To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Hobbit Presse they have invented a very fun contest to win a fantastic prize, a special limited edition of Herrn der Ringe. Write an original letter to the author J.R.R. Tolkien! Write down the words you always wanted to say to your favorite writer, or ask the questions you always wanted to ask.
GTC AG, a Swiss based company, announces the acquisition of the second most expensive Tolkien book ever sold; a signed Hobbit bought from Peter Harringtons for GBP53,000 setting a new benchmark for a signed book. This signed Hobbit will be one of the showpieces for the largest private Tolkien collection to be exhibited around the world beginning in 2011 by the GTC Roadshow, which coincides with th
It is the season again when nights gets longer and over here in Europe all leaves have fallen from the trees, the cold weather is back and we all huddle together around the fire. The quest has begon again to find an original gift? This year I'm going to make some nice suggestions, by creating two lists which will help you find a perfect gift for any Tolkien and Hobbit lover or collector. Part I wi
I’ve been trying to find a book to read to my daughter (who is now five). I wanted something that was sci-fi or fantasy, interesting enough for me to enjoy, long enough to space out over many bedtimes and of course suitable for her age.
I feel a bit dumb to have searched so long [...]
Guillermo del Toro por fin nos ha desvelado como se va a realizar la película o saga de El Hobbit. Según ha declarado, tras las reuniones preliminares de Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens y Del Toro, es decir, los guionistas para la ocasión, han llegado a la conclusión de que ya no se hablaba de la primera y segunda película, y comenzaron a hablar de la película, los dos episodios o
Qué más se puede decir de J. R. R. Tolkien???Increíble que alguien pudiera crear todo un universo paralelo con sus propias historias, mitos, leyendas, lenguas, genealogías, etc.En este primer libro, se brindan datos generales de estas razas y sus costumbres. Si me pongo filosófica, podría decir que es una historia en la que un personaje común y silvestre, puesto en una situación extraordi
On September 21, 2007 the UK The Hobbit turned 70 and this year on March 1, 2008 we celebrated 70 years of the US edition of the Hobbit. It is a good occasion to look back at 70 years of Tolkien collecting and The Hobbit collectables and ephemera, since most Tolkien collectors all started by reading and buying a copy of The Hobbit. I'll create here a series of articles on The Hobbit collecting and
Lord of the Rings co-writer and director Peter Jackson is to write the screenplay for The Hobbit alongside director Guillermo Del Toro.
After an eight-month search for a co-writer for the Lord of the Rings prequel, executive producer Peter Jackson has decided to step in and do the job himself, much to the delight [...]
Rotten Tomatoes has an exclusive interview with Guillermo del Toro, where he discusses his approach to directing the upcoming Hobbit movie:
“When Tolkien wrote the book he was not making a prequel … and if there are gaps in the logic of the use or the powers of the ring between the first film and the [...]
As some of you might know I am quit a big fan of Tolkien Audio Books. I have an hour drive to work every day and if not listening to BBC World I tend to listen to Audio Books. It makes the drive to work a lot more fun and enjoyable. Now it seems I will be able to add some very nice Tolkien Audio Books to my collection. Here is an overview of new Tolkien Audio Books to be released this year.
ACTOR James McAvoy, reported to be a front runner for the lead in the movie adaptation of The Hobbit, says the speculation was unfounded. The 29-year-old Scottish star dismissed an earlier report in the Daily Express, in which a source...
A few weeks ago a British tabloid suggested that Jack Black, Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy were in the running to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, and being the douchebags they are people fell for it even though Guillermo del Toro said that casting wouldn’t be revealed until next year. Then an even bigger [...]
Thanks to screener Michael from TOR for the heads up.
There was a rumor not too long ago that James McAvoy (Atonement, Penelope) might be the one to play the young Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming epic movie adaptation THE HOBBIT, directed by Guillermo Del Toro.
But Collider got to hear from the man himself flat [...]
Wanted's James McAvoy is rumored to be up for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, while Tolkien's son Christopher plans to halt production on the film and its planned sequel.
Mike Morwood, one of the discoverers of the Flores hobbit, is attempting to locate more dimunitive humans in Australia’s Northern Territory - but are there really hobbits to be found, or is this just a mountain out of a molehill?
Hobbit relative ‘live in NT’
Northern Territory News, 27 May 2008
So what’s the news here?
The archaeologist said [...]
