Production of Lord of the Rings TV Series to move to U.K.

With Season 1 finished filming, Amazon Studios has decided to move production of the most expensive TV show in history to the United Kingdom.

First Photo of Amazon’s Lord of the Ring Series Released, Premieres Sept 2022

The first image from Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series hints at revealing a bit more history to Middle-earth… a reveal that will premiere in September 2022!

Andy Serkis to read The Lord of the Rings Audiobook

To accompany his reading of The Hobbit, Andy Serkis and Harper Collins UK will be releasing a brand new complete audiobook of The Lord of the Rings in September of this year.

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Production of Lord of the Rings TV Series to move to U.K.

With Season 1 finished filming, Amazon Studios has decided to move production of the most expensive TV show in history to the United Kingdom. Primarily, this looks to be a fiscal move as many of Amazon's current series are already being produced in the U.K. And while...

First Photo of Amazon’s Lord of the Ring Series Released, Premieres Sept 2022

Along with a new press release, Amazon has just released the first image from their upcoming TV series set in the 2nd Age of Middle-earth: What is this a picture of? First note that, right where the sun looks to be setting, is what looks to be a tree! My first...

Andy Serkis to read The Lord of the Rings Audiobook

To accompany his reading of The Hobbit, Andy Serkis and Harper Collins UK will be releasing a brand new complete audiobook of The Lord of the Rings in September of this year. There is a current Lord of the Rings audiobook narrated by Rob Inglis (published in 1965), it...

Animated “The War of the Rohirrim” Film Announced

Jun 10, 2021

A new anime film based on Helm Hammerhand and the story of Helm’s Deep, set 250 years before The Lord of the Rings.

Unfinished Tales Audiobook Released

May 12, 2021

HarperCollins has just released an audiobook of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales, a collection of narratives from all the ages of Middle-earth.

Tolkien Letter Describing his Vision of Hobbits to Sell for $25,000

Feb 26, 2021

A letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to illustrator Doris Sykes will be sold by Hermitage Fine Art Monaco for £15,000 ($25,0000).

Tolkien Society Posts Theme for Summer Seminar : Tolkien and Diversity

Feb 24, 2021

The Tolkien Society–an”educational charity, literary society, and international fan club, devoted to promoting the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien–has announced the theme for this year’s Summer Seminar: Tolkien and Diversity.

The Babylon Bee reads The Lord of the Rings: Chapter 8, Fog on the Barrow Downs

Feb 22, 2021

The Hobbits leave Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, and quickly encounter one of the most frightening sequences in The Lord of the Rings.

The Babylon Bee reads The Lord of the Rings: Chapter 7, In the House of Tom Bombadil

Feb 17, 2021

This week, we’re reading Chapters 5 and 6, A Conspiracy Unmasked and The Old Forest, and we look at how the first steps of the Hobbit fellowship are begun, and their initial encounter with Tom Bombadil.

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