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Year 2008

 

Rate Video: SMAUG Lonely Mountain Hobbit 09 Laketown DragonVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Oct 13

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By rss@youtube.com (SCODgreenhood) SMAUG The Red Dragon The Lonely Mountain King Under the Mountain Laketown Bard The Hobbit JRR TOLKIEN SCOD Remix Series from JRR Tolkien's THE HOBBIT presented by SCOD Green Hood Directed by Drogo Empedocles Original Author JRR Tolkien Art by many: JRR TOLKIEN Ralph Bakshi Rankin / Bass...

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Oct 9

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By rss@youtube.com (SCODgreenhood) Wood Elves of Mirkwood Forest Thorin's Interrogation The Hobbit JRR TOLKIEN SCOD Remix Series from JRR Tolkien's THE HOBBIT presented by SCOD Green Hood Directed by Drogo Empedocles Original Author JRR Tolkien Art by many: JRR TOLKIEN Ralph Bakshi Rankin / Bass Hildebrandt Miller Jac...

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May of 2009

 

Rate Fantastic legends

Original at thenational.ae external link    Mon, May 11

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WA today  United Arab Emirates Search online for the fan buzz surrounding JRR Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gundrun "and the weird rises to meet you like Gollum coming out of his pond". JRR Tolkien was famously appalled by the eagerness with which American hippies in the 1960s ...

Rate Tolkien Lecture in Cornwall

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Sat, May 9

 New Zealand LoriGreenleaf writes: A Tolkien Lecture is being held on Wednesday 13th May at Tremough Campus, Falmouth, Cornwall. Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien's popular literature will be explored at the Tremough Campus, Falmouth,UK as part of a special ...

Rate Beyond Middle Earth

Original at ottawacitizen.com external link    Sat, May 9

  Canada A "new" book by JRR Tolkien, based on a Norse myth, will be released in 2009. It wasn't until last summer that JRR Tolkien's publishers learned that a fascinating new saga -- unlike anything he had done before -- had surfaced among the legendary ...

Rate Do Wild Boars Guard JRR Tolkien's Work?

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Fri, May 8

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With the publication of JRR Tolkien's 500-stanza epic poem, "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun," the late author's son worried that many readers would find the book difficult. Christopher Tolkien told the Guardian the book follows a Norse poetic cycle ...

Rate New LOTR Film Hits Screens This Week!

Original at Cinematical external link    Tue, May 5

 CA - Peter Martin What's a Tolkien movie fan to do? Hundreds of Hobbit-hungry volunteers in the UK came together to make The Hunt for Gollum, a 40-minute film based on the appendices of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, according to The Guardian. ...

Rate ‘Legend of Siguard' reviews, book on sale today

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Tue, May 5

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 New Zealand JRR Tolkien's newest posthumous work lands in retail today. The body of the non Middle-earth tale is told in two narrative poems told in the form of Norse mythology with a Tolkien lecture and an introduction from his son Christopher. ...

Rate Beyond Middle Earth:unearthed Tolkien book explores Norse myth and ...

Original at Canada.com external link    Mon, May 4

 Canada - Jamie Portman By Jamie Portman, Canwest News ServiceMay 4, 2009 It wasn't until last summer that JRR Tolkien's publishers learned that a fascinating new saga - unlike anything he had ever done before - had surfaced among the legendary author's papers. ...

Rate Book Review Spotlight: JRR Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Original at Library Journal external link    Sun, May 3

Tolkien, JRR The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. May 2009. 377p. ed. by Christopher Tolkien. illus. ISBN 978-0-547-27342-6. $26. LIT Yet another posthumous title by Tolkien (between writing this much and teaching full time when did he sleep? ...

Rate Iconic texts still missing from e-libraries - eSchool News

Original at eSchool News external link    Fri, May 1    3 related articles

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subscription), MD Getting permission to release a book in electronic form can be as hard--or harder--than writing it: It took six years get JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy released in eBook format, more than half as long as Tolkien himself took to write all ...

April of 2009

 

Rate The fight is on to re-open Tolkien pub

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Thu, Apr 30

 New Zealand divetwin points out on our message boards that a campaign has been launched to re-open a pub that was once a haunt of none other than JRR Tolkien's. The story reads: Pub lovers are backing a campaign to return a pub once popular with Lord of the Rings ...