El director y productor ejecutivo, Guillermo del Toro y Peter Jackson respectivamente, de "El Hobbit" sobre las dos películas que llevarán a la gran pantalla la precuela de "El Señor de los Anillos".El calendario definitivo de las dos entregas de "El Hobbit": en lo que queda de año se terminará el guión, en 2009 se realizarán todos los trabajos de pre-producción y no será hasta 2010 cuand
In a court hearing June 6, Christopher Tolkien will try to terminate the rights to ‘The Hobbit.’ The 83 year old son of J.R.R. Tolkien accuses New Line Cinema of ‘accounting chicanery,’ also known as ‘Hollywood accounting.’ He says the studio still owes his family $160 million of the $6 billion it made from the [...]
GUILLERMO DEL TORO, director of the The Hobbit, has spoken to fans about the project, along with its executive producer Peter Jackson - just days before a court hearing could stop the movie being made. Del Toro and Jackson...
In this week’s edition of Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American, there’s a segment entitled Little Brains, Big Brains, about the Indonesian hobbit or homo floresiensis.
Little Brains, Big Brains: Latest Flores Hobbit News
Scientific American, May 21 2008
You can download the podcast or listen to it straight from the site. Kate Wong, the resident anthropology [...]
Executive producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro participated in a live chat session earlier today where they answered previously submitted reader questions regarding their plans for The Hobbit movie and its sequel, currently referred to as Film Two (F2).
Continuando con los reviews de esta semana, ahora le tocó el turno al espectacular Esty (diseñador de los iconos de feed 3D) que hace unos meses se creó un blog de “El Hobbit”, donde ha resumido todas las noticias en cuanto a esta entrega sobre el origen del señor de los anillos, sin duda dará [...]
This is just a reminder informing you that The Hobbit chat with Peter Jackson And Guillermo del Toro will be taking place in a matter of hours.
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I’m gonna get a quick rest but before I do, here’s an invitation to you by Weta… for the hottest event yet this year…
An Unexpected Party
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro invite you to a live internet chat about The Hobbit.
Peter and Guillermo would love to answer your questions and hear your comments about [...]
This seem like a up hill battle for Guillermor del Toro if he does not get all of the old Lord of the Rings cast aboard. But with it seems that it is good to see a lot of the old cast are back. I am sure it will still be just as or even better then what Peter Jackson would do.Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, and Ian McKellan All In 'Hobbit' TalksCinematical, CA - 1 hour agoNo matter how many times Gu
We’ve heard from Ian McKellen, he’s on board. Elijah Wood said he would return if needed, as did Cate Blanchett and Andy Serkis. Among the rest of that cast we haven’t heard from is Liv Tyler, who played elf Arwen in the Lord of the Rings. Would she return to play her character in the [...]
Ha sido anunciado oficialmente, después de cuatro meses de hablar y gastar un tiempo “precioso” ha sido anunciado que Guillermo Del Toro dirigirá El Hobbit. Según la revista Variety, Del Toro se trasladará a Nueva Zelanda para trabajar con Peter Jackson en la producción de la pelicula. Se presupone que tanto Ian McKellen cono el resto del casting repetiran personajes. Originariamente Pe
I’m gonna get a quick rest but before I do, here’s an invitation to you by Weta… for the hottest event yet this year…
An Unexpected Party
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro invite you to a live internet chat about The Hobbit.
Peter and Guillermo would love to answer your questions and hear your comments about [...]
From TheMovieBlog.comMelissa, age 34 and known to her friends as Fiver, is an avid Lord of the Rings fans and she was more excited than most to find out about the Hobbit Prequels. But then she was more than disappointed that she is unlikely to live to see them completed. She has Lou Gerig’s disease and the average person lives 3-5 years after diagnosis. She has had the disease for a year now.Her husband has put together a petition online to hopefully reach out to NewLine and Peter Jackson (and now DelToro if that helps) to get her a gig as an extra in the film.More herePetition linkAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis/Lou Gerig's disease
Peter Brown, one of the discoverers of the hobbit hominid skeleton from Liang Bua cave in Flores posts a robust -and credible - defence against the charge that the Hobbit underwent dental work. He posts his rebuttal on his website, along with high-resolution photos which you can read here.
The tooth, and nothing but!
La web TheOneRing.net, que fue escriba de las aventuras de Peter Jackson antes y después de terminar su titánica adaptación de The Lord of The Rings, se ha puesto de nuevo en marcha para hacer lo mismo con el periplo que le espera a Guillermo del Toro, que adaptará "The Hobbit", además de una secuela que la unirá con la trilogía y que no estará respaldada por la obra literaria (aunque es posible que coja de aqui y de allá con las docenas de recopilaciones que el hijo de Tolkien ha perpetrado con la obra de su padre).Lo cierto es que encuentro gratuito hacer dos peliculas, pero es evidente que hay tres razones para ello: los DVDs que vendrán, la necesidad de dar toda la información posible al espectador (y si hay que contar la vida de Aragorn con los Elfos, de como Bilbo se va ga
“They can dredge up old cadavers in my closet. I’m not running for president. I’m a f—ing filmmaker!”
