“…You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.”
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A brand new movie trailer was just released today with a special feature; this trailer has 5 possible endings and you get to choose which one to watch. To see the brand new ‘The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey’ Trailer choices click here.
Peter Jackson has announced the release, on Sept 19, of a new movie trailer as part of the Tolkien Week celebrations. The details can be found here on the director’s Facebook Page.
As most members of the Council of Elrond know, we have our own Middle-earth cookbook, in the form of Sam’s Recipe Box, found here in our own last Homely House.
Now Warner Brothers, to accompany the Hobbit movies , has recently come out with their own set of recipes, ‘Recipes From Middle-Earth’, which can be found here.
While J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy may be dear to fans young and old, philosophy professor David O’Connor said Tuesday he believes the trilogy is meant to reflect on a darker side of nostalgia at the core of human nature.
In the second installment of Tolkien 2012, the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 10th annual Catholic Literature Series, O’Connor offered a talk titled “Tolkien and Nostalgia,” in which he framed his approach to Tolkien’s great work as a re-imagining of some of the themes of Homer’s “Odyssey.”
To read this fascinating article, see here.
Dr. Karl Seigfried, a member of the Norse religion faculty at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI is hosting the First Annual Hobbit Day in honor of the soon-to-be-released movie. There will be costume contests, performances of favorite scenes from the Hobbit, treats celebrating Bilbo’s and Frodo’s birthdays, and much, much more. For more information, check out the site here.
Now that a new “Hobbit” app has been released by Apple, a number of new stills from the first movie have become available. To see some of the new stills click here .
Along with these pics, images of other characters have also been released; for a pic of Elrond click here , for one of the Great Goblin click here , and for a pic of Thranduil click here .
Sept 11 Update. For a couple of images of wargs click here.
Warner Bros. and MGM have just announced the name and release date for the third Hobbit movie which will now be titled; ‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’, and have officially changed the name of the second movie to;’ The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’. For more details click here .
While most of us are still coming to terms with the announcement that The Hobbit will be released as a trilogy, Peter Jackson discusses how much of Guillermo del Toro, the film’s original director, remains in the mix. Jackson took over the film back in 2010 when Del Toro dropped out of the film after two years of pre-production.
See just how much here .
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