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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 | 7 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…

• 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…

• Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: Aragorn

  07.01.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 5 Comments

  If your sole familiarity with The Lord of the Rings is with the Peter Jackson film trilogy, then you probably only know Aragorn son of Arathorn as the handsome, brooding, scruffy loner with the broken sword who looked so dorky in that crown at the end of the third movie, of which he is the titular character. But there’s a huge backstory behind Aragorn, and this article will fill you in on the basics.

• Legendarium

  This week in Middle-earth history: March 27th – April 3rd

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

  This week in Middle-earth history: Gollum arrives in the Woodland Realm; Dol Guldur is razed; the mallorn at Bag End flowers.

• Features, Humor, Opinion

  Ugly Elves & Inflatable Orcs: Rankin/Bass’ 1977 ‘The Hobbit’ Reviewed

  03.23.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 16 Comments

  Author JRR Tolkien believed that we each have a great sacrifice to make, for the betterment of all humanity. Frodo bore the Ring, for the sake of The Shire; Aragorn walked the Paths of the Dead, for the sake of the Free Peoples; and I watched Rankin/Bass Productions’ 1977 animated television production of “The Hobbit,” for you, my readers.

• 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.

• Legendarium, News, Web Links

  Med students diagnose Gollum with ‘schizoid personality disorder’

  02.22.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 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: 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.

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