Amazon completes $8.5 billion purchase of MGM (and gains Hobbit...
According to Variety, Amazon has finally completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM. It was MGM’s precarious financial...
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Was Peter Jackson’s Dale inspired by an obscure 1991 animation...
In the early 1990s, Russian director Roman Mitrofanov began working on an animated version of The Hobbit. The...
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Examining the star-shaped device worn by Gil-galad and Galadriel in...
You’ve probably noted that in the various promo imagery we’ve seen, Galadriel bears a star-shaped emblem. It’s most...
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Lost scripts for 1950s BBC Lord of the Rings radio...
It’s long been known that the recordings of the 1950s BBC radio drama adaptation of The Lord of...
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The Rings of Power: not Art or Cash, but Art...
There’s a particular letter in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien where Tolkien writes about his experience of dealing...
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Mûmakil, Harad and The War of the Rohirrim
It appears that the appearance of Mûmakil in the recent Warner Bros. concept art has sparked dire thoughts...
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