Talks about Happy Feet 2 and the "training" that went into that and mentioned that Lij will be in the Hobbit! But alas, no further details about TH disclosed ( Read more... )

Other than the iffy news about this Tauriel elf woman played by Evangeline Lily couple days back : http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2011/06/19/45296-pj-confirms-evans-and- ( Read more... )

About writing the Hobbit for children...
"When I published The Hobbit-hurriedly and without due consideration - I was still influenced by the convention that ‘fairy-stories’ are naturally directed to children (with or without the silly added waggery ‘from seven to seventy’). And I had children of my own. Bu the desire to address children, as such ( Read more... )