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By rss@youtube.com (gameboyuk) As the world's first and only Massively Multiplayer Online Game based on the Books of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Online - Shadows of Angmar allows players to discover their heroic destiny in the ongoing struggle for Middle-earth. Players of all levels can explore an incredible set...

By Altaira J.R.R. Tolkien was the fifth top earning dead celebrity on Forbes’ list, earning $50 Million last year. From Forbes.com: The creator of hobbits and Middle Earth languages left a lasting legacy for his fans and family with The Lord of the Rings franchise. The Tolkien estate and publisher Harpe...

By xoanon Mr. Smeagirl sends along an original Hildebrandt painting up for auction on fineart.ha.com, the description: GREG HILDEBRANDT (American b. 1939) and TIM HILDEBRANDT (American 1939 – 2006). J .R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth, book cover, 1977. Acrylic on board (22.75 x 14.25 in.), Signed l...

By xoanon WIRED.com: J.R.R. Tolkien 1916J.R.R. Tolkien was a leading scholar of the English language’s Anglo-Saxon roots, and he invented entire languages for his legendary Middle Earth narratives. According to a new restricted exhibit at Britain’s intelligence-agency Government Communications...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) For his next project Williams decided to directly tackle the epic fantasy genre with a full-on, Tolkien-esque epic meant to rival (and in some cases redress) The Lord of the Rings. Whilst acknowledging that the earlier work was a substantial masterpiece, Williams felt that Tolkien let s...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Meanwhile, China Mieville seems to have relaxed his Tolkien-sceptic stance in his old age and has written an article focusing on the 'cool stuff' in Middle-earth here. As he says, and it cannot be argued against too strongly, "Tolk gives good monster."

The Tolkien Industry Why do we no longer see works of the calibre of Barbara Strachey's delightful Journeys of Frodo: An Atlas of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1981), or Karen Fonstadt's Atlas of Middle-earth (1981 / see 2001), in the (potentially) far less ...

“The Hobbit,” based on the book by JRR Tolkien, is set before the events of the author's “LOTR” series, and follows Frodo Baggins' uncle, Bilbo, and his adventures in acquiring the one Ring. Del Toro intends on splitting the book into two films, ... Well Duh on THE HOBBIT Casting IESB.NET

As anybody that's been around our site long enough knows I'ma huge Tolkien fan, and a History of Middle Earth nut, but I'm also a fan of the movies, and when I say I “like the movies from what they are” it's not at all intended to be pandering. ... HOBBIT Stars Confirmed Returning Mania

 Malaysia JRR Tolkien first used it in 1937 in his stories set in Middle Earth. It took some time to find its way into the dictionaries. Certainly Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary and The Random House Dictionary of the English Language did not have the word ...

Pre-registration will end soon for MerpCon V, a Middle-earth role playing convention to be held this July 24th-26th in Spokane, Washington. MerpCon (Middle-earth Role Playing Convention) is an annual international event dedicated to Tolkien enthusiasts ...

Harvard University, America's Best College if you believe US News & World Report, will host a Tolkien-based course this Summer. The class, entitled "Tolkien as Translator: Language, Culture & Society in Middle Earth," will be taught by Anthropology ...

Bilbo Baggins is the title character of 1937's The Hobbit, Tolkien's first published novel that takes place in Middle Earth. The story is told from Bilbo's perspective; in fact, although this is not indicated in the novel itself, it was Tolkien's ...

 UK Just when you thought it was all finally over, here's another chance to immerse yourself in a fantastical trip to Middle Earth. The appetite for Tolkien-inspired storytelling is as voracious as ever, so this low-budget offering is all the more ...

  Canada And that posed a difficult question to the keepers of the Tolkien legacy. Would fans accept a diversion from their beloved Middle Earth and accompany Tolkien into a new mythic world evoked through verse rather than the dramatic prose style of the Lord ...

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  Canada And that posed a difficult question to the keepers of the Tolkien legacy. Would fans accept a diversion from their beloved Middle Earth and accompany Tolkien into a new mythic world evoked through verse rather than the dramatic prose style of the Lord ...

