Tolkien’s universe has gained such cultural notoriety and is so beloved by so many that it can be easy to forget that “The ...

Playing though Jan. 4, Greg Banks' adaptation keeps Tolkien's adventure moving with creative staging and an eight-member cast ...

Staging “The Hobbit” is a tall order for any theater. Goblins, dwarves, wizards and a dragon don’t exactly fit neatly inside a 139-seat black box. But that challenge is what excites director Erin E.

Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” started life in the early 1930s as a story shared with family and friends. Tolkien (1892-1973) began writing it one day while grading papers, and — like his protagonists Bilbo ...

This weekend's opening of the movie "The Hobbit," directed by Peter Jackson, has a lot of J.R.R. Tolkien fans excited. Many of them are fans of fantasy literature and movies, turned on to Tolkien by ...

Warner Bros. has officially announced its participation in this week's celebration of Tolkien Week and Hobbit Day by releasing more new photos from the upcoming release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected ...

Editor's Note, December 10, 2013: With the second chapter of The Hobbit trilogy opening in theaters soon, and the third and final film to be released next winter, refresh your memory about what ...

What inspired the lush hills and unique names in The Hobbit? How about Kentucky? According to a recent article in the (Lexington) Herald-Leader, author JRR Tolkien was supposedly fascinated with the ...

"It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends" is what the writer Joan Didion once said about her experiences traveling to a new land (in her case, New York City). It's also ...

This Special Edition has numerous unique features not found in the (very nice) standard edition--which is $43.64 (was $75)--published by William Morrow in 2023. You'll get two fold-out, poster-sized ...

Well, that’s more like it! While I remain unconvinced about Peter Jackson’s vainglorious project to inflate an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 children’s story into a sprawling three-part prequel ...

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