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JRR Tolkien
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‘A full-circle moment’: why Stephen Colbert is an enticing fit for Lord of the Rings ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The Late Show host is co-writing a new JRR Tolkien adaptation to be produced by Peter Jackson
Typically, when a famous comedian ventures into writing, it’s in service of a book of humorous essays or a…
76 days ago
Will Stephen Colbert’s Lord of the Rings film be Tom Bombadil’s time to shine? ⊕
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The US talkshow host’s script will focus on chapters three to eight of Tolkien’s first volume – a section Hollywood originally thought disposable but is now circling back to monetise
As I write this, …
77 days ago
Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film after end of the Late Show ⊕
Comedian and avid Tolkien fan to write the Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, a new Peter Jackson-produced film based on unadapted chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring
Stephen Colbert has lined …
3 months ago
Ben Markovits: ‘I used to think any book concerned with people falling in love can’t be very good’ ⊕⊕
The British-American author on arguing about Jane Austen, the joys of Jerome K Jerome, and revising his opinion of Philip Roth
My earliest reading memory
I used to read Donald Sobol’s Encyclopedia Br…
The Hunt for Gollum looks like a step too far for the endless Lord of the Rings franchise ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
As the film-makers behind the seemingly neverending river of Tolkien adaptations seek to wring every last drop of story from Middle-earth, it risks running the whole thing into the ground
Now in his 8…
7 months ago
Now Lord of the Rings is 'racist'! Woke university says JRR Tolkien demonises 'people of colour' ⊖
A history module uses a text that says orcs and other dark-skinned characters in the best-selling trilogy are the victims of 'ethnic chauvinism'.
8 months ago
Nick Harkaway: ‘I loathed Charles Dickens – it nearly turned me off reading for ever’ ○
The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired him
My earliest reading memory
I read The Lord of the Rings b…
10 months ago
‘Unimaginably rare’ first edition of The Hobbit sells at auction for £43,000 ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Only a few hundred from the original 1,500 copy print run of Tolkien’s masterpiece are thought to still exist
A rare first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit that was found during a house clearance h…
Copy of The Hobbit sells for massive £43,000 after being found in Bristol house clear out ○
The copy of JRR Tolkien's 1937 book was found on a bookcase at a home in Bristol during a routine house clearance.