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‘Lord of the Rings’ featured on dozens of ‘top films of the decade’ lists
12.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy has been voted the best movie of the past decade by readers of Entertainment Weekly.

Indeed, the films have been listed, singly or as a trilogy, on dozens of “Best of the Decade” lists. Here is an (incomplete) list.
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.