Hobbit

THE VISITOR Trailer - 1979' Sci-Fi Movie HDThis batshit Italian import involving humans descended from an evil alien overlord, a telekinetic girl, professional basketball, and conspiratorial Satanists stars a cast of aging legends (John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Sam Peckinpah) who were hopefully well-compensated for their participation. You, too, will be well-compensated for your time, because the singularly bizarre The Visitor is truly out of this world. Watch on Peacock. THE VISITOR Trailer -…

My earliest reading memoryThe first book I read by myself, rather than at my mother’s proverbial knee, was The Coral Island by RM Ballantyne. I was around six and I’m fairly sure it was on loan from my teacher, Miss Meade, as our house contained no books other than the Bible. I remember nothing of the plot, but I do recall the vivid sense of a Pacific landscape that it brought to our little prefab in Cowdenbeath, the sense of a wonderful elsewhere, untainted by coal dust or smoke.My favourite book growing upLewis…

A first edition copy of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit has sold for more than £10,000 after being discovered in a charity shop.The rare copy of Bilbo Baggins’ tale was stumbled upon by a manager of the Cancer Research UK superstore in Dundee. As the store only sells items for £5 or less, the book was put up for sale on eBay, where it made £10,099.50 for the charity.The book is one of the first 1,500 copies of the children’s literature classic, which sold out soon after publication in 1937 due to rave reviews. These editions…

Image: Standing Stone GamesAmazon is willing to do whatever it takes to get what it can out of the parts of Middle-earth it holds—including working with the other proverbial ringbearers in the franchise’s complex web of rights-owners. And if that means trying again at the world of gaming, so be it.Jason Mantzoukas On What Makes Paper Girls UniqueToday Amazon Games and Embracer Group—the latter of which, as the owner of Middle-earth Enterprises, has the adaptive rights to many elements of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and…

Next month will see the release of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a fresh retelling of the iconic character from J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy books. Like several other PC games, this adventure will allow for some impressive visual features if you have the right hardware, including Nvidia's fancy ray-tracing technology. This is a far cry from the 2022 gameplay trailer, which was met with criticism toward the graphical performance shortly before Nacon delayed the game.While Gollum's journey across Middle-earth…

Image via Warner Bros. Just as the Tolkien fandom was recovering from the absolute travesty of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Warner Bros. announced that it is teaming up with New Line Cinema and Embracer Group to develop new Middle-earth movies. J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional universe is all over the place these days. Amazon Studios claims to have bought the right to the appendices in The Lord of the Rings from The Tolkien Estate, while Embracer has just acquired Middle-earth Enterprises,…

Want to live here? You can. For a few nights. Image: Larnie Nicolson/AirbnbOne of the coolest things about Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films is that if you travel to New Zealand, you can actually visit many of its real-life locations. But what if you could go a step further? What if you could live there?At 4 p.m. EST on December 13, “The One-and-Only Hobbiton” located in Matamata, Waikato, New Zealand is going live on Airbnb. And the host isn’t kidding when they write “one and only.” It’s the actual, privately owned…

via New Line Cinema The actors behind the Hobbit ensemble in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings cinematic trilogy have addressed the backlash of Amazon’s diverse casting for The Rings of Power in the only wholesome way they knew how: By declaring their support for the new team and saying that all are welcome in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. More than two decades since they set out from the Shire (or at least its production set equivalent in New Zealand), it seems that the cast of The Lord of the Rings remains an…

From left: Markella Kavenagh as Elanor “Nori” Brandyfoot, Sara Zwangobani as Marigold Brandyfoot, Dylan Smith as Largo Brandyfoot, and Megan Richards as Poppy Proudfellow.Image: Ben Rothstein/Prime VideoLord of the Rings fans are all very familiar with Hobbits. And while the new prequel series The Rings of Power doesn’t have any Hobbits that we’ll recognize, it does introduce Harfoots, proto-Hobbit characters that certainly look like they’ll stand in forthe Second Age equivalent of Frodo and Sam.Since Rings of Power’s…

Embracer Group AB, one of Europe's biggest gaming firms, ramped up its acquisition pace after striking deals for six companies including the intellectual property rights for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit. “Gaming is the best way to monetize IPs in the long term but not necessarily the most efficient way to create new IPs,” Embracer's chief executive, Lars Wingefors, said in an interview following the group's second-quarter report.The CEO says the acquisition of Middle-earth Enterprises “enables many…