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Food in the Hobbit

Curious as to the meal, from his pantry, that Bilbo served to Gandalf and the Dwarves at The Unexpected party? Click here to be taken to an interesting article, ‘Food in The Hobbit,’ from Recipewise

News on Tolkien Reading Day

25 Inspirational Quotes from J.R.R Tolkien’s books: In celebration of Tolkien Reading Day International Business Times has printed 25 quotes from The Hobbit and the Lord of The Rings trilogy. The Quotes can be found here. Lost footage found from Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings: To read about, and see, the extra footage, from the […]

Tolkien Reading day; March 25th, Tolkien’s Translation of Beowulf is coming soon

This Tuesday, March 25th, is celebrated by Tolkien fans as Tolkien Reading Day. You can click here for some suggested ways to participate and here for a video, posted by Middle-earth Network, in which Tolkien Scholar Professor Michael Drout explains how to read Tolkien. For information on the release of Tolkien’s Beowulf translation you can […]

Rare copy of ‘The Hobbit’ heading for Auction

A rare first edition of The Hobbit will be auctioned off in London England on April 11th. Details of the auction can be found here

News Update; Trailer for Lego The Hobbit Game, and How the Desolation of Smaug Barrel scene was put together.

Click here to see the new trailer for the upcoming ‘LEGO The Hobbit’ game. You can click here to see a behind the scenes look at how the ‘Desolation of Smaug’ Barrel sequence was compiled.