Click here and here for the Box Office results for the final weekend of 2012.

To read what kind of health lessons can be learned from Tolkien’s Hobbits click here.

For information concerning some of the planned 121st birthday toasts for J. R. R. Tolkien click here.

‘The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey’, despite coming in third in the Christmas Day box-office totals, seems to have regained the lead. Click here for an early count of the Friday totals.

Click here for the unlicensed, 1985 Russian movie; ‘The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit.’

SPOILER ALERT; Click here for details on how Dan Hennah’s sets were combined with Joe Letteri’s digital effects to create the Goblin tunnels and the Stone Giants.

For a possible explanation to some critics disliking `The Hobbit` click here.

For `The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey`s earning to date click here and to see the movie regain the No.1 spot click here.

For Peter Jackson defending his filming decisions click here.

To see a hungry fan take on Denny`s entire Middle-earth Menu click here.

Tiny Hobbit Bilbo Baggins is running circles around some of the biggest names in Hollywood for a second weekend. To see how click here and to see which movie, on Christmas day, finally knocked ‘The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey’ out of first place click here.

For another discussion of the merits of HFR filming at 48 FPS click  here.

For a ‘Middle-earth’ tourist’s look at New Zealand’s South Island click  here.

Ian McKellen discusses reprising Gandalf  here and Andy Serkis discusses reprising Gollum  here.

To see how kids react to ‘The Hobbit; An Unexpected journey’ click here.

Click here to find out how much sleep Peter Jackson gets when he’s filming.

SPOILER ALERT! If you want to find out what happened to Gandalf’s back story and other information available in the ‘Return Of The King’ Apendices click here.

Click here and here for updates on the Box Office Stats for ‘The Hobbit;An Unexpected Journey’. (note that the ‘4’ in the total for ‘Rise of the Guardians’ should actaully be a ‘$’ sign)

For a list of the thirteen Dwarves ranked by ‘hotness’ click here.

For the second ‘Empire Online’ one-hour podcast click here.

For the details behind Neil Finn’s ‘Song of The Lonely Mountain’ click here.

For information about, and tickets to, ‘An Unexpected Art Show’ to be held in L.A. On Feb 22nd click here.

For a ‘Huffington Post’ article justifying, and explaining, the extra non-book scenes added to ‘The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey’ click here.

For a look at a Life Sized Lego ‘Bag End’ constructed of 2 million Lego bricks click here for the article and here for the builder’s Facebook photo album.

Click here for a Washington Post article looking at whether ‘The Hobbit. films are based on Christian principles.

Reviews of ‘The Hobbit; an Unexpected Journey’ have been mixed. We are now going to post one LAST batch of reviews and then leave that topic. A stack of reviews, positive, somewhat neutral, can be found by clicking the highlighted links below( randomly listed ).

Here’s our last list of reviews; by Forbes , The Wrap ( more of a summary of reviews), Pop Sugar (a Video Review), Houston’s Conroe News, The Voice of America, The Daily Page, and last but not least CNET (mostly a tech review).

SPOILER ALERT! On a different note; for Empire’s 30 minute spoiler podcast with Phillipa Boyens click here.

For the ‘FX Guide’ highly informative article detailing WETA’s work on ‘The Hobbit’ click here.
( thanks to Rivka for this article )

For 40 questions that test your knowledge of ‘The Hobbit’ click here.

To read about the opening weekend box-office predictions for ‘The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey’ click here.

For some suggestions as to what other Tolkien works should be adapted to the big screen click here.

For more on Andy Serkis as Gollum click here.

Click here to be taken to Peter Jackson’s Facebook page to see the new video, which focuses on the New Zealand Premiere of ‘The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey’

( there’s lots more of today’s news to be posted after I get home from the local premiere – in 3D and 48FPS!!)