The lack of diversity in the latest film is a backwards step. Adaptations of Tolkien’s epic must reflect our times
There is trouble in Middle-earth – again. So far, all of the actors announced for the…
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Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need ⊕⊕
Andy Serkis has picked the perfect actor for the next iteration of the Lord of the Rings franchise. But if Tolkien didn’t linger over this subplot, should we?
