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• 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, Videos, Web Links

  Sir Ian KcKellen teaches YOU how to act like Gandalf

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

  From the Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant sitcom Extras, via YouTube.

• Hobbit Report, News

  The Hobbit Report: December 9, 2009

  12.11.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and 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 | Kunochan | 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.

• Humor

  Scientific Pie Chart: Who Got Shit Done in ‘The Hobbit?’

  11.05.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 2 Comments

  This chart illustrates which characters in The Hobbit actually get any shit done.

• 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.

• Features, Hobbit Report

  The Hobbit Report: August, 2009

  08.26.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Director Guillermo del Toro has confirmed, in an interview with BBC Radio 5, that Sir Ian McKellen will reprise the role of Gandalf in the upcoming two-part film version of The Hobbit. Del Toro also revealed that Hugo Weaving will return as Elrond Half-elven, and Andy Serkis will once again provide the voice and movements for the computer-generated character Gollum.

• Collectibles, News

  Weta Workshop unveils new line of LOTR movie collectibles

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

  Weta Workshop, the special effects company based in Miramar, New Zealand, has acquired a new license from Warner Bros. Consumer Products to create a new line of fine art collectibles and memorabilia based on The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

• Features, Opinion

  Which Characters from the Lord of the Rings Movies Will Appear in The Hobbit?

  06.22.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  What characters from the Lord of the Rings film trilogy could or should appear in the The Hobbit? Let’s run down the list…

• Features, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: The Basic Cosmology of Tolkien’s World

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

  In order to give meaningful background information for characters like Gandalf, Sauron, Galadriel and Elrond, I will have to refer to cosmological and cosmogenic ideas laid out in The Silmarillion, which tells the early history of Tolkien’s world.

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