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Billy Connolly cast as Dain Ironfoot
Peter Jackson has just announced that Scottish comic Billy Connolly will be playing Dain Ironfoot in the Hobbit movies. For information read the New Zealand Herald article found here.
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Interactive Middle-earth Family Tree
Emil Johansson of Gothenburg, Sweden, who is designing a detailed interactive family tree of Tolkien’s characters, was recently interviewed by CNN’s Geek Out. To read the interview, click here and to see the beta version of the Family Tree click here.
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Tolkien letter sold at auction for £1,700.
According to The Telegraph, a previously unknown letter written by J.R.R.Tolkien, after a less than wonderful vacation, has just been sold at auction. Click here for more details.
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New Bilbo picture (with Dwarves)
Click here for a new image of Martin Freeman, as Bilbo, standing with some of the Dwarves.
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Evangeline Lilly interviewed by Entertainment Weekly.
In a recent interview for Entertainment Weekly, Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly discussed her role in the action movie ‘Real Steel’ and also described what it is like playing a warrior elf in Peter Jackson’s ‘ Hobbit’ movies. For the original interview click here.
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Peter Jackson at the Sundance Film Festival
Click here to watch Peter Jackson explain how to The Hollywood Reporter how much more filming remains to be done on the first Hobbit movie.
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Andy Serkis interviewed by, ‘Hero Complex”
On Jan 13th Andy Serkis gave an interview and Q&A session to the La Times ‘Hero Complex’ division. Click here for the video of this rather extensive interview in which Serkis discusses screen capture and its use in his roles in TinTin, Rise of The Planet of the Apes, and The Hobbit movies.
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New Bilbo Picture
The L. A. Times, in its ‘Hero Complex’ section, has just posted a new picture of Martin Freeman, looking somewhat the worse for wear, as Bilbo. To see the picture, and read the accompanying article, click here.
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Richard Armitage on playing Thorin
Richard Armitage has just been named to MTV’s ‘Ones to Watch’. Click on this link to go to MTV’s interview of the British actor in which he discusses his career making role, playing Thorin, in Peter Jackson’s ‘Hobbit’ movies.
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Why Tolkien never received the Nobel Prize.
in 1961, C. S. Lewis nominated J. R. R. Tolkien for the Nobel prize in literature, a prize that ended up being awarded to Yugoslavian writer Ivo Andric. The workings of the Nobel Committee have been kept secret for 50 years but now, according to this article in the Guardian and this article in The…
