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Lembas for the Soul – Book Giveaway
To celebrate the upcoming release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Catherine Kohman is giving away three copies of the brand new Kindle edition of Lembas for the Soul: How The Lord of the Rings Enriches Everyday Life. To enter, please send an email to lembasfolkatgmail.com. Winners will be drawn from the first 100 emails.
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Simon Tolkien on the Dificulty of Growing Up as Tolkien’s Grandson
According to author Simon Tolkien, the immense popularity of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies was like; “being hit by a juggernaut.” Click here to read the entire article in The Telegraph.
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News update; First Look at Bard, Interactive E-Books
A few unedited shots of Luke Evans playing Bard The Bowman can be found here. Details on the interactive official film tie-in e-books can be found by going here. and then clicking the link under ‘Latest Headlines. ( That’s the only way I could get the link to work)
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Should you read The Hobbit before seeing the Movies?
For an explanation as to why you SHOULD read The Hobbit before you see the first film click here.
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An interview with Corey Olsen, aka ‘The Tokien Professor’
Professor Corey Olsen has just released a new book; Exploring JRR Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”. Click here to hear him being interviewed, by reporter Leonie Harris, about the effect the book has had on people over the past 75 years .
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Hobbit Update; Collectibles, More Images, a Possible Cameo, Almost No Gandalf, and a New Audio Book
Collectibles; To see what is now available from the Noble Collection click here, and to see some of the new action figures now availalble click here for Goblins, here for Thorin and two Goblins and here for Legolas and Tauriel. Several new images and a movie trailer can be seen if you click here. To…
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For Middle-Earth, One Family Tree To Rule Them All
Here’s a question: Just how many men were there in the West? And were they friends, cousins or perhaps even brothers? Even if those questions weren’t troubling you as you left the theater, they were on the mind of Emil Johansson, a university student in Gothenburg, Sweden. Johansson has spent the past several years creating…
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Recently Published Tolkien-Related Books
We’ve received notification of two new books that may be of interest to the CoE community. The first is The Hobbits: The Many Lives of Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin by Lynette Porter. From the press release: The beloved characters of Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin have been much-adapted for radio, television, film…
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Coming soon; The first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fall Of Arthur, originally composed by Tolkien in the 1930s but abandoned for The Hobbit, has recently been edited for publication by Christopher Tolkien and will be released next year . For more details click here.
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HarperCollins to publish numerous official ‘The Hobbit’ movie tie-ins
Harper Collins Publishers has acquired exclusive worldwide publishing rights from Warner Bros. for tie-in books to the two highly anticipated Peter Jackson films while Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the U.S. publishing rights from HarperCollins. For the article about Harper Collins click here and for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt click here .
