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Ian McKellen Touring NZ To Raise Funds To Rebuild Christchurch’s Historic Isaac Theatre Royal
Sir Ian Mckellen will be putting his May and June weekends to fine use, He will be touring New Zealand and putting on an interactive one man show to raise funds to restore the earthquake damaged theatre. For more information, click to the Scoop Media article, found here.
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Tolkien Reading Day: A time to celebrate reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s books!
Today, March 25th, is ‘Tolkien Reading Day” and The Tolkien Society is inviting everyone to join in celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of ‘The Hobbit’. For more information click here.
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Copyright holder offers an amicable resolution to The Hobbit pubs problems.
Producer Paul Saentz of the Saul Zaentz Company, the owners of the worldwide rights to marketing The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit brands, has offered an amicable solution to The Hobbit pub. Click here to read about the suggested solution.
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Sir Ian McKellen also backs The Hobbit Pub.
Click here to go to Sir Ian McKellen’s website and read his comments concerning The Hobbit pub being directed to cease their copyright infringement.
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Stephen Fry supports Hobbit Pub in copyright dispute
Fans of The Hobbit pub have set up a Facebook page to protest what they see as Hollywood heavy-handedness and yesterday, in a tweet, Stephen Fry lent his support to the protest. For more info click here.
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J. R. R. Tolkien to be portrayed in a feature film
Scheduled for release in 2013, the film ,’The Lion Awakes’ concerns C.S. Lewis’ early life, including his friendship with J .R .R. Tolkien. For more details click here for NarniaWeb’s interview with screenwriter Darren Scott Jacobs, and here for ‘The Lion Awakes’ Facebook page.
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Hobbit production video #6
Peter Jackson has just released production video # 6 from the sets of The Hobbit. To watch the video click here.
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‘Figwit’ wins Oscar
New Zealander Brett McKenzie, who played the character nicknamed Figwit in The Lord of the Rings and who has been cast as the Rivendel Elf ‘Lindir’ in The Hobbit, has just won the 2012 Oscar for Best Song. For more details check out this Radio New Zealand article.
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Bilbo’s contract with Thorin and Company
DarkJackal of the Heirs of Durin blog has apparently spent a great deal of his spare time examining and deciphering some Hobbit movie stills showing Bilbo reading the contract presented to him by the Dwarves. The results of his examination can be found here.
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Slvester McCoy TRIES to discuss The Hobbit
Click here for SHADOWLOCKED’s humorous interview with Sylvester McCoy.
