Hobbits

Tobey Maguire Swapping Spiderman For Bilbo?

Published on: 18th January, 2010

The Sun newspaper, a major tabloid here in the UK is today running a story that claims Tobey Maguire of Spiderman fame is to play the Bilbo Baggins role in The Hobbit.
The rumours have been doing the rounds for about a month but by and large were written off because of the upcoming fourth Spiderman [...]

The Hobbit Musical?

Published on: 15th April, 2009

Kevin Wallace, the Director of the much troubled Lord of the Rings stage show hopes to follow up by bringing The Hobbit to the stage.  “The stage rights to The Hobbit are controlled by the [Saul] Zaentz company, my co-producers. I’d certainly like to raise the question. A first-class production of The Hobbit would be [...]

Most Expensive Tolkien Book Of All Time

Published on: 17th December, 2008

GTC Roadshow AG announces the acquisition of the most expensive Tolkien book ever sold; a signed first edition of “The Lord of the Rings” dedicated to the “Queen of the Hobbits”, for 104.000 USD.
A further 5 lots were acquired in the same auction: the first translation of The Hobbit dedicated to E. Griffiths, a signed [...]

What’s in a Hobbit name?

Published on: 17th November, 2007

Popo Peatfingers of Brockenborings happens to be my hobbit name. You can find out what your hobbit name is at http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/
You just enter your name in the form and out it comes all hobbitized.
The site also has an elven version. Apparantely mine is Huor Elendil which I confess I prefer to my Hobbit name:-)
How do [...]