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The Roots of Tolkien's Middle-earth (2006) draws together the materials Bob has researched concerning the impact of Birmingham on Tolkien, with particular focus on King's Heath and Hall Green (Sarehole Mill) where Tolkien spent much of his early life. ...

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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. ...

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. ...

 UK Justin Hardy's 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth is one for the boys – that vast clan of Tolkien fans who now go to New Zealand for their holidays. A fully dramatised two-part account of the events of 1066 from the viewpoint of the common man, ...

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Coun Michael Wilkes and his wife Vivienne are organisers of the Middle Earth Weekend at Sarehole Mill, an event which celebrates the work of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien. A highlight of the 2008 weekend was Vivienne's adaptation of the historic ...

 UK Because at home we had been thinking that for cynical marketing reasons Channel 4 had just ripped off “Middle Earth” from Lord of the Rings. Of course, the writer Peter Harness and director Justin Hardy had ripped off Tolkien but only after Tolkien, ...

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 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 ...

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 Canada Filled with fantastic realms inhabited by strange, mighty characters this epic poem from the man who made Middle-earth famous includes an introduction by Tolkien drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature. Also look for insightful ...

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 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 ...

 UK “The Heroes & Maps Pack gives gamers a chance to experience even more intense battles with their friends online and explore more of Middle-earth.” By downloading the Heroes & Maps Pack, players will get to choose from three new classic JRR Tolkien ...

 Canada Fight for the Free People of Middle-earth as you battle against the forces of the Dark Lord, or serve Sauron as you seek to obtain the One Ring! Play as any of 8 races and set out on your own epic adventure within the world created by JRR Tolkien. ...

 UK The continued success of Middle Earth Weekend is yet another effective demonstration of Birmingham's rich cultural heritage.” As well as highlighting Tolkien's Middle Earth sagas, the event also draws inspiration from his enthusiasm for Norse mythology ...

 United Arab Emirates from the Tolkien archive – and what a Borgesian library that archive must be, lined with tottering piles of manuscript and bedecked with spidery footnotes. Unlike the other 14, however, it has no connection with the Middle-Earth of the Rings books. ...

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

 NY Fans of Tolkien will get a special insight into the myths that inspired the creation of Middle Earth with this week's release of his new book, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. This new book lies somewhere between a translation and an original work. ...

 UK He was also responsible for several other posthumous works by his father, including The Silmarillion and The Children Of Hurin. Although the new book contains fantastical elements it is not set in Middle-earth, the fantasy land Tolkien created for his ...

 United States - Dave Itzkoff Among the other JRR Tolkien works that The Guardian (cheekily) says might also see the light of day are “The Middle-Earth Children's Songbook” (“A charming collection of Olde Englande folk songs, including “How Much is That Hobbit in the Window” and ...

 UK First he uncovered The Silmarillion, then Unfinished Tales, The Father Christmas Letters, the 12-volume History of Middle Earth and The Children of Hurin; and this week we get The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, a 500-stanza epic reworking of the old ...

Line or the Tolkien estate, The Hunt For Gollum fits perfectly into Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy. If you're a fan of LOTR, you owe it to yourself to watch this film. You'll love revisiting Middle Earth and all of its inhabitants. ...

 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. ...

The history of the story can be largely discovered from The History of Middle-Earth. But it was long my father's ultimately unfulfilled ambition to tell three of the major individual stories from The Silmarillion in a much fuller form than was suitable ...

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And that posed a difficult question to the keepers of the Tolkien legacy. Would fans accept a diversion from their beloved Middle Earth and accompany Tolkien into a new mythic world evoked through verse rather than the dramatic prose style of the Lord ...

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 NY - Mike Rogers LIT Yet another posthumous title by Tolkien (between writing this much and teaching full time when did he sleep?), this is one of his more scholarly outputs. Written before his popular Middle-earth creations, the two full poems presented here are based ...

 United Kingdom 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 ...

 New Zealand Ian Collier of The Tolkien Society writes: I thought that you'd be interested in the news about this year's Middle-earth weekend (formerly the Tolkien Weekend) event at Sarehole Mill. Like TORN the event is celebrating its 10th anniversary so this one ...

