Tolkien Before Jackson Part 7: What Changed with Peter Jackson?
This series has looked at 10 adaptations of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit that preceded Peter Jackson’s trilogy. From ashcan films that were never meant to be seen by the general...
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How ‘The Lord of the Rings’ meets William Wallace, dinosaurs, travels to Narnia and meets up with SpongeBob SquarePants
do have a love for blog post titles that really are just a bunch of silly connections, often strenuously so, and this title fits right into this category. It has been inspired by...
Why is everybody building Towers of Sauron, please?
f you visited London recently you may have paid a substantial amount of money to have an outstanding view of London, offered via the topmost levels of the Shard, the highest skyscraper in...
Play Slenderman in Middle-earth: The Google Chrome Hobbit Experience
nly a few weeks until the world premiere of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” and the hype is picking up speed. Yesterday, Google announced on its blog a new chrome experiment set...
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Fan event, Ed Sheeran and production diary #12
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...
A commentary on “Concerning Christopher”
n January 7th, 2013, TheOneRing.Net author JPB published an essay titled Concerning Christopher – An Essay on Tolkien’s Son’s Decision to Not Allow Further Cinematic Licensing of His Work. I was amazed at the...
“The Lord of the Gaps”: How Tolkien’s mastery of a literary technique would make ten Hobbit films possible – and they still wouldn’t be enough
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...