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Andrew Lesnie, the Academy Award-winning Australian cinematographer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, is to be awarded the Murray Forrest Award for Film Craft at the gala presentation of the 68th Australian […]
Ever see those photos floating around on the web of an origami Nazgul? Jason Ku, the original creator of the 7.3 origami Nazgul model, as changed up his method a bit and has now released […]
Year 2941 – The Hobbit October 8 It’s time to depart Lake-town for Bilbo and the Dwarves October 9 Thorin and Company departs from Lake-town October 11 Third day in boats for Thorin and Company. […]
Want to get fit, raise money for charity, and defeat Middle-earth villains? Then join our news team as we muster for the LOTR Virtual Villains Challenge! The LOTR (Loving Otherworldly Themed Races) Virtual Villains Challenge is a […]
“We should look at green again”: Representations of Nature in Middle-earth to be published 2014 by Walking Tree Publishers The importance and the meaning behind the nature and the environment of Tolkien’s Middle-earth have been […]
Our weekly column “An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth” has been going strong for over a year now! Here’s how it works: Every week, our Middle-earth News reporters seek out Tolkien/Hobbit/LOTR goodness and tag their finds […]
Year 2941 – The Hobbit October 6 Thorin requests supplies at Lake-town At the end of a fortnight Thorin began to think of departure. While the enthusiasm still lasted in the town was the time […]
The current cost of making The Hobbit trilogy is more than double that spent on the three The Lord of the Rings films and rising! APNewsBreak reports that, according to financial documents filed in New […]
“When he [Frodo Baggins] came to himself again, for a moment he could recall nothing except a sense of total dread. Then suddenly he knew that he was imprisoned, caught hopelessly; he was in a barrow. A Barrow-wight […]
Hey! now! Come hoy now! Whither do you wander? Up, down, near or far, here, there or yonder? Sharp-ears, Wise-nose, Swish-tail and Bumpkin, White-socks my little lad, and old Fatty Lumpkin! The Fog on the […]
