Was the Elvenking of The Hobbit supposed to be Thingol?
Anyone who’s read both The Silmarillion and The Hobbit will have noted the strong similarities between the Elvenking...
Continue reading 
Four new Hobbit images from the 2014 Desolation of Smaug...
Courtesy of the folks at RichardArmitageNet, we have four new, exciting movie stills from the 2014 The Hobbit...
Continue reading
Tolkien and the boy who didn’t believe in fairies
John Garth, writer, researcher and author of Tolkien and the Great War recently published online for the first...
Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 to air Seamus Heaney reading Beowulf
One for Anglo-saxonists and lovers of poetry: BBC Radio 4 is set to air a recording of the...
Continue reading
Hall of Fire this Saturday: the Black Gate is Closed
This Saturday (at 6pm ET (New York time)), Hall of Fire will return to our chapter-by-chapter read-through of...
Continue reading
Alberta Film Ratings lists new 2:23 minute Hobbit trailer!
We’d heard and reported the rumours that the next Hobbit trailer was coming soon — probably next week,...
Continue reading