  USA - Keith Still, Keith Still Middle Earth may only truly exist in the minds of Tolkien fans, but Lord of the Rings travelers flocked to New Zealand's Southern Alps to get a glimpse of the breathtaking landscapes from the movie. Groundhog Day drew many to Punxsutawney, Pa., ...

 MO 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. ...

 Australia I am afraid the geographic board are no fun when it comes to Tolkien," it stated. Motor camp manager Aaron Nicholson, who made the request, was even more frustrated, saying he felt New Zealand politicians had a "strangely negative attitude" towards ...

 South Korea They got in the way of the action. Now I enjoy these parts, too. I can read more slowly, carefully, savoring all the depth and detail of Middle Earth. As an avid hiker, I get a chuckle out of imagining Tolkien writing a very different kind of book. ...

 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. ...

 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 ...

 New Zealand From the newsletter: “Our friends from TORN visit the Weta Cave - On a Cruise To Middle-Earth, a large group of Tolkien fans from TheOneRing.Net came to visit us. It was a real pleasure to have you here and to show you around. ...

 CA Announced in Birmingham, the childhood home of JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria will expand the online world of Middle-earth to let players explore the ancient underground cities of the dwarves, battle epic characters in the ...

 New Zealand This new analysis by Jeremy Mark Robinson explores Tolkien’s major writings (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics, The Letters of JRR Tolkien. The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth volumes), Tolkien and ...

 UK Tolkien’s mother took him to live with her parents in Stirling Road, Birmingham, and n 1896 they moved to Sarehole, now in Hall Green. It’s believed Moseley Bog inspired Middle Earth in The Lord of The Rings and the Victorian tower at Edgbaston ...

By grammaboodawg 1. Birth of Aragorn II (Elessar) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 296 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 111 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 120 TT) 4. Aragorn meets Gandalf the White.    Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 122 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 132 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 338 TT)

By grammaboodawg The Fellowship is splintered and on the move. Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 78 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 78 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 36 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 347 TT) Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King conquers the Academy Awards with a clean sweep of 11 Oscars!!!

By grammaboodawg Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 524 FotR) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 59 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 525 FotR) 4. Aragorn sets out in pursuit of the Orcs at evening. Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 26 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 48 TT) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 519 FotR)

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) So begins the hopeless war of the Noldor against Morgoth. The Valar, furious with the disobedience and kinslaying of the Noldor, refuse to intervene and the War of the Jewels spills out of control, engulfing the races of Dwarves and Men. The lands of Beleriand, where the war is fought, becom...

JRR Tolkien wove stories which moved gracefully across thousands of miles, through thousands of pages, from book to book to book. Even the astute Middle Earth bibliophile would stumble at the responsibility and the honor of reviewing a book written by ...

 UK CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien seem to be ahead of Avery - his map in Tate Britain even looks like a map of Narnia or Middle Earth, complete with Elvish script. His fans would prefer to compare him with Borges but even there the comparison is surely bad for ...

 NY - too, Mr. Tolkien has succeeded superbly, and what happened in the year of the Shire 1418 in the Third Age of Middle Earth is not only fascinating in AD ...

Now, in a trilogy called "The Lord of the Rings," Mr. Tolkien continues somewhat differently his story of the third age of Middle Earth, a world inhabited by wizards, men, hobbits (courteous little oddities, like English householders three feet high ...

By grammaboodawg February 14, 2009The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on February 14th: The Mirror of Galadriel (1419)Gandalf returns to life, and lies in a trance (1419) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 468 FotR) Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 135 TT)

By Blake GTC Roadshow AG announces the acquisition of the most expensive Tolkien book ever sold; a signed first edition of "The Lord of the Rings" dedicated to the "Queen of the Hobbits", for 104.000 USD. A further 5 lots were acquired in the same auction: the first translation of The Hobbit dedicate...

Disclaimer: Vanimórë and Elgalad belong to xFanarix, Middle-earth belongs to Tolkien. This hasn't been beta'd, so if you see a mistake, feel free to point it out to me! There was the sound of yrch trampling through the undergrowth only ...

