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	<description>Aiya! Periannath.com is a weblog for the genuine Tolkien aficionado.  There are no 13-year-old Orlando Bloom fans here. Get news and features about the writings, the legendarium, the languages, collectibles and games, and yes, the movies.</description>
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		<title>The Hobbit Report: Jackson, del Toro say Maguire is NOT the new Bilbo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hobbit Report: December 9, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hobbit Report: December 4, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien&#8217;s career in espionage greatly exaggerated</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of information released by a British government agency last week, news media globally have been reporting on the supposed “spy” career of author and philologist JRR Tolkien.

If it’s hard to imagine the introverted, scholarly Oxford professor traveling the world, assassinating Nazis and bedding beautiful French Resistance fighters between swigs of a martini, shaken – not stirred, you are right to be skeptical. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; films in trouble (again) as MGM mulls bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Peter Jackson-produced two-part The Hobbit adaptation, scheduled to begin principal photography early next year, has dodged a lawsuit that might have derailed the entire project. But now the films are in danger again, as motion picture studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer considers declaring bankruptcy.]]></description>
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		<title>Confirmed: Settlement reached in Tolkien v. New Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An official announcement has confirmed the story that TheOneRing.net broke last week, that the parties in a lawsuit that could have derailed production of the upcoming The Hobbit films have reached a settlement.]]></description>
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		<title>Part of CS Lewis/JRR Tolkien manuscript found</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A professor at Texas State University–San Marcos believes he has discovered all that exists of a book that JRR Tolkien and close friend CS Lewis intended to write together. The book, to be called Language and Human Nature, was scheduled for publication in 1950. But it appears that the only work done on the manuscript was a few opening pages by Lewis...]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Elrond Half-elven</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Tolkien’s Legendarium, there were three great romances between and an Elf and a Man. (In Tolkien’s writing, “Man” is gender neutral, and is equivalent to “human.”) The first was Beren the Man and Lúthien Tinúviel; the second Tuor the Man and Idril Celebrindal; the third Elessar Telcontar (better known as Aragorn) and Arwen Undómiel, who marry at the end of The Lord of the Rings.]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Sauron Gorthaur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sauron is the titular character and primary villain of The Lord of the Rings. He is introduced as The Necromancer in The Hobbit; and his origins and history are recounted in The Silmarillion. But who is Sauron? Why is he so evil? And how did he become so obsessed with locating missing jewelry?]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out, Easterlings &#8212; Lord of the Rings Online to launch in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shanghai, China's CDC Games will launch a local version of Turbine's The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (aka LOTRO) by the end of the year. LOTRO, a massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on Tolkien's novel, was launched in North America in April 2007 by the developer, Westwood, Massachusetts-based Turbine. As of February of this year, the game had 300,000 subscribers.]]></description>
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