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Billy Connolly Joins Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ As Dain Ironfoot
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Billy Connolly to star as dwarf warrior Dain Ironfoot in The Hobbit
Billy Connolly Joins ‘The Hobbit’
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Comedian Billy Connolly has rounded out the cast of Peter Jackson's two-film 3D adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit." According to Variety, Connolly ("Still Crazy," "The Boondock Saints") will play dwarf warrior Dain Ironfoot, cousin of Thorin Oakenshield.
- Billy Connolly to play Dain Ironfoot in The Hobbit (indielondon.co.uk)
- 'The Hobbit' Rounds Out Cast with Billy Connolly in Key Role (api.bing.com)
Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line and director Peter Jackson have announced that Billy Connolly will be the one playing Dain Ironfoot in their two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Peter Jackson welcomed the news of Connolly to Middle-earth: "..;.
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- Peter Jackson Finishes Casting The Hobbit, Adds Billy Connolly (pastemagazine.com)
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s universe there is a vast array of characters available for actors to portray. Some, like Evangeline Lilly’s elf, Tauriel, are created specifically for The Hobbit, while some actors, like Benedict Cumberbatch (War Horse), lend their performance and voice to a mythological creature. Then there is Billy Connolly (Boondock Saints) who gets to play one of the most fearsome and storied dwarves in all of Tolkien’s tomes. The...
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Scottish folk singer, comedian, and actor Billy Connolly's raunchy stand-up routines have inspired drinking games on campuses throughout the US — if you value your liver, do not attempt to drink every time Connolly says the F-word. His portrayal of Il Duce in The Boondock Saints (1999) also helped turn the movie into a cult classic.
Now comes word that he's joined the cast of Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit...
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Last week, the Supreme Court made a decision to uphold a copyright law for foreign works that will remove works from famous authors from the public domain.
eBookNewser has more: “Texts from J.R.R. Tolkien and George Orwell have been removed from the public domain in the United States, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling this week. On Wednesday, The Supreme Court upheld a 1994 law which gives copyright protection to body of foreign works that had...
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A community portal about J. R. R. Tolkien with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE was an English writer and university professor who is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as many other works. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language and English...more
A community portal about J. R. R. Tolkien with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE was an English writer and university professor who is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as many other works. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language and English language and literature. He was an orthodox Roman Catholic. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis ; they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings.