Rate Turbine Celebrates 2nd Anniversary of LOTR Online

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Sun, Apr 26

 New Zealand The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises is the holder of worldwide motion picture, legitimate stage, merchandising, and other rights in JRR Tolkien's literary works The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Tolkien Enterprises has been producing ...

Rate Commercials Companies Can Be Proud Of - istockAnalyst.com

Original at istockanalyst.com external link    Wed, Apr 15

istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR Comcast encompasses all of life just as much as Coke is equivalent to JRR Tolkien’s one ring. Sprint’s (NYSE: S) current advertisement campaign is nothing short of brilliant, as it plays off of the basic consumer drive: to be accepted and/or ...

Rate New Tolkien

Original at Toronto Star external link    Fri, Apr 10

  Canada JRR Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, a previously unpublished narrative poem inspired by the Viking legends, will be released May 5 by HarperCollins Canada. Tolkien, who died in 1973, began the work before the publication of The Hobbit in ...

Rate LOTR: FOTR SCORE PERFORMED LIVE TO PICTURE

Original at Comics2Film external link    Wed, Apr 8

 CA Devoted fans of JRR Tolkien’s classic The Lord of the Rings have read the books, they’ve seen Peter Jackson’s Academy® Award-winning films, and now they will have a chance to experience composer Howard Shore’s Academy® and Grammy®-winning score to The ...

Rate Un article de Robert Silverberg

Original at Actusf external link    Tue, Apr 7

 France All that changed once JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy became a campus craze in the 1960s. Tolkien paperbacks sold by the zillions, and in their wake came the vast hordes of Tolkien imitations, invariably trilogies (though often the first three ...

Rate Tolkien Expert to Speak at UNM

Original at UNM Today external link    Thu, Apr 2

 NM Flieger is a specialist in comparative mythology and a widely recognized Tolkien scholar, whose work has been recognized by numerous awards. Her books include Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, A Question of Time: JRR Tolkien's ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Hobbit Feast

Original at Decider Milwaukee external link    Sat, Mar 28

 WI Though he stumbled with the overlong and bloated remake of King Kong, Peter Jackson created something genuinely amazing with his three-film adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s fantasy masterwork. Epic in scale without losing a human touch, the films hewed more ...

Rate Top 7 Bromance Film Duos of the Past Decade

Original at Scorecard Review external link    Thu, Mar 26

 OR Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin) from the Lord of the Rings trilogy: It has been said that JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is essentially about men struggling with the responsibility of power. ...

Rate Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' lost in translation

Original at Peterborough Examiner external link    Fri, Feb 13

JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an epic tale about an evil ring that falls into the hands of a hobbit named Frodo Baggins (the hobbits are a fictional race of miniature people invented by the author). Aided by three other hobbits, ... The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Review PALGN

Rate The score can be troublesome even for a professional choir

Original at thenational.ae external link    Wed, Feb 11

 United Arab Emirates The music, written to evoke the thrilling vistas and epic drama in the books and films as well as the various civilisations of the author JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth, poses several challenges. The styles jostle amid nine-part harmonies and complex vocal ...

Rate Book Review: Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Original at Blogcritics external link    Sun, Jan 11

 OH - Jan 11, 2009 In this, there are also shades of JRR Tolkien's Gandalf (up to and including blowing dancing and colored smoke rings on occasion). Ultimately, like both his ...

Rate Tolkien’s ‘The Legend of Sigurd’ to be Published

Original at Pop Culture Zoo external link    Fri, Jan 9

 OR - Jan 9, 2009 By Bob Alpi ⋅ January 9, 2009 ⋅ Email this article ⋅ Print this article ⋅ One of JRR Tolkien’s early works, ‘The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún’ is set to ...

Rate Logos: CS Lewis Society (12/8/08)

Original at Narnia Fans external link    Mon, Dec 8

 - Dec 8, 2008 Her error lies in failing to appreciate Lewis’s (and JRR Tolkien’s, Charles Williams’s and GK Chesterton’s) deeper point that all truly good literature, ...

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