Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin got asked for his vote as part of PBS’ The Great American Read, which features celebrities weighing in with what they think is the most beloved book in the country. Turns out, he thinks the honor should go not to his own books about Westeros but to another …
Online streaming services fight tooth and nail to win over subscribers, which is why we weren’t especially surprised to learn that Amazon is spent a boatload of cash for the global TV rights to The Lord of the Rings. In a press release last fall, Amazon confirmed that it would produce a multi-season TV series …
Less than three years after Warner Bros. released the third and final movie in the Hobbit trilogy, Amazon announced on Monday that it has acquired the global television rights to The Lord of the Rings. According to the press release, Amazon has picked up a multi-season commitment for a TV series based on the legendary books. …
As moviegoing audiences become increasingly savvy, it’s more difficult than ever for filmmakers to surprise them with twists and turns they never would have seen coming. If you’ve seen enough movies, you can probably guess the big plot twist ahead of time… but did you know that some movies have plot twists that never actually …
An extremely rare map of Middle-earth annotated by “The Lord of the Rings” author JRR Tolkien is on sale in the U.K. for $92,138. The map is one of a number of works by celebrated illustrator Pauline Baynes being sold by Oxford-based Blackwell’s Rare Books. Blackwell’s told FoxNews.com that the map was found in a …
This is an IndieGoGo project that’s so awesome, we just have to hope it’s not a scam. A team of architects in the U.K. led by a man named Jonathan Wilson has started an IndieGoGo campaign to raise £1.85 billion (USD$2.89 billion) to build Minas Tirith, the beautiful city that was built into a mountainside in The Lord …
This fall, HarperCollins will publish The Story of Kullervo, an unfinished manuscript from the beginning of J.R.R. Tolkien’s career. Although the tale was shared previously in Tolkien Stories: Volume 7, this will be the first time it has ever been released on its own for public consumption.
We’ve all seen Orlando Bloom star in both the Lord of the Rings saga and in The Hobbit trilogy, but have we really paid attention every one of his scenes, even the ones where he’s just in the background? Because as some movie fans pointed out with help of a few GIFs from the movie, …
Thirteen years after the premiere of The Fellowship of the Ring, the Lord of the Rings film saga came to a close in December with the last installment of The Hobbit. You can now watch the entire story from start to finish, but even after watching the extended editions of each and every film, you’re still probably …
What better way to celebrate the release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies than to remember all the poor orcs, humans, elves and ents who perished in the previous films? Digg has cobbled together a six-minute recap of every death scene in the original trilogy, from the first battle scene to the fall of …
