Comic Book Resources (CBR) chimes in with this long, comprehensive report by writer Andy Liegl on our panel at San Diego Comic-Con last month!

With Peter Jackson absent from Comic-Con International in San […]

This weekend in the Hall of Fire, we will be discussing one of the great (and tragic) stories of Tolkien’s Legendarium, Akallabêth: The Downfall of Numenor.

A land was made for the Edain to dwell in, neither […]

The back cover of a 2014 Hobbit calendar from SD Toys reveals something interesting — what we believe is a new image of the shapeshifter Beorn, as played by Mikael Persbrandt. Excitingly, we believe it also […]

You push through furs to hide at the back of the wardrobe. Suddenly, fur gives way to twigs, floorboards to snow. A lamp-post glimmers ahead…!–more–

Lucy’s entry into Narnia is an exhilarating transition […]

Entertainment Weekly delivers again with this fabulous new still shot of Tauriel and Legolas from The Desolation of Smaug.

One does note that there’s been a lot of focus on elves in Warner Bros. marketing […]

Courtesy of MovieStop, a movie store in Atlanta, Georgia, we have this fantastic in-depth look at what we fans can expect from the Extended Editions of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Let’s dive right in […]

Ringer Giurunian writes to tell us of this amazing diorama of the Argonath created by Russian sculptor Alexander Krasnov last year.

Krasnov calls the work “The Guardians” and created it from completely […]

This weekend in the Hall of Fire, we’ll be chatting about the final chapter of Book III of The Two Towers.

‘Go to sleep!’ said Merry. ‘You’ll get information enough, sooner or later. My dear Pippin, no Took […]

Last weekend in The Hall of Fire, we discussed sources of heroism in The Lord of the Rings. Who acts heroically, and what is it that makes them heroic anyway? For those who couldn’t attend, here’s a log.

And […]

Our friends at Tolkien Brasil tell us that, somewhat in the vein of the fan film Born of Hope, Dutchman Johan Zanderbergen is currently working on an fan-made animated version of The Hobbit.

Tolkien Brasil <a […]

It seems that Kabam is getting serious about promoting its free-to-play Kingdoms of Middle-earth mobile app game. Our spies tell us that ads have been seen airing on the SyFy network — something apparently […]

Last weekend in Hall of Fire we discussed the hero and the heroic in Lord of the Rings. The topic proved quite popular for everyone, so by request this weekend we’ll be honing in a little more to examine heroism […]

Last weekend in The Hall of Fire, we delved into the events of The Voice of Saruman the second last chapter of Book III of The Lord of the Rings. For those who couldn’t attend, here’s a log.

And remember, […]

This weekend, Hall of Fire we’ll be exploring the hero, and the heroic, in the Lord of the Rings.

I think the simple ‘rustic’ love of Sam and his Rosie (nowhere elaborated) is absolutely essential to the […]

Ringer RedOrmTheViking offers some intriguing analysis of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. He proposes that Rob Kazinsky, who was originally slated to play the role of Fili, actually appears on screen once […]

In this extract from his acclaimed book Tolkien and the Great War: the Threshold of Middle-earth, John Garth outlines some of the earliest antecedents of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium, in around March 1916, […]

Last weekend in the Hall of Fire, bouncing off Gandalf’s famous “For I also am a steward” rejoinder to Denethor, we discussed exactly what made a steward in Middle-earth. For those who couldn’t attend, here’s a […]

Sir Peter Jackson’s second instalment of The Hobbit movie has become music to the ears of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

The NZSO will record the soundtrack to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in […]

The Fifth International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages, Omentielva Lempea, is inviting participation in an Elvish Haiku Contest open to entries in either Quenya or Sindarin. The deadline for […]