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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: The Real Middle Earth - Extra Feature 5Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Feb 17

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By rss@youtube.com (jansonmedia) http://www.janson.com/dvd/show_title.php?pid=20336 This fascinating documentary takes us in Tolkien's footsteps and investigates the landscapes and buildings, the places and names that helped shape Middle Earth. Sir Ian Holm narrates this fascinating exploration into an imagin...

Rate Video: The Lord of the Rings - The living World of Middle Earth (Part I)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Feb 9

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By rss@youtube.com (Ezekielepharcelis) Author: Ezekielepharcelis Keywords: TheLordoftheRings Tolkien ThelivingWorldofMiddle Earth LotRo LordoftheRingsonline ThamailiSchwarzschild Ezekielepharcelis CityofPraguePhilharmonic CrouchEndFestivalChorus TheFellowshipoftheRing TheProphecy

Rate Video: The Silmarillion - Audio Book - Part 56Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Nov 22

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By rss@youtube.com (RingsradioDrama) J. R. R. Tolkien's epic work laying down the foundations of Middle-Earth. Long before the adventures of Frodo and The Ring, long before Biblo went on his adventure; was the story of how it all began. The Silmarillion. Divided into five parts, The Silmarillion, tells the history of Middle Earth;...

Stories

May of 2009

 

Rate The Piano Lesson's characters have lots to say but little to do.

Original at Chicago Reader external link    Wed, May 20

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The effect is to create the illusion of a complete world extending beyond the limits of the play itself—sort of like what JRR Tolkien accomplished in “The Lord of the Rings” with all those mythologies and maps of Middle Earth. ...

Rate New Lord Mayor of Birmingham appointed

Original at BirminghamMail.net external link    Wed, May 20

 UK Raised in the Black Country, he went to school and university in Birmingham before settling in Hall Green with wife Vivienne, the new Lady Mayoress. The couple share a passion for the works of JRR Tolkien and organise the annual Middle Earth Weekend. ...

Rate Hall Green councillor appointed as new Lord Mayor of Birmingham

Original at Birmingham Post external link    Tue, May 19

 UK The couple share a passion for the works of JRR Tolkien and are very active in the promotion of the Lord of the Rings author, through the Birmingham Tolkein Group, the drama group Shire Producations and as organisers of the annual Middle Earth Weekend. ...

Rate JRR Tolkien fans have fun in the rain at Middle Earth Weekend

Original at BirminghamMail.net external link    Mon, May 18

 UK FANTASY fans had a magical weekend in a Birmingham suburb transformed into a scene from Middle Earth to celebrate author JRR Tolkien. About 5000 of them went along to the tenth Middle Earth Weekend at Sarehole Mill, in Hall Green, a former childhood ...

Rate After storybook boom, Bend faces a tough chapter

Original at OregonLive.com external link    Sat, May 16

 OR It's hardly the storybook ending JRR Tolkien might have written for a project that symbolized the extremes of Bend's legendary boom. But central Oregon has become the Middle Earth of unemployment -- at 17 percent, Bend suffers the second-highest rate ...

Rate Manitowoc theater presents 'The Hobbit'

Original at Herald Times Reporter external link    Thu, May 14

 WI novel by JRR Tolkien features sword fighting, choreographed by combat expert, Christopher Elst of Milwaukee; a spooky spider dance, choreographed by Cari Jaeger of Manitowoc; and a setting of Middle Earth designed by Tony Olson of Sheboygan. ...

Rate Monstrous fun laid on at Tolkien weekend

Original at BirminghamMail.net external link    Wed, May 13

 UK SWORD-WIELDING warriors, fire-breathing dragons and magical monsters will be on the prowl in Birmingham for the tenth annual Middle Earth Weekend. The life and works of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien will be celebrated with a weekend of adventure ...

Rate Here and back again.

Original at kinless (WordPress) external link    Sun, May 10

Just watched a documentary about J.R.R. Tolkien and decided to join the wife in Middle Earth for a bit. Our earlier couple, a Champion and a ... kinless.wordpress.com

Rate Poetry shows another side of Tolkien

Original at The Olympian external link    Sun, May 10    2 related articles

 WA Before JRR Tolkien was known as the master fantasy writer behind “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit,” he was fascinated with Norse mythology. Lost for 70 years, buried among his papers, were two poems he wrote concerning “the Volsung and Niflung ... Beyond Middle Earth Ottawa Citizen

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 What else does Tolkien have up his sleeve?

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    Tue, May 5

 UK The Middle-Earth Children's Songbook A charming collection of Olde Englande folk songs, including How Much is That Hobbit in the Window and Brown Girl in the Lord of the Ring, that JRR might have once sung to Christopher when he was a child. ...

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 JRR Tolkien fans await latest book, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

Original at Telegraph.co.uk external link    Sat, May 2

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He added: "It is something completely different from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but incredibly fascinating. It will be of value in shedding light on how Tolkien perceived the source material." Tolkien's Middle Earth fantasy novels have sold ...

April of 2009

 

Rate The terms of Tolkien

Original at St. Joseph external link    Sat, Apr 25

by Blake Hannon Acclaimed fantasy author JRR Tolkien had quite the imagination. He dreamed up the world of Middle Earth in his classic “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which was later brought to the screen to become modern-day classics. ...

Rate HC turns Middle Earth digital

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Mon, Apr 20

 New Zealand From thebookseller.com: JRR Tolkien will move into the digital age as HarperCollins begins selling his Lord of the Rings series as enhanced e-books. As The Bookseller went to press, the publisher said it was planning to issue Tolkien's entire back ...

Rate The Whole Point of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Original at msokorea.com external link    Sat, Apr 18

 South Korea The appeal of this epic tale isn抰 the writing; it抯 the rich detail and history of the world Tolkien created. Reading The Lord of the Rings is like putting on your hiking boots and taking a stroll in Middle Earth.

Rate Ribble Valley brewery goes into liquidation

Original at Lancashire Telegraph external link    Wed, Apr 8

 UK At last week’s Middle Earth Beer Festival, Hurst Green, the company launched a special beer for the event called 1420. The name of the beer referred to a special date within the Lord of the Rings books written by JRR Tolkien. ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Three-day Ribble Valley beer festival with Tolkien theme

Original at Lancashire Telegraph external link    Wed, Mar 25

 UK The Middle Earth Beer Festival has been organised and sponsored by The Aspinall Arms, in Mitton, and takes its name from the Ribble Valley’s location as the geographical centre of the UK. Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien was believed to be a big ...

Rate Exploring Middle-Earth: The Rift

Original at Massively external link    Thu, Feb 26

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By Colin Brennan While the high level area "The Rift" never made it into the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, it is another great example of how Turbine was able to expand the lore of The Lord of the Rings without treading on his toes and ripping apart the world. It is also the subject of the exploring Middle-Earth colu...

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 Troubles in Middle Earth? New Line Being Sued by the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien

Original at First Showing external link    Tue, Feb 12

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By Alex Billington Talk about kicking New Line when they're already down! The Tolkein Trust, a British charity that manages the estate of legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien, and publisher HarperCollins decided to file a lawsuit against New Line Cinema earlier today for $150 million. Their claim is that they hav...

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