-Guillermo Del Toro on the resurfacing of a 2006 interview where he said he was not a fan of heroic fantasy
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Now that it’s official that Del Toro will direct The Hobbit and its sequel, the director said he wants to bring back the original cast from the Lord of the Rings trilogy for his two films.
A review of The Hobbit Trap, a book about the Flores hominid that was released last week which alleges that the Hobbit skeleton shows signs of having gone through dental work.
Hobbit or not, book tests the tooth of the matter
The Age, 27 April 2008
Does the allegation of the Hobbit having gone through dental work sound [...]
Since it was first announced, everyone has been wondering what will become of this supposed Hobbit sequel.For the first time publicly Guillermo del Toro spoke publicly to TheOneRing.net about the planned continuation: "You know, I traveled to New Zealand just a little while ago, and one of the main reasons for going was to sit down and talk about the second film. 'The Hobbit', the book, is really one self-contained film, so for the second movie we sat down and worked it out. When we did this we got really excited because this second film is not a 'tag on', it's not 'filler', it's an integral part of telling the story of those 50 years of history lost in the narrative. There will be certain things that we will see from the first movie but from a different point of view, but it will feel lik
THE HOBBITY el premio al mejor director va para...!Al parecer finalmente se ha decidido la discusión por la dirección de la próxima entrega de ciencia ficción en la edad media "The Hobbit". Y quedó nomás Guillermo del Toro. Con entregas como El Laberinto del Fauno o las dos películas de Hellboy (que una se estrena pronto, ver noticia correspondiente) el director queda ahora a la merced de los fans que discuten si podrá o no hacerle justicia a la edad media como se hizo en las 3 entregas de El Señor de Los anillos.Por ahora Del Toro confirmó que se mudará a Nueva Zelanda (donde Peter Jackson realizó también las otras 3 películas) para realizar la filmación de las dos entregas (si, dos) de The Hobbit. Pasará allí nada menos que 4 años, esperándose el estreno de la primer e
Y yo estoy más que feliz con la noticia.
Del Toro no solo logró un fabuloso Hellboy (y repetirá el plato) y un Laberinto del Fauno realmente inolvidable, si no tiene la sensibilidad para llevar el texto de Tolkien, bastante mas lúdico que el Señor de los Anillos, a la pantalla sin convertirlo en un mamotreto [...]
El cineasta mexicano Guillermo del Toro fue elegido el jueves para dirigir dos películas basadas en el libro "El Hobbit" de J.R.R. Tolkien, para continuar con el éxito de la saga "El Señor de los Anillos." Los planes para realizar una precuela dividida en dos partes de la trilogía de "El Señor de los Anillos," que se basa en la continuación de tres volúmenes de la historia de "El Hobbit" de
"I am indeed blessed to become a part of the filmmaking community that Peter, Fran and their extraordinary team of collaborators have created in New Zealand"49 minutes ago ABC News (121 occurences)by Guillermo del Toro »It's Official: Guillermo del Toro to Direct The Hobbit !
Yesterday afternoon, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh, New Line president Toby Emmerich and Mary Parent announced that del Toro has agreed to direct “The Hobbit” and its sequel, hoping to release them in late 2011 and 2012. Rumours be gone…
he Academy Award-nominated writer-director has just been signed to helm back-to-back epics adapted from J.R.R. Tolkiens The Hobbit, which, after various delays, are finally going forward with Peter Jackson set to produce and together with Fran Walsh to deliver the script.
TORN had a very interesting Chat this morning with Del Toro. All Del Toros answers are very wonderful to read and a lot of good news is in this interview. Ian Mckellen will be back as Gandalf, Andy Serkis will be Gollum, John Howe and Alan Lee will be asked to be on board once again. Read the interview here.
Its official! After 4+ months of talking and wasting precious time, it has been announced that Guillermo Del Toro will be directing The Hobbit. We heard last week at the New York Comic Con that we would hear something one way or another, and now we have the good news that he will be lending [...]
After a few months of waiting to find out whether Guillermo Del Toro will be travelling to Middle Earth to take on The Hobbit, we will finally get an answer. Del Toro was on the panel for Hellboy II: The Golden Army at New York’s Comic Con, and he revealed some major info!
From Cinematical:
According to [...]
