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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, 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.

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: How to tell apart Saruman and Sauron

  04.13.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 5 Comments

  As an aficionado of the original books, I find it strange that viewers of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy have trouble telling the difference between the villain characters Sauron and Saruman. But I have heard from more than one intelligent, attentive moviegoer that they were confused on this issue. So let’s get this cleared up…

• 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.

• Events, Tolkien 101

  Happy eleventy-eighth birthday to ‘Lord of the Rings’ author JRR Tolkien

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

  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, Oxford University professor, and author of the globally beloved fantasy epics The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was born eleventy-seven years ago today, on January 3rd, 1892, in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.

• Features

  Ten new year’s resolutions for fans of ‘The Lord of the Rings’

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

  Whether you were introduced to Tolkien by Orlando Bloom’s shield-surfing antics, or if you have read The Lord of the Rings every summer since the 3rd grade (guilty), there is always more you can do to become the Tolkien superfan you have always aspired to be.

  Here are ten suggestions…

• 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.

• News

  ‘The Hobbit’ first published 72 years ago this week

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

  Seventy-two years ago yesterday, JRR Tolkien’s first novel, The Hobbit, was published by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London.

  The 1,500 copies of the first printing sold out by the end of that year, 1937.

• Features, Humor

  If LOTR Had Been Written By a Game Developer

  08.11.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 4 Comments

  “Frodo!” Gandalf cried, as the old man rose up suddenly proud and strong like an elf king of old. “The armies of Mordor stand at the gates of Minas Tirith! Rohan has fallen, and Erebor is is besieged! The hour is late, and the Ring must be destr—is that really a Silmaril?”

• Language

  Tolkien word of the day: ‘mathom’

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

  A mathom is an item, usually received as a gift, which has no genuine use, but cannot be thrown away because it is too valuable, or because the gift-giver will be offended.

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