Today, Jan 3rd, is J.R.R.Tolkien’s Birthday, traditionally celebrated with a toast.
Details of the Toast, as explained by the Tolkien Society can be found here . Note that the site also has a link to various places where you can join in the celebration.
Also, to celebrate Tolkien’s Birthday the Christian Science Monitor has posted 10 quotes from the author. They can be found here .
By now everyone is aware of the passing, Sunday morning, of Sir Christopher Lee.
As a Tribute to his work on The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings Films we present this link to a clip of him preparing for a scene in The Hobbit, and Peter Jackson’s Facebook statement on the loss of a truly incredible actor can be found here .
Known for his role in The Lord of the Rings trilogy as the wizard Saruman, among many other acting roles, RIP Christopher Lee. Read more here .
To see the team from Men at Arms forge Narsil,and then reforge Anduril from the shards, click here for the 10 minute video.
For those fans that like to keep track of what the actors from the ‘Hobbit’ trilogy are now doing, you can click here to be taken to EW’s list of the interesting televison roles being taken on by ten of them.
According to New York Daily News writer Nicole Hensley, a nine-year-old boy was suspended from school for claiming to have the One Ring forged in the fires of Mount Doom, and telling a friend that he could ‘make him disappear.’
The boy, Aiden Steward of Kermit, Texas, had seen ‘The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies’ just days earlier. While the school principal refused to comment, citing confidentiality policies, the boy’s father, Jason Steward, called the school’s actions “ridiculous.”
This is not the first time Aiden has gotten in trouble at school. He has already been suspended three times this school year, once for referring to a classmate as black, and again for bringing his favorite book ‘The Big Book of Knowledge’ to school because the book had a section on pregnancy, complete with illustrations.
To read the full article, click the link here .
To see this new video, featuring celebrities from the Peter Jackson films, just click here .
Hey there,
Just wanted to let you know about a cool Hobbit/Lord of the Rings themed infographic we’ve made over at Good to be Home magazine about the various homes of Middle Earth. However, the spin on it is that we’ve made it as if the homes are all up for sale and available to buy.
See what we mean and check it out here .
Anyway, hope you like it and if you have any questions at all about it then please just ask.
Kind regards,
Chris Thomson
