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Jan 4 Update; Tolkien Nerd’s Guide to The Hobbit, Celebrate a Hobbit Birthday and, 5 Facts about Tolkien
We start today’s news with two articles from Smithsonian.com; For ‘The Tolkien Nerd’s Guide to The Hobbit’ click here. For ‘How to Celebrate a Hobbit Birthday’ click here Next; For GeekSugar’s ‘5 Facts About the Man, the Myth, the Geek Legend’ click here
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Final 2012 News Update; Bilbo’s Adventure Stays on Top; Health Lessons from Hobbits; Celebrate Tolkien’s Birthday
Click here and here for the Box Office results for the final weekend of 2012. To read what kind of health lessons can be learned from Tolkien’s Hobbits click here. For information concerning some of the planned 121st birthday toasts for J. R. R. Tolkien click here.
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Today’s News Update; Bilbo Slays Competition for a Second Weekend; Is 48 FPS the way to go?; Middle-Earth Tourism; McKellen and Serkis on Reprising Gandalf and Gollum; How Kids React to The Hobbit; When does PJ Sleep?, and Where was Gandalf’s backstory?
Tiny Hobbit Bilbo Baggins is running circles around some of the biggest names in Hollywood for a second weekend. To see how click here and to see which movie, on Christmas day, finally knocked ‘The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey’ out of first place click here. For another discussion of the merits of HFR filming at…
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Today’s news; Legolas Bow Sells At Auction; The Film that Almost Wasn’t, Phillipa Boyens on ‘The Silmarillion’. Revealing Part of Tolkien’s Past
Click here to see what the ‘Legolas’ Bow sold for at auction. Click here for an article about the tortuous unexpected journey that finally led to the production of ‘The Hobbit’ movies. Click here to read why Philippa Boyens won’t reread ‘The Silmarillion’. Click here to learn about Tolkien’s work as a literature examiner.
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Today’s Update; The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey Sets Box Office Records; Auctioning Legolas’ Bow; Who does Martin Freeman Resemble?; and lots more..
Even with not so hot reviews, click here and here to see how the Hobbit film brokedomestic and international records for a December opening. To read about where you can go to bid on the bow used by Orlando Bloom in the Lord of The Rings films click here For an article about how Martin…
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Our LAST posting of Reviews and a Hobbit Spoiler Podcast from Philippa Boyens
Reviews of ‘The Hobbit; an Unexpected Journey’ have been mixed. We are now going to post one LAST batch of reviews and then leave that topic. A stack of reviews, positive, somewhat neutral, can be found by clicking the highlighted links below( randomly listed ). Here’s our last list of reviews; by Forbes , The…
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Dec 15 update; Forty questions about ‘The Hobbit’, Box-Office Predictions, Other Tolkien adaptations? and More on Andy as Gollum.
For 40 questions that test your knowledge of ‘The Hobbit’ click here. To read about the opening weekend box-office predictions for ‘The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey’ click here. For some suggestions as to what other Tolkien works should be adapted to the big screen click here. For more on Andy Serkis as Gollum click here.
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Today’s Hobbit news; A Pennsylvania Hobbit House, What Would Bag End be Worth?, and Lots More !
To see the incredible ‘Hobbit House’ built by a devout fan to house his collection, click here for a video look and click here for a detailed article with plenty of pictures. To get an idea of what Bag End would be worth today, click here. For a detailed review of the Movie, click here.…
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Todays’s News Roundup; First Night Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; OPINION- Kill the ‘Hobbit’ subsidies; Sir Ian McKellen Has Prostate Cancer; Andy Serkis plays dual role in “Hobbit”; Ancient ‘Hobbit’ Revealed; Best Adapted Screenplays of 2012; McKellen defends Peter Jackson
Click here for The Independent’s review of ‘The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey’. Click here to read an opinion piece on why government subsidies for Movie productions need to end. Click here to learn about how Sir Ian Mckellen has opened up about his prostate cancer fight. Click here to read about Andy Serkis’ dual role…
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Gandalf Speaks, Middle Earth Magic is Back, Guillermo Del Toro, Like Heaven’s Gate, Why Didn’t Lord of the Rings Series Fail?
A film based on “The Hobbit” has been on the cards since “The Lord Of The Rings” trilogy. Did you ever think it would actually happen? This was the first question put to Ian McKellin here . As unthinkable as it is, it has now been nearly a decade since moviegoers have visited JRR Tolkien’s…
