Is Elijah Wood actually in The Hobbit 3? Warner Bros.’...
Late last month, Warner Bros. put out a new, updated one-pager press release for The Hobbit: The...
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Where is the money in Middle-earth?
Just the other day, I was pondering the 12 silver pennies that Barliman Butterbur uses to buy Bill...
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Listen to legendary British actor Nicol Williamson’s 1974 abridgement of...
In 1974, Argo Records released a dramatised four-record LP audio abridgement of The Hobbit. In an interesting quirk...
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Tolkien’s 100-year-old poem that marked the beginning of Middle-earth
It’s the centenary of Middle-earth. In a piece in The Guardian, Tolkien scholar John Garth analyses Tolkien’s 1914...
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Beyond birthdays: examining Tolkien’s Letter #214
Another September 22 — the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo — has just passed. In our latest Library...
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The New TORn Book – Middle-earth Madness
TheOneRing.net is pleased to announce that to celebrate the birthdays of Frodo and Bilbo, we are releasing a...
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