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• Features, Humor, Opinion

  Glow-in-the-Dark Hobbits & Homophobic Frodos: Rankin Bass’ 1980 “The Return of the King” Reviewed

  08.10.11 | Kunochan | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Here, my fellow Tolkien fans, is my review of The Return of the King. Produced by Rankin Bass and Studio Ghibli predecessor Topcraft, this television special aired May 11, 1980 as a very unofficial sequel to Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings, which only covered Fellowship and most of Two Towers…

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: The Shire

  09.28.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 3 Comments

  There are two locations that appear in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings that play central roles in both stories, and that can themselves be described fairly as “characters.” One of them is Rivendell, the sanctuary and fortress of Elrond Halfelven.

  The other is the Shire, the homeland of that prosperous and agrarian race, the Hobbits…

• Events, Legendarium, News

  This week in Middle-earth history: April 11th – 17th

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

  This week in Middle-earth history: The Shadow of the Past; Tolkien’s parents are married; Sean Bean born; “The Children of Húrin” published.

• Legendarium

  This week in Middle-earth history: March 7-13

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

  This week in Middle-earth history: Frodo and Sam are taken prisoner by Faramir; Aragorn travels the Paths of the Dead, and defeats the Corsairs of Umbar.

• Legendarium

  This week in Middle-earth history: February 28 – March 6

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

  This week in Middle-earth history: Frodo and Sam capture Gollum in the Emyn Muil; Aragorn is born; the Second Battle of the Fords of Isen; Isengard destroyed.

• Humor

  What That Ringwraith Was Thinking in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’

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

  What that Ringwraith that confronted Frodo in Osgiliath was really thinking.

• Humor

  If Tom Bombadil Had Appeared in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’

  01.24.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 5 Comments

  If Tom Bombadil had appeared in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings,” it may have gone something like this.

• 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.

• Features, Opinion

  Jackson versus Tolkien – a long-overdue list of gripes

  02.16.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Let me be clear — I love the movies. Love them. I genuinely do not believe that any other filmmaker on the planet would have done as good a job as Mr. Jackson… But here are my major gripes, as far as changes from the books.

• Web Links

  BBC re-releases LOTR audio play

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

  TheOneRing.net has posted a review of the BBC’s 1981 radio dramatization of The Lord of the Rings, starring Ian Holm as Frodo.

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