingly recent–which have developed mostly in the past few hundred years. For millennia, when […]

Happy Birthday, Brad Dourif!

Before the conniving servant Alfrid, there was another devious servant we all love to hate: Grima Wormtongue. In Sir Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Grima Wormtongue was portrayed by the talented actor […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

This awesome triptych featuring Kili, Thorin, and Fili is titled “The Line of Durin” by Adriana Melo. If you are interested in a print, you can contact her through her Tumblr. (Myla Malinalda) The Zaraysky […]

Middle-earth and Strong Female Characters

With the creation of Tauriel in The Hobbit trilogy, the discussion of female characters within Middle-earth arose once again. In the last decades, various discussions, essays, and even entire books examined Tolkien’s creation and representation […]

This Week in Middle-earth

Year 2941 – The Hobbit March 15 Gandalf meets Thorin and talks with him at the Prancing Pony in Bree   Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 10 The Dawnless Day The […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

The Knitting Witch is at it again! We’ve featured her knitted Hobbit characters in a past Eagle’s View, and this time she has blown us away with her knitted version of The Hobbit’s dust jacket. […]

Andy Serkis says avatars should win Oscars

A few days ago, the Academy Awards 2014 where held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Every year, many talented actors, actresses, filmmaker, and artist hope for an Academy Award. With the ever increasing […]

This Week in Middle-earth

Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 3 Théoden retreats to Helm’s Deep Battle of the Horn-burg begins Ents complete the destruction of Isengard March 4 Théoden and Gandalf set out from Helm’s […]