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September 2009

The Red Book of Westmarch (Archives)

• Web Links

  Sauron’s Blog #51: Rooting Out Elves Is Like Digging for Chiggers

  09.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  …guess who gave these idiotic Elves the idea to build hidden cities? No, guess! Ulmo! Remember that asshole? He’s the Valar responsible for water. Wow, that’s great, Ulmo — you’re in charge of one entire molecule! Me, I designed the metaphysical template of the cosmos, and was responsible for designing all the transition elements and all the metals and metalloids. And antimatter. And dark matter. But you’ve got dihydrogen oxide. Good work, dude!

• Features

  Today in Middle-Earth history: September 29th

  09.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  In 3021, Bilbo and Frodo, joined by Gandalf, Galadriel and Círdan, leave Middle-earth, sailing west presumably to Tol Eressëa, off the shores of the Undying Lands.

• Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: Ringwraiths

  09.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  …Men were the perfect victims for the rings. Nine heroes, sorcerers and kings of Men accepted the rings, gaining seeming power and unnaturally long life. But after a few centuries, it became clear the rings were a curse rather than a gift. The nine Men were enslaved by the rings, and by the Dark Lord wearing the One Ring. Their bodies faded away, until the Men were nothing but invisible, undead shades enslaved by Sauron. They became the Nazgûl or “Ringwraiths,” the greatest of Sauron’s servants.

• News

  Tolkien’s career in espionage greatly exaggerated

  09.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  In the wake of information released by a British government agency last week, news media globally have been reporting on the supposed “spy” career of author and philologist JRR Tolkien.

  If it’s hard to imagine the introverted, scholarly Oxford professor traveling the world, assassinating Nazis and bedding beautiful French Resistance fighters between swigs of a martini, shaken – not stirred, you are right to be skeptical.

• News

  ‘The Hobbit’ films in trouble (again) as MGM mulls bankruptcy

  09.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The Peter Jackson-produced two-part The Hobbit adaptation, scheduled to begin principal photography early next year, has dodged a lawsuit that might have derailed the entire project. But now the films are in danger again, as motion picture studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer considers declaring bankruptcy.

• Humor, Web Links

  What if ‘The Hobbit’ was a Nigerian 419 scam?

  09.25.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  In view of this, I received your contact through a friend and counselor, an ingenious wizard, who noted you as a Burglar who wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward. And I and my twelve companions have agreed to give you 10% of the total gold and jewels that the dragon Smaug now rests upon if you can join us on our long journey. When you have agreed please tell us the place where you dwell and send one hundred pence so that we might travel to you.

• News

  ‘The Hobbit’ first published 72 years ago this week

  09.22.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  Seventy-two years ago yesterday, JRR Tolkien’s first novel, The Hobbit, was published by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London.

  The 1,500 copies of the first printing sold out by the end of that year, 1937.

• Features

  Today in Middle-Earth history: September 22nd (Happy Birthday Bilbo & Frodo!)

  09.22.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  On September 22nd, 2890 TA, Bilbo Baggins was born to Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Baggins (née Took), probably at Bag End.

  Precisely 78 years later, on September 22nd, 2968 TA, Frodo Baggins was born to Drogo Baggins and Primula Baggins (née Brandybuck), probably at Brandy Hall in Buckland.

• News

  Confirmed: Settlement reached in Tolkien v. New Line

  09.22.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 3 Comments

  An official announcement has confirmed the story that TheOneRing.net broke last week, that the parties in a lawsuit that could have derailed production of the upcoming The Hobbit films have reached a settlement.

• News

  Rumor: Settlement Reached in Tolkien v. New Line

  09.02.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  Leading Lord of the Rings movie blog TheOneRing.net is reporting that a tentative settlement has been reached in the lawsuit between the heirs of author JRR Tolkien and New Line Cinema. The suit threatened to derail production of New Line’s upcoming two part film adaptation of The Hobbit.

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