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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 | 2 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…

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: Samwise Gamgee

  08.27.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 4 Comments

  If you think it strange to devote an entire article to someone as small and insignificant in the Legendarium as Samwise Gamgee, then you have bought into Sam’s own view of himself, as nothing but a simple gardener from The Shire.

  But many have suggested that Sam, rather than Aragorn or Frodo, is the main hero of The Lord of the Rings; and this view was promulgated by no less an authority than JRR Tolkien himself…

• Legendarium, News

  This week in Middle-earth history: April 4th – 10th

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

  This week in Middle-earth history: Samwise Gamgee is born, the Gondorians praise the periannath, and Hugo Weaving is born.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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.

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