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All your questions regarding Hobbits can now be answered!
At Amazon.com you can pre-order your copy of the Annotated Hobbit by Douglas Anderson. It is due out June 26. Here is a abbreviated review from the pubisher, Houghton-Mifflin: ‘It has been revised and expanded… (the author) has also used wonderful illustrations from all over the world. There are many new annotations in this edition…
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Pippin in New York
The Northeast’s Largest Convention of Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy, ICON-21, will have Billy Boyd as its media guest of honor today and tomorrow at Stony Brook, New York.
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Saturn Award Nominees
Have you heard of the Saturn Awards? I hadn’t until today. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced its nominations for the 28TH annual Saturn Awards to be held this summer in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony honors the best in genre entertainment from 2001. I am pleased to tell you…
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The wisdom of Theoden
Sci Fi Wire has a brief yet very good interview of Bernard Hill, who portrays King Theoden in The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
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Good Mojo…
Box Office Mojo tells us that The Fellowship of the Ring is #5 in all time worldwide box office grosses.
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The prestigious Hugo Awards.
The 2002 Hugo Award nominees have been announced. The Fellowship of the Ring has been nominated for Best Dramatization, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, and Meditations on Middle Earth have both been nominated for Best Related Book. The winners will be announced and presented at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, September 1,…
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Play golf with Gandalf
You lucky folks in the sunny southern California city of Upland can play miniature golf at an indoor park–it has a Middle Earth theme! Go here for the map: Calendar Live
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It’s getting better, all the time
We learn through Hive4Media that the extended version of Fellowship of the Ring won’t have an R rating, after all…
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Please don’t feed the Oliphaunts
This is an older story, but it is news to me, thought it might be to you, too, or maybe you just want to read it again, and see the picture of the Oliphaunt. Interested? See it here: New Zealand News
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Gotta have it!
Oh, my. The fans have spoken. Seems everybody is pre-ordering the DVD…Hive4Media says it is the #1 pre-order sales for film at Amazon.com.