THE Hobbit, the tiny human fossil found in a cave on an Indonesian island in 2003 and claimed as a new species, was a modern human whose teeth had been worked on by a dentist, possibly in the 1930s, according to a scientist whose new book is set to inflame debate.University of Adelaide professor of biological anthropology and comparative anatomy Maciej Henneberg says in his new book, The Hobbit Trap, that a lower left molar had a filling, a claim that threatens to blow out of the water conjecture by the fossil's describers that the Hobbit is 18,000 years old."What I can see on the ... surface of the (tooth) is incredible," Professor Henneberg writes.University of New England archeologist Mike Morwood, announcing the discovery in October 2004, said the Hobbit was 1.06m tall, weighed about 2
In an off-tangent study of the diminutive bones from Flores, Indonesia, it turns out that the hobbit had flat, clown-like feet which probably limited it’s walking range (other than it’s, say, really short gait).
Flores ‘hobbit’ walked more like a clown than Frodo
New Scientist, 16 April 2008
After Dominic Monaghan’s character on Lost was killed off, he moved back to Los Angeles and tried making a relationship with Evangeline Lilly, who was still filming in Hawaii, work. The distance proved too great and the pair eventually broke up. Now following a series of “intense phone calls and meetings” (re: phone sex and sex), the two may have rekindled their romance. “They never stopped loving each other. She remained in Hawaii for the show, and he moved back to Los Angeles when he was killed off, so the distance took its toll. They decided to take a break, but it was really hard on them both.”. Evangeline, 28, flew from Hawaii to Hollywood to support British-born Dominic at the opening of his photography exhibition on March 13.I can see why they couldn’t remain apart
Until we hear an actual official announcement from New Line / Warner Brothers, anything that Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, or even Ian McKellen says about The Hobbit is unconfirmed. They can talk all they want, but as Guillermo himself says "it's all immaterial until everything is signed and put on paper." With that, on Wednesday the big guns at Entertainment Weekly caught up with Guillermo and, of course, asked him about the latest on The Hobbit. First thing to notice, Guillermo does outright say "I will be involved." Besides that, though, it's the same ol' wait-until-its-ready talk we've heard for a while now. Given the importance of this project, I think its best to leave this update in its original question-and-answer form. Frankly, it's just a brief update with hardly anyth
EL HOBBIT : Aunque aun no està confirmado que Guillermo del Toro la dirija (90 % de probabilidades de que si lo haga) quièn ya firmò contrato con la productora de Peter Jackson es Ian Mckellen, quien se pondrà nuevamente en la piel de Gandalf . Recordemos que la Warner Bros, informò que la pelìcula contarà de dos partes y se filmarà, al igual que El señor de los Anillos , toda junta y de una sola vez .Alejandro Franco para www.theronda.com.ar
Guillermo Del Toro está en conversaciones para dirigir la adaptación cinematográfica de "El Hobbit" de J.R.R. Tolkien, confirmó el viernes a la AP el manager del realizador mexicano."Todavía está en discusión, (pero) sí", dijo Gary Ungar, representante del artista en Los Angeles, absteniéndose de dar más detalles.Preguntado cuándo se haría un anuncio, respondió: "Espero que se resuelva pronto. Todos tienen que estar de acuerdo en todo".Reportes de que Del Toro dirigiría "El Hobbit" surgieron el año pasado tras anunciarse que el director de la trilogía "El Señor de los Anillos", el neozelandés Peter Jackson, fungiría sólo como productor ejecutivo.Para leer más de este articulo haga click aquí.
Este viernes se ha confirmado que Guillermo Del Toro dirigirá la adaptación cinematográfica de "El Hobbit" de J.R.R. Tolkien, de acuerdo a lo dicho por Gary Ungar, representante del artista en Los Angeles, absteniéndose de dar más detalles.Nosotros te damos aquí la información que hemos encontrado sobre esta nueva película de la secuela del Señor de los Anillos.ArgumentoEl filme estará basado en la novela de J.R.R. Tolkien "The hobbit", la antesala literaria a la saga de "El señor de los anillos". En esta historia, un hobbit llamado Bilbo Baggins se une al mago Galndalf y un grupo de enanos con el propósito de reclamar su montaña del temible dragón Smaug.RepartoDado el complicado estado de la producción, se desconoce si los actores originales de la saga de "El señor de los
el actor británico Ian McKellen a confirmado que interpretará al mago Gandalf en la película "El Hobbit"bajo la producción de Peter Jackson. Quien parece que fue la clave para que McKellen aceptara el papel. Aunque aun falta decidir sobre la dirección,el nombre que suena mas fuerte es el de Guillermo del Toro, al parecer Peter Jackson quiere que esta cinta se empieze a rodar en 2009, así que a esperar nomas.
