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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Middle-earth March Madness approaches…
It’s almost time – time for 64 contenders to start out on an epic quest, to discover who…
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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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Warner Bros. and Saul Zaentz Co. spar over Tolkien film...
Variety reports that Warner Bros. and the Saul Zaentz Co. are currently in private mediation to settle differences…
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Did the Teaser Trailer give us what we hoped for?
The initial posters released by Amazon spawned a million questions, and then the Vanity Fair articles explained some…
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Meet the Harfoots: the Hobbit ancestors from Amazon’s The Rings...
Writer Joanna Robinson sure has been busy. Over on The Ringer (not actually a Tolkien site, believe it…
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