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  Tolkien’s original art on display today in Oxford

  03.03.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Original art by fantasy author JRR Tolkien will be on display today only, March 4th, at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, in celebration of World Book Day.

• Legendarium, News, Web Links

  Med students diagnose Gollum with ’schizoid personality disorder’

  02.22.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  A psychiatrist and a group of medical students at the Royal Free & University College Medical School in London have diagnosed Gollum, the wretched creature from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, with schizoid personality disorder.

• Hobbit Report, News

  The Hobbit Report: Jackson, del Toro say Maguire is NOT the new Bilbo

  01.19.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Although none of the entities involved have issued official press releases, it has become clear that The Sun newspaper’s report yesterday, that actor Tobey Maguire signed to play the titular role in The Hobbit, was false.

• Hobbit Report, News

  The Hobbit Report: Is Tobey Maguire the new Bilbo?

  01.18.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Today Britain’s The Sun newspaper reported that American actor Tobey Maguire, recently released from any commitment to a fourth Spider-Man film, has accepted the role of young Bilbo Baggins in the two upcoming The Hobbit film adaptations.

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  ‘Lord of the Rings’ featured on dozens of ‘top films of the decade’ lists

  12.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy has been voted the best movie of the past decade by readers of Entertainment Weekly.

  Indeed, the films have been listed, singly or as a trilogy, on dozens of “Best of the Decade” lists. Here is an (incomplete) list.

• Hobbit Report, News

  The Hobbit Report: December 9, 2009

  12.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The production situation for Guillermo del Toro’s two-part The Hobbit adaptation has become clearer in the last week, as it appears that various media and online reports relied too much on casual comments made over the last year by del Toro and executive producer Peter Jackson, rather than official announcements by New Line Cinema.

• Hobbit Report, News

  The Hobbit Report: December 4, 2009

  12.11.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Tolkien movie fans were dismayed to learn this week that production on the two-part The Hobbit feature film will not begin in March 2010, as was previously announced. Producer Peter Jackson told a German film site that principal photography on the Lord of the Rings prequel will not begin until mid-2010 at the earliest.

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  Sauron’s Blog Gets New URL and WordPress Theme

  12.03.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Mouth of Sauron, Lieutenant of Barad-dûr, Herumor’s Heir, and Rightful Chief of the Dúnedain reports that Sauron’s Blog has a new URL and WordPress theme. It’s a refreshing alternative to that Book of Elvish Lies.

• Language, News

  Oxford Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year: ‘Unfriend’

  11.18.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have chosen “unfriend” as its “2009 Word of the Year,” beating out other Internet-oriented neologisms such as “hashtag,” “netbook,” “paywall” and “sexting.”

  Tolkien aficionados may remember the word from The Silmarillion, where it is used twice (once in the form “unfriendship”).

• Hobbit Report, News

  The Hobbit Report: November, 2009

  11.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  John Rhys-Davies, who portrayed Gimli son of Glóin in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, has turned down an offer to appear in the two-part film adaptation of The Hobbit.

  “I’ve already been asked and to be honest with you, I wouldn’t [appear]. I have already completely ruled it out.”

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