The Hobbit Archives

The Rings of Power Cast Teases the Plot of Season 2 as the Showrunners Depart

Jed | Hollywood Scholar | May 8, 2023 | 0

Very few positives can be derived from the current writers’ strike, but the most evident is the cancellation or delay of several woke Hollywood abominations. Unfortunately for Tolkien fans and normies alike, the strike has not affected Amazon’s The Rings of Power inordinately. It has been confir...

A Horse Has Died on the Set of The Rings of Power

Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Mar 31, 2023 | 0

On March 21st, Amazon released a statement confirming the tragic passing of a horse on the set of their production of The Rings of Power. Very little information regarding this death has been released, with the exception of the initial report that cardiac arrest was to blame. In a public release fro...

Warner Bros. vs. Amazon – The Battle for Lord of the Rings

Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Mar 3, 2023 | 0

Despite the best efforts of both Warner Bros. and Amazon, the Tolkien fanbase is still strong, the books fueling a passion unrivaled by any other franchise. While the fans of the books and the world have been consistently strong, the quality of the live-action interpretations of this literary univer...

Warner Bros. Will Make More Lord of the Rings Movies

virginiakublawi | Feb 23, 2023 | 0

Shadowfax, show us the meaning of haste! Today, news broke that more Middle Earth-set films are on the way at Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, and Embracer Group AB’s Middle-Earth Enterprises. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced this on today’s earnings call. Check out some statement...

Icon of Geekdom Ian Holm Passes Away at 88

virginiakublawi | Jun 19, 2020 | 7

This morning news broke that Sir Ian Holm has passed away. Variety reports that he died in the hospital from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. Although he may be most known as Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings films and The Hobbit’s framing device, he had a long and varied caree...

REVIEW: Tolkien (2019)

virginiakublawi | May 23, 2019 | 0

When I first heard that a biopic was being done for J.R.R. Tolkien, it occurred to me that it seems strange how they hadn’t already made one. After all, biographies never seem to go out of style, and he is the father of modern fantasy as we know it. That being said, Tolkien’s estate protects &he...