New artwork for The Hobbit featuring Bilbo and Mirkwood’s spiders!

Warner Bros. Exclusive Content: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Listen to 30-second sneak previews of all 29 tracks on The Desolation of Smaug soundtrack

A new poster of Thorin Oakenshield coming to a bus shelter near you!

A Tolkien Collection worth the Pilgrimage - This is ( Read more... )

of this amazing Times Magazine article/interview that Caitlin Moran very recently did with Benedict Cumberbatch: What’s not to love about Benedict Cumberbatch?There are so many parts I want to quote, I'd have to copy/paste pretty much the whole thing over! The one where she asks him to do some acting and he does John Harrison and Smaug for her ( Read more... )

One of the covers of the February 2013 issue of Empire Magazine:


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Sad news - Visual Effects Producer Eileen Moran dies in New Zealand I remember her from the LotR EE Extras. So sad. :(

OFFICIAL: Six incredible video clips from The Hobbit

Hobbit TV spot 10 officially up

Richard Armitage talks to TheOneRing.net

Entertainment Weekly offers a ‘first look’ at the next Hobbit movie

Say it right: Middle-earth ( Read more... )

I'm soooo behind... *sigh*

Ian McKellen blog: has Peter Jackson changed?

Video: 60-second Japanese Hobbit TV spot with new scenes!

Listen to the full Hobbit soundtrack on Empire!

Boyens and Serkis discuss The Hobbit’s tone with SFX

Spoilers galore in Hobbit movie tie-in books

Spy report: third Hobbit trailer exists!

New Video: Hobbit TV Spot ( Read more... )

Preview Howard Shore’s ‘Radagast the Brown’! - A very exciting piece of music, and it clearly shows that while they have a lot in common, the Hobbit soundtrack won't just be a retread of the LotR one!

TV Spot #3 for The Hobbit!

Ian McKellen updates his blog

The Official Movie Guide behind-the-scenes shots

Parallel Universe reports from The ( Read more... )

Got a bit behind due to Sandy, so let's start catching up on the past week's worth (or so) of Hobbit news:

Hobbity Goodness Invades Your Magazine Shelf

Collider.com’s The Hobbit Coverage

The Middle of Middle-earth keeps developing!

Collecting The Precious - The Noble Collection’s Bilbo Baggins’ Contract Winners - sadly I'm not among them, but ( Read more... )

Sheesh, I don't update for a week and sure enough there's more than a baker's dozen of Hobbit related news items cluttering up my tabs... Dividing this up in two; the merchandise related links will be in a separate entry.

PJ posts 16 new images from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on his FB Page

Giant dwarves in Manhattan! - I hope I'll be able ( Read more... )

Secrecy surrounds Hobbit filming

Actors journey to Middle-earth - Benedict Cumberbatch and Mikael Persbrandt, in this case.

Also related:

LOTR still found in the fabric of Queenstown, Hobbit next

Fox to mount Oscar campaign for Andy Serkis. Are you ready for a motion-capture Oscar nominee?

Empire Magazine’s Massive LOTR IssueOMG, almost ( Read more... )

I have been remiss in sharing this Time article about fan fiction, which actually gives a well-balanced overview of fan fiction, its authors, copyright questions and different authors' reactions to it. Well worth a read.

The Boy Who Lived Forever By Lev Grossman