Ten years ago this week The Fellowship of the Ring was released. Peter Jackson's first Tolkien adaption silenced a great many naysayers who said J.R.R. Tolkien's novels could never be properly translated to film. It also fostered a mainstream interest in fantasy movies that continues a decade later. The development of a film based on…
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At this point what more is there to say about yet another dwarf reveal from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? (Other than, perhaps, "uh, where's Thorin?") Here is the latest image dispatch from Peter Jackson's version of Middle-Earth, featuring Ken Stott as Balin (on the left) and Graham McTavish as Dwalin. These two guys are…
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File this under 'expected:' Cate Blanchett, who played the elf Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings and provided the opening narration for The Fellowship of the Ring, has joined the cast of The Hobbit. She'll reprise the role of Galadriel in at least one of the two Hobbit films, though we don't know which,…
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Briefly: Here's your latest small update on The Hobbit. The actor Sylvester McCoy (aka the seventh Doctor Who) has been rumored to be a candidate for a big role in The Hobbit, with some pegging him as a possible Bilbo Baggins. That always seemed a bit absurd, for while he looks the part, he's rather…
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