BoxOffice predicts The Battle of Five Armies’ domestic income
The staff at BoxOffice has put up a list of estimates of how much the main fall movies,...
Continue readingComic-Con Montage: New Shots from Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition?
With all the excitement over the teaser trailer for The Battle of Five Armies, we shouldn’t forget that...
Continue readingA Tolkien Collection worth the Pilgrimage
Recently I reported on the first Tolkien-based tour in the Swiss Alps, “In the Footsteps of Tolkien,” run...
Continue readingIn Tolkien’s Real Misty Mountains
Humphrey Carpenter’s excellent biography, Tolkien, was published way back in 1977, and it is still considered the best...
Continue readingResearching THE FRODO FRANCHISE: Part 5, Watching Peter Jackson Direct
Welcome back to another in my occasional series about how I did the research for my book, The...
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Researching THE FRODO FRANCHISE: Part 4, Now It Can Be...
Of the three trips I took to New Zealand in 2003 and 2004 to conduct interviews for my...
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