The Lord Of The Rings News

The soundtrack “Last Goodbye” for the final Hobbit film arrives.

November 22, 2014

When it came to finally bid farewell to Middle-earth after 16 years and six epic films, Peter Jackson gave the last word to one of the original members of the Fellowship. Billy Boyd, who portrayed hobbit Pippin in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, collaborated with Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens to write “The […]

The final trailer for the Hobbit shows dramatic war-torn scene

November 9, 2014

A dramatic new trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has sparked excitement online. Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson is behind the third film in a popular trilogy based on JRR Tolkien’s timeless masterpiece, The Hobbit. Unlike the first two films in Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, which each had several trailers and a wide […]

“Hobbit” Third Installment Gets New Title

April 25, 2014

Director Peter Jackson has announced the news that his third installment of The Hobbit trilogy has got a new name. The original name of the third film was thought to be ‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’, however, the film has been retitled as ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’. Peter Jackson has […]

Legal Battle Brewing between Tolkien Estate and Warner Bros

March 13, 2013

According to reports, an $80 million lawsuit has been waged between the Tolkien Estate, the legal body which manages the property of J.R.R. Tolkien, and Warner Bros., the studios responsible for producing the Lord of the Rings film franchise. It is currently understood that the Tolkien Estate has launched litigation proceedings against Warner Bros. for […]

“The Hobbit”: Peace in Middle-Earth?

October 5, 2007

Last month, in the academic journal Science, paleontologists presented new evidence that they had discovered an overlooked relative of prehistoric man. Officially, they’ve labeled the species Homo floresiensis — unofficially, they’re calling them ”hobbits” — but by any other name what they’ve found are the 18,000-year-old fossilized remains of a three-foot-tall hominid with a recessed […]

Tolkien’s son completed father’s unfinished epic

March 25, 2007

All aboard for Middle Earth! Christopher Tolkien, son of the late, legendary creator of The Lord of the Rings, has completed an unfinished story started by his father which is to be published this April. Mr Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on The Children of Hurin, which his father began in 1918 […]

The Two Towers “certifiable epic”

November 28, 2002

Peter Jackson’s film The Two Towers has been praised as a much better one than The Fellowship of the Ring, in the first review of it. “The Two Towers surpasses all levels of expectation, and in the process it makes everything that The Fellowship of the Ring achieved look tame by comparison,” gushed glossy British […]

New Lord of the Rings: Two Towers of Power

September 24, 2002

Last week New Line Cinema held two sneak previews of 16 minutes of assembled footage of The Two Towers which featured a look at some new characters and a glimpse of a giant war scene. It was all very impressive, especially the new computer-generated character Gollum, who puts Jar Jar Binks to shame. Two Towers, […]

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