Jason attempts to define a HP ‘loser’ from a LOTR one.

World-renowned scholar Dr. Thomas Shippey, author of the newly published J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, will offer a free, public lecture at Marquette University. The Libraries’ Colloquium Committee and Marquette’s Department of Special Collections and Archives sponsor the event. [More]

A British publisher took a gamble in 1937, releasing a quirky, complex novel called The Hobbit about a smallish, paunchy, hairy-footed, pipe-smoking everyman named Bilbo Baggins. [More]

Ringer Spy Andrew sent us this scan from Digital Media World Magazine, it takes a look at some of the other SFX houses helping WETA to make LOTR. [More]

Ringer Spy Andrew sent us this scan from Digital Media World Magazine, it takes a look at some of the other SFX houses helping WETA to make LOTR.

Ringer Spy Doughboy sends along these very very snazzy LOTR themed popcorn bags, take a look. [More]