J.R.R. Tolkien

Alan Lee Chat Log Transcript

Today’s nearly 3 hour long chat with Alan Lee was filled with questions about Alan’s involvement with the Lord of the Rings movies, his future endeavors, and his art in general. We had an open, unmoderated chat, so I’ve edited...

Busy del Toro Talks 'Hobbit, Hellboy II' DVD

HOLLYWOOD, California -- His most pressing task, writing the extended script for the screen version of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, is also his most closely guarded: Del Toro, who always carries a notebook so he can make...

Down The Tracks: The Music That Influenced Led Zeppelin

Reviewed by Victor Valdivia Quote: "Don't expect to hear any new stories or insights about the music of Zep itself, unless you never knew that the band members were fans of the blues. If you didn't know that, then you have more...

Briton beats Jackson to next Rings movie

The Brits are to beat Kiwi-born director Peter Jackson in creating the next Lord of the Rings movie. But the new film won't have the $166 million budget the other movies had or the backdrop of green New Zealand pastures and...

Horowitz's amazing ride

ANTHONY Horowitz, arguably Britain's most versatile author, has a dilemma. Horowitz has sold 10 million copies of the Alex Rider Stormbreaker series but on the eve of tackling his eighth book he no longer has appropriate-age...

Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time Books Turn To Video Games

If the names Rand, Matt, Perrin, Moirraine, and Lan mean anything to you, you've read Robert Jordan's widely esteemed and hugely popular "Wheel of Time" fantasy series. Arguably the modern J.R.R. Tolkien, Jordan's deep and...

AFA holiday auction draws on talent of 'Rings' illustrator

Nov 13, 2008 (The Times-Tribune - As Artists for Art celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, members are gearing up for the gallery's annual holiday art auction on Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. The auction, which serves as the group's...

The battle lords of MTSU

As they battle it out with hand-made weapons and elaborate costumes, the members of Dagorhir, a group of students based on medieval-type activities, put all their energy into fighting their friends with weapons that won't lead...

‘Tales From the Perilous Realm' by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Tales From the Perilous Realm" by J.R.R. Tolkien; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($28)One of the great joys of reading J.R.R. Tolkien's work is reading him aloud. Nowhere is this clearer than in the first story in "Tales from the...

The Plough ? Harrow Hotel Birmingham: Staying Over

Michael Rowley find himself stuck somewhere between the Seventies and Tolkien's Shire at The Plough & Harrow Hotel in Birmingham's Edgbaston district. 'From the road, the Plough & Harrow, a Swallow hotel, looks attractive and...

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