With The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power set to premiere this September, San Diego transformed into Middle-earth today as Hall H played host to Prime Video’s epic 90-minute panel for the hotly-anticipated fantasy series. Showrunners J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay, Executive Producer Lindsey Weber, and 21 members of the ensemble cast were on […]
20 Years of Tolkien: The Long Road to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and Beyond
Brad Cook looks back on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ahead of the release of the Middle-earth Ultimate Collector’s Edition 4K box set… With the first Lord of the Rings film celebrating its 20-year anniversary in 2021, I thought it would be nice to take a trip down memory lane. Many of […]
The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War gets a cinematic trailer
A darkness is descending upon Middle-earth as NetEase Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment prepare to launch The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War next week, and to whet our appetite a new cinematic trailer has been released for the mobile strategy game which is based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic book trilogy and the […]
The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War to bring Middle-earth to mobile in September
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetEase Games have announced that fans will soon be able to venture to Middle-earth and take part in the War of the Ring on their mobile devices with the release of The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War, a new strategy game based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic fantasy and […]
Middle-earth gets the anime movie treatment with New Line’s Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Tolkien fans can prepare themselves for another trip into Middle-earth history as Deadline reports New Line Cinema and Warner Animation is developing an anime feature film titled The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. The film will be directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) […]
The Lord of the Rings – Gollum gets a first teaser trailer
Daedalic Entertainment has released the first trailer for its upcoming action adventure game The Lord of the Rings – Gollum, which serves as a prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic fantasy trilogy and follows the former Sméagol on his journey to Mordor in search of Bilbo Baggins, the thief who stole his “precious” during The Hobbit. […]
The Hobbit trilogy actor on the film’s issues, and feeling like a glorified extra
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is widely considered one of the best trilogies ever made. It’s sense of scale was something completely new to the fantasy genre on film at the time. Peter Jackson took Tolkien’s masterworks, and brought the viewer down to the character’s level, where we could feel the urgency in Fellowship, […]
Sean Astin finds the prospect of a Lord of the Rings TV series “intriguing”
Just a few days ago, it was announced that a Lord of the Rings TV series is in early development, to be produced by Amazon Studios. With Game of Thrones ending next year, this could be just the thing to fill the fantasy-void sure to be left in many viewers hearts. Now, given the sprawling lore […]
The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien does not endorse Tolkien biopic starring Nicholas Hoult
This coming Friday sees the release of Tolkien, a biopic exploring the early years of legendary fantasy J.R.R. Tolkien and starring Nicholas Hoult in the title role as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings creator. Ahead of the movie’s arrival, the Tolkien Estate has released a statement to make it clear that the […]
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV series targeting 20-episode first season, must be canonical to Tolkien
Amazon Studios recently announced the behind-the-scenes creative team tasked with bringing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth to life for the hugely-ambitious The Lord of the Rings series, which included Middle and Old English literature professor Tom Shippey as “Tolkien Scholar”. During an interview with Deutsche Tolkien (via CinemaBlend), Shippey revealed that Amazon is targeting a 20-episode first […]