McKellen answered numerous fan questions in an E-Post, two of which pertained specifically to The Hobbit. The short of it is that he will be back and he even in fact mentions Guillermo del Toro as the director, but unfortunately there is no signed deal yet and it's still not close to moving into production.
McKellen answered numerous fan questions in an E-Post, two of which pertained specifically to The Hobbit. The short of it is that he will be back and he even in fact mentions Guillermo del Toro as the director, but unfortunately there is no signed deal yet and it's still not close to moving into production.
Skeletons found in Palau suggest ‘Hobbits’ were just dwarf humansBy Maggie FoxMarch 11, MSNBCWASHINGTON - Tiny skeletons found in the caves of the Pacific islands of Palau undercut the theory that similar remains discovered earlier in Indonesia might be a unique hominid species, researchers reported Monday.The Palau skeletons, which date to between 900 and 2,800 years ago, appear to have belonged to so-called insular dwarfs — modern humans who grew smaller as a result of living on an island, the researchers said.They said their findings, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, show it is possible the same thing happened on the Indonesian island of Flores, where small skeletons dating back 15,000 to 18,000 years ago have intrigued scientists since they were discovered in 2004.S
Cool Stuff: Environmentally Friendly Hobbit Home Like any smart 20something, I am looking to retire in the next year or so, or at least go far far away to a land where the Drudge Report and Nick Denton have no reach. A loyal Slashfilm reader in Miami named ‘Hot Turtle Sex’ directed me to the following link belonging to a Welsh family of four (two cute kids). Using the architectural technique of “earth sheltering,” they have created a cozy home literally built into the earth that shares a helluva lot of resemblance to a hobbit hole and The Shire in J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The Dale family claims to have no real knowledge of architecture and says they built the home for 3,000 pounds (about $7,000) over a three month period using, get this, a ̶
This week’s been abuzz with another Hobbit story again, this time saying that the diminutive bones belong to malnourished humans rather than a new species. The paper, written by two Australian...
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Apariencia del Hobbit hallado en AustraliaHace aproximadamente tres años, científicos australianos descubrieron en una cueva los restos fosilizados de lo que podía ser una nueva especie. Tras su recomposición lo bautizaron como «Hobbit» por su parecido con el personaje de El Señor de los anillos y comenzó una larga investigación en la que se valoraba la posibilididad de que este hallazgo se tratase de una nueva especie con una deformidad en el cerebro. Sin embargo, en la última edición de la revista especializada Science, los científicos rechazan la teoría sostenida por los arqueólogos australianos que descubrieron los restos y que los clasificaron como de una nueva y diminuta especie de ser humano: el homo floresiensis.Se estima que el hobbit vivió en la isla indonesa de Fl
Uno de los directores de culto de Cinemanet es Guillermo del toro, citaremos Hellboy solamente para darles una idea de su talento.
Siempre es noticia porque o anda tras los pasos de Frankenstin, o tras Hellboy 2, o algún loco proyecto.
Parece que ahora es muy seria su postulación a darle vida a la historia o precuela [...]
John D. Rateliff, author of The History of the Hobbit, explains to John J. Miller that The Hobbit represents the first time that Tolkien had written a whole book-length work of fiction; his earlier pieces were much shorter than The Hobbit. So it was a sort of ambitious undertaking for him. He got ideas, and then as the story went along, he would reject them. Originally, Bilbo would kill the dragon
These days the books The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are put to the test. We are talking about the translations into the Dutch language, In de ban van de Ring and de Hobbit. They have a chance to be choisen as the best Foreign book and the best children book. Let us have a look at these chances and some important polls in the past.
Duncan Graham, a writer based in Surabaya, gives his take on the book The Discovery of the Hobbit by Mike Morwood and Penny van Oosterzee. Another review of the book has been posted on SEAArch...
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Well the Hobbit has a director and it is Peter Jackson. I know this has been going on for a while but I could not see anyone else directing this movie. So looks like the WETA and New Zealand will have something else to be excited about.
Peter Jackson llegó a un acuerdo con las productoras para llevar a cabo al hobbit, la precuela del Señor de los anillos!.
Ampliaremos…por las dudas, vayan leyendo el libro!
This is the news we were all waiting for and has finally been officially announced. The Hobbit movie will be made. Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema join with MGM to produce it. The two Hobbit films are scheduled to be shot simultaneously, with pre-production beginning as soon as possible. Principal photography is tentatively set for a 2009 start, with the intention of The Hobbit release slated fo
