The Hobbit is coming. Again. ast week saw the world-wide fan event on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with fans from all over the world gathering to see a 20 mins sneak peek...
elcome to the third installment of “Fun Facts on Middle-earth related Media (F2M2)” in which I would like to introduce you to the outstanding actor Sir Michael Hordern. He is next on my list...
n the second installment of my on-going series “Fun Facts on Middle-earth related Media (F2M2)” I would like to introduce you to the man who inspired me to start it – Bill Nighy. My...
s of today I will start another series on TheTolkienist.com playing on some fun facts readily available in the media and what set me off was Bill Nighy. I’ll turn to him in a...
t may look like a rather unusual post to the Tolkienist but I am a fan of many fandoms (as any proper nerd/ geek/ etc. would be) and I have always had a love...
Walking Through Wilderland: An English archaeological landscape investigation hy read JRR Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, before watching Peter Jackson’s film? Well, speaking as an English historian and post-medieval archaeological landscape investigator, I consider The...
his is a three-part article on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey or rather: a collection of random first impressions. The first part is a more general comment on the film as a literary adaptation,...
uch has been made of Peter Jackson’s decision to make three instead of two Hobbit films (a production company like Warner Bros which has crossed the billion-dollar-mark for eleven consecutive years will have taken...
Tolkien’s books belong to the most popular writings ever to be published and for decades they have had a loyal following all other the world. These numbers understandably swelled with Peter Jackson’s film trilogy...
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