Tag: Tolkien
Tolkien (Drama movie: trailer).
Here’s the second trailer for the drama movie Tolkien, looking at the life of orphaned fantasy author JRR Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration for his fabulous fantasy novels among a group of fellow outcasts at school, before being plunged into World War One. Top dating tip. When trying to seduce Lily […]
Tolkien (2019) (movie trailer).
A bio-pic drama, aptly named just Tolkien, which stars actor Nicholas Hoult as the young J.R.R. Tolkien and how he finds inspiration for his Lord of the Rings books from first, his friendship group at school, and then the horrors of trench life during World War One.
Tolkien (is talking).
Fox Searchlight is releasing a new movie, entitled Tolkien, to be released in cinemas in the UK on 3rd May 2019. Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War […]
The Fall of Gondolin: milking the Tolkien cow.
HarperCollins is to publish J.R.R Tolkien’s semi-abandoned work ‘The Fall of Gondolin‘ along with the liberally beautiful artwork of Alan Lee (and edited as always by the son of the great man, Christopher Tolkien). This looks like more milking of the cow, along the lines of Beren and Lúthien, but if it brings us extra original […]
The elfen swag of Middle Earth.
Warner are running a design competition for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey movie. They are requesting submissions of artworks in four different categories: Characters, Creatures, Weapons and Locations. Please note, the competition is only open to people 18+ living in the USA. Boo! Come on boys, give us Brits and Europeans a chance, too. The […]
Hobbit movies? Just one more, begs Peter Jackson.
You have to hand it to director Peter Jackson for chutzpah. Not content with two films for the Hobbit, he’s now stretching it to three. The news comes from Peter’s FaceBook page where he has just announced, “It has been an unexpected journey indeed, and in the words of Professor Tolkien himself, ‘A tale that […]
