J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

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Tolkien estate settles 'Lord of the Rings' wrangle

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The estate of fantasy writer J.R.R Tolkien has reached a settlement with the studio behind the "Lord of the Rings" movies after alleging it had not received "even one penny" of royalties from the trilogy of money-spinning films, officials said Tuesday. The legal dispute had threatened to disrupt production of "The Hobbit," the eagerly anticipated prequel to the "Lord of the Rings" which is due to begin filming in 2010. An attorney for the Tolkien Trust, which together with HarperCollins Publishers had filed a lawsuit against New Line Cinema in February 2008, said the settlement was finalized ahead of a scheduled October 19 trial. ... Read Full Story

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Book Review – The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Their Friends by Harry Lee Poe and James Ray Veneman

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Would you like to tour the landscape that inspired the works of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien? Perhaps you have always wondered where much of the inspiration for The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings originated. In The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Their Friends , by Harry Lee Poe (text) and James Ray Veneman (photography), you will find such a treasure. Much has been written of the writing group named the ‘Inklings’ whose notable members include C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, however, none that include such stunning photos ... Read Full Story

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J.R.R.Tolkien's eBooks Discounted This Week

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This week we are discounting all Tolkien's eBooks. The Hobbit , Lord of the Rings (individually and collectively) and the Children of Hurin . It took six year to convince the J.R.R. Tolkien's estate to put these great books into eBook format. That is "more than half as long as the author needed to complete his Lord of the Rings trilogy" according to the Associated Press (via USA Today ). "The Tolkien estate wanted to be absolutely confident that e-books were not something ephemeral," said David Brawn, publishing operations director at HarperCollins UK. "We were finally able to convince the Tolkien ... Read Full Story

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No kidding: Yet another J. R. R. Tolkien novel

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From: fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

Interestingly enough, the master appears to be even more prolific in death than he was during his lifetime. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún will be released next month. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Here's the blurb: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and '-30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien's extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic ... Read Full Story

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"The Hobbit" will be continuation "The Lord of the Rings"

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Director GUILLERMO DEL TORO negotiates for a director's armchair under the novel « The Hobbit » John Ronald Reuel Tolkien which creation is financed with film studioes New Line and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . On it informs Hollywood Reporter. Earlier surname GUILLERMO DEL TORO has been included in shorts-leaves of directors which, in opinion of studios, could head the project. Hollywood Reporter marks, that it is not enough at whom from directors there is such passion to a removed material and respect for the primary source which is supported by a solid operational experience above fantastic pictures. Earlier DEL TORO has removed films « Pan's Labyrinth ... Read Full Story

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Guillermo del Toro Talks ‘Hobbit’ Monsters

Guillermo del Toro (director of Hellboy and Blade II) dished to Total Film in a 10-page Q&A about his forthcoming movie adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. For those of you who somehow missed the phenomenon of Peter Jackson’s Lord of The Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit is a prequel to The Fellowship of the Ring [...]

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