Deadline is reporting that James Strong (Broadchurch, Downton Abbey) has signed on to direct the J.R.R. Tolkien biopic Middle Earth, which will explore the tumultuous events that inspired the classic fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Middle Earth has been scripted by Angus Fletcher and “follows Tolkien’s early life and love […]
Colm Meaney joins the cast of Tolkien
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Colm Meaney has joined the cast of the upcoming J.R.R. Tolkien biopic, Tolkien. He joins X-Men: Apocalypse’s Nicholas Hoult and To The Bones‘ Lily Collins in the film with, Dome Karukoski directing from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. Per Deadline, Meaney will portray Father Francis, one of Tolkien’s school teachers. Tolkien will […]
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beren and Lúthien set for publication in 2017
Publisher HarperCollins has announced that it is to publish J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth love story Beren and Lúthien in May 2017, some 100 years after Tolkien first penned the tale, and on the tenth anniversary of the most recent Middle-earth book, The Children of Húrin. The book, which will be edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations […]
New J.R.R. Tolkien Middle-earth tale The Story of Kullervo to be published this August
The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien has announced that the unreleased Middle-earth tale The Story of Kullervo is set for publication this August. Check out the cover art, followed by the official description: Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. ‘Hapless Kullervo’, as Tolkien called him, is […]
