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November 2nd, 2009, 12:02 am by Jayson Peters
Every year the Honors program at Phoenix College holds a massive book sale that helps students pay for books and tuition. This year the 17th annual Padriac Hill Memorial Scholarship Fund Book Sale will be 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 10 in Sophomore Square at Phoenix College, 1202 W. Thomas Rd. (MAP)
The fund is named for Padriac Meriadoc Hill, a student in the Classical Studies and Honors programs at PC who was shot and killed during an attempted robbery of the movie theater where he worked in 1993. His first name is the Gaelic spelling for “Patrick” and his middle name, “Meriadoc,” comes from a Hobbit character in The Lord of the Rings, a book his father loved.
I attended PC as part of the Classical Studies program, and the sale was always a lot of hard work but was also a lot of fun. If you can get out that way, please support this program and you’ll find some great deals on books! And if you can’t make it but would like to contribute, call the Honors office at (602) 285-7305 to arrange for a student to pick up your book donations.
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October 30th, 2009, 5:17 pm by Jayson Peters
 New Line Cinema Actor John Rhys-Davies recently told Empire Online that he will not be joining the cast of The Hobbit to play the father of his character from The Lord of the Rings.
“Really I am not sure my face can take that sort of punishment any more,” he said in reference to the prosthetic makeup that turned him into Gimli son of Gloin — and gave him a severe allergic reaction that prompted him to ceremonially burn the mask after production wrapped. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 8th, 2009, 2:16 pm by Jayson Peters
The blessings of the Valar are with us!
The heirs of J.R.R. Tolkien and the movie studio that produced the epic Lord of the Rings film trilogy have settled a lawsuit over profits that threatened to derail an adapation of The Hobbit.
 J.R.R. Tolkien The out-of-court resolution, announced Tuesday and reported by The Associated Press, will not only clear the way for the much-beloved and long-expected prequel, but will also benefit charitable causes worldwide. That’s because The Tolkien Trust, a British charity that manages Tolkien’s estate, is one of the main beneficiaries of the settlement.
Along with publisher HarperCollins, it sued New Line Cinema last year for profits from the 2001-03 movies, pledging to do whatever necessary to protects its rights, up to and including the revocation of the studio’s licensing rights.
Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) is directing the two-part adaptation of The Hobbit, in which Bilbo Baggins goes on a quest to the Lonely Mountain with the wizard Gandalf the Grey and 13 dwarves, and along the way discovers the lost One Ring of Power that rises to such prominence in The Lord of the Rings.
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July 16th, 2009, 5:05 pm by Jayson Peters
 There and Back Again? More like, Here We Go Again.
While pre-production forges ahead on the Guillermo Del Toro-directed adaptation of The Hobbit, the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien is focused on an October court date that could derail the two-part prequel to the hugely successful Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. His heirs want $220 million they say is due to them under a decades-old agreement for 7.5% of movie receipts.
Tolkien estate attorney Bonnie Eskenazi had this to say to Bloomberg: “Should this case go all the way through trial, we are confident that New Line will lose its right to release The Hobbit.”
This could result in the kind of media brinksmanship not seen since, oh, earlier this year.
(Via Wired)
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July 15th, 2009, 1:00 am by Jayson Peters
Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree … — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
 New Line Cinema NPR’s Morning Edition recently featured a California software company that’s working with the U.S. government to track terrorist activity through phone calls and ATM activity. The Silicon Valley firm, called Palantir Technologies, borrows its name from the palantíri, the seeing-stones used to communicate across long distances in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Each palantir resembled the crystal balls so common in popular images of fantasy and wizardry.
The danger of the palantíri, however, was that they worked both ways.
Stare too long into the abyss, and it stares into you … and what is created as a tool for good ends up being used for great evil.
Cliches aside, I wonder if the government has considered enlisting clairvoyants in the hunt for violent extremists? I mean, law-enforcement agencies have been known to do so when tracking down kidnappers and serial killers …
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May 4th, 2009, 4:33 am by Chris "KeL" Adams
On Sunday, the internet witnessed the release of ‘The Hunt for Gollum.’ It’s not Peter Jackson or even Guillermo del Toro, but if you’re jonesing for another trip to Middle Earth, it’ll do nicely. The short movie follows events briefly mentioned in ‘Fellowship of the Ring.’ We see how the ranger Strider tracked and captured Gollum after his escape from the dungeons of Mordor.
The 40-minute film is the work of a group of fan filmmakers who have spent the past two years working on it. They are unaffiliated with the Tolkien estate and have released the movie completely free. All things considered, it’s very impressive and quite well done. It’s certainly worth watching, if only to see what a dedicated group of fans can do. It makes you wonder how Hollywood gets it wrong so often.
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September 21st, 2008, 9:00 am by Jayson Peters
Sept. 21, 1937, saw the first publication of The Hobbit, which launched millions of readers into the fantastical world of J.R.R. Tolkien — a world of hobbits and wizards and dragons and magic rings — and led to the epic novel The Lord of the Rings.
Now that a live-action film adaptation of The Hobbit is finally in the works, from Peter Jackson who adapted LOTR and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, what better time to curl up again with this classic and revisit the land of Middle-earth?
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J.R.R. Tolkien in 1967, 30 years after 'The Hobbit' was published Roads go ever ever on,
- Over rock and under tree,
- By caves where never sun has shone,
- By streams that never find the sea;
- Over snow by winter sown,
- And through the merry flowers of June,
- Over grass and over stone,
- And under mountains of the moon.
- Roads go ever ever on
- Under cloud and under star,
- Yet feet that wandering have gone
- Turn at last to home afar.
- Eyes that fire and sword have seen
- And horror in the halls of stone
- Look at last on meadows green
- And trees and hills they long have known.
Thank you for those roads, Professor Tolkien — and for where they have taken us!
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May 27th, 2008, 7:58 pm by Scott Kirchhofer
GUILLERMO DEL TORO (LEFT) AND PETER JACKSON (RIGHT) ANSWER FANS’ QUESTIONS.
The live Internet chat “An Unexpected Party” between The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro, producer Peter Jackson and thousands of excited fans lasted only one hour but offered a wealth of information about the upcoming film(s).
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May 16th, 2008, 6:55 pm by Scott Kirchhofer
IMAGE COURTESY OF WETA
It’s called “An Unexpected Party” and we’re all invited. The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro and producer Peter Jackson have asked fans to participate in a Q&A session via live chat on the Internet to discuss the upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel.
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February 15th, 2008, 10:38 pm by Jayson Peters
First, the latest news:
- There’s trouble in Middle-earth - again! The Tolkien estate is suing New Line Cinema for profits from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This may cause yet another delay in the long-awaited production of The Hobbit.
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