January 2011

The Red Book of Westmarch (Archives)

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: Tom Bombadil

  01.19.11 | Kunochan | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Who the hell is Tom Bombadil?

  If your familiarity with Tolkien’s Legendarium comes entirely from the movies, your mystification is easily explained – he wasn’t in the films. But if you have read The Lord of the Rings, you are no doubt still asking the question…

• Hobbit Report, News

  The Hobbit Report: Casting Ramps Up

  01.11.11 | Kunochan | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Major casting is well under way for the two-part adaptation of The Hobbit, with official signatures on the dotted line for Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Andy Serkis (Gollum), Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins), and of course Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins…

• Legendarium, News

  This month in Middle-earth history: January 2011

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

  This month in Middle-earth and Tolkien history: The Fellowship enters Moria and Gandalf gets killed (temporarily); JRR Tolkien and Elijah Wood are born…

• News

  Happy Eleventy-ninth Birthday, JRR Tolkien

  01.03.11 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Author, philologist and mythopoet JRR Tolkien was born on January 3rd, 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province, part of South Africa) to Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857–1896), an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel, née Suffield (1870–1904)…

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