Category: General News

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.

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.

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.

Former Olympian sword fighter Bob Anderson, who worked on countless movies as a fight teacher and choreographer including Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, died at 89 . Director Peter Jackson left a message on his Facebook page, saying It is a rare, even within the film industry, that you get to…

Today is the 120th anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s birth and by tradition lovers of his literature will toast the author at 9:00 pm with the phrase: “The professor”. So today, let’s all raise a glass to celebrate the birth of the man who is the reason for us all to meet here; to ‘The professor’.

Warner Bros. Consumer Products has awarded the toymaker the rights to create action figures and playsets based on “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and the two upcoming films based on “The Hobbit,” the first of which bows at the end of 2012. Read about it at Variety.com or click Read More to view the…

Empire celebrates the 10 year anniversary of The Lord Of The Rings. See the article here

Click here for an article from USA TODAY about how the LotR, and Hobbit movies have turned NZ tourism around!

Check out this Hobbit hole fit for Frodo!