Pick up filming has begun! And – might we get...
Our good friends over at our partner site Tolkiendrim.com reported here that shooting of pick ups for the...
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Ray Harryhausen, effects wizard, died May 7th
As TORn readers will no doubt have heard by now, Ray Harryhausen, the man who pioneered stop motion...
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Even Bella Swan would #votebilbo
Readers will already know about the hashtag war going on out there, from Rasputin the Evil Balrog’s post...
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Smaug is the richest character in the fantasy world
A story we posted a while back has recently resurfaced, and as we’re all thinking about dragons right...
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Ancient gold ring which may have inspired Tolkien
There is a buzz in Tolkiendom right now about a gold ring dating from Roman times, which may...
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Some things TORn staffers were excited to see in PJ’s...
This afternoon many of us spent an hour with Peter Jackson (well, virtually, anyway!) as he chatted about making The Hobbit movies, and gave us some tantalising glimpses of what may be to come in the second film, The Desolation of Smaug. We've already posted some detailed commentary on what was shown; here are some of the things which made TORn staffers geek out...
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