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Maguire Not Appearing In "The Hobbit"
December 17, 2009 - Rumors of "Spiderman" star Toby Maguire being cast as Bilbo Baggins are false, even though he says he'd enjoy appearing in the film. |
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Did J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Intend to Write Together?
October 19, 2009 - An interview with Dr. Steven Beebe, the professor who discovered Lewis's unpublished notebook with the beginnings of a collaborative manuscript between him and Tolkien. |
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The Gods Return to Earth: C.S. Lewis' Review of The Fellowship of the Ring
September 30, 2009 - "Nothing quite like it was ever done before.... The utterly new achievement of Professor Tolkien is that he carries a comparable sense of reality unaided. Probably no book yet written in the world is quite such a radical instance of what its author has elsewhere called 'sub-creation'." |
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"Lord of the Films" Review!
September 23, 2009 - Hear what Megan had to say about JW Braun's new companion to the movie trilogy! |
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An Interview with J.W. Braun, Author of "The Lord of the Films"
September 1, 2009 - Here's an exciting interview with the author of the new book "The Lord of the Films," along with excerpts and the promise of an upcoming review. |
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Elijah Wood "Excited" About The Hobbit
August 25, 2009 - Frodo from The Lord of the Rings weighs on his Hobbit thoughts. |
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"The Tolkien Professor" Launches Online Lectures/Podcast Exploring Tolkien
July 11, 2009 - Dr. Corey Olsen has bug a series of online lectures/podcasts, going through Tolkien's books in detail, exploring Tolkien's world, characters, language, and themes... This is an casual academic study we highly recommend. |
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Beginning of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Collaborative Work Discovered
July 10, 2009 - The beginning of what was intended to be a collaborative work between Tolkien and Lewis has been discovered in Oxford. |
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Tolkien Available on the Amazon Kindle
May 8, 2009 - Middle-earth appears in digital format on Amazon's digital book reader. |
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Tom Shippey Reviews "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun"
May 7, 2009 - Here's a scholarly review that gives a glimpse into the depth that such an educated work by Tolkien encompasses. |