Sir Ian McKellan starred in The Lord of the Rings franchise as the iconic Gandalf, and he made the wizard one of the series' ...

A truly engaging story is unbelievably hard to come by. I love to read, but my expectations for a good book are so demanding that I rarely find myself truly enamored with a story. These criteria give ...

Bilbo Baggins lost his bachelor status in what may be The Hobbit's strangest movie yet, giving Tauriel and KiIi's romance a ...

And through the descriptions of life in Hobbiton and Bywater runs his own bemused love of the English and his scorn for the ugliness of the industrial surroundings in which they live. But Tolkien ...

In Tolkien lore, March 25 is the date of Sauron ... and is just south of the well-known Hobbiton, home of the Baggins’. Fans of LotR may also recognize the name Bywater as the location of ...

Does living in a community, and a rugby community at that, work? Can it help overcome hardship and all the negative experiences that one encounters in their daily routine? According to four of those ...

What's more, a surprisingly large hub world spanning from Hobbiton to Erebor offers more than 100 additional ... The only glaring issue is that the game only tells two-thirds of J.R.R. Tolkien's ...

LEGO’s latest The Lord of the Rings set takes us on a truly glorious journey into darkness, one that, sometimes literally, and sometimes metaphorically, glows, burns, seeps, cuts, surprises ...

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is perhaps the most influential fantasy narrative of the past century. But few things ...

Located roughly 110 miles southeast of Auckland on a working sheep farm, the Hobbiton Movie Set is a must for fans of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" movies. It's the country's only ...