Song and Lyrics belong to Natasha Bedingfield, Eowyn and Rohan belong to JRR Tolkien and I lay no claim to any of his brilliance, I am just fortunate enough to own a passport to Middle Earth ;). Options, Report This ...

During her stay there, Shane discovered Tolkien and the wonderful world of Middle Earth since both her grandparents were fans. Then she discovered a forum on the Internet where many Tolkien fans have found sanctuary, ...

Story Notes:. Disclaimer: The characters and world belong to Professor Tolkien. I just borrow them. Part of the Golden Lord of Gondolin Series. Written for the Middle-earth Express Prompt Challenge # 92: Snow. EXACTLY 500 WORDS! ...

Disclaimer: If this fic doesn’t prove I am not Tolkien, I’m not sure what would. Written for the Middle-earth Express Prompt #84: Entertainment WARNING: This short story contains sexual innuendo and alludes to a male’s reaction to ...

 - Nov 18, 2008 JS: We loosely follow the books, but we're more following the geography of Middle-Earth in the way that it was unveiled by Tolkien - we've never been ...

By FeanorFinwe There is also a book that covers some of the languages found in Tolkien's writings.  I believe that it is called the "Languages of Middle-Earth.  I also think I actually heard a piece before that said the stories he created were really a way for him show the languages that he developed.  As well...

By Altaira The Children of Húrin from Amazon: The first complete book by J.R.R. Tolkien in three decades–since the publication of The Silmarillion in 1977–The Children of Húrin reunites fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, Eagles and Orcs. Presented for t...

It was Tolkien that put in place the oceans and the mountains, I am just skipping pebbles in the pond. For me stepping into Middle Earth is not only to visit a place of beauty but to remove myself from the reality I face everyday, ...

This is the continuing saga of a 36 year old female soldier who finds herself in Middle Earth during the Fellowship of the Ring. This is part one of a series which will follow the plots of JRR Tolkien.

By shandroblog5091 Secrets of Middle-Earth - Inside Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” A unique, one-of-a-kind movie! Both Tim Hildebrandt and Greg Hildebrandt (II) has earned overwhelmingly positive reviews and is considered by many to be one of the best films of ...

By Mike Fahey WESTWOOD, MA - February 20, 2008 - Turbine, Inc. announced today that in the wake of the global success of The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, named the 2007 PC Game of the Year*, it has reached an agreement with Tolkien Enterprises to extend it's license to develop Massively M...

By Alex Billington The three Lord of the Rings movies were an incredible success, with Return of the King becoming the second most profitable movie in history (behind Titanic) and one of only three movies to surpass $1 billion worldwide. The total box office earnings for all three films tops $2.92 billion. Tha...

By Gatzby The Lord of the Rings Online," "Shadows of Angmar," "Middle-earth," "The Lord of the Rings," and the names of the characters, events, items and places therein are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises under license to Turbine, Inc. Tu...

By Asgard The Children of Hurin is an assemblage of Tolkien's assorted writings, put together in novel format by son Christopher. The story was begun by JRR Tolkien in 1918, but never assembled as a complete novel. Christopher Tolkien has organized the work into novel format without altering his fa...

By Asgard Darker than Lord of the Rings and more mature than The Hobbit, The Children of Hurin takes place several thousand years before the events of The Hobbit, at a time that the Elves were greater and were strongly allied with the nations of Men. Elves and Men have suffered a disastrous defeat in wa...

By Kaonashi Turbine's long awaited The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar (LOTRO) was released on April 24, much to the delight of Tolkien and MMORPG fans alike. For $14.99 a month, anyone can assist Frodo, Gandalf, and the rest of the Fellowship in preventing Sauron and his armies from enslaving the F...

By Gordon Hauptfleisch Begun in 1918, The Children of Hurin -- the first complete J.R.R. Tolkien work since the publication of The Silmarillion in 1977 -- was one of three “Great Tales” the author worked on throughout his life, though he never realized his objective in seeing it published. Now reconstructed by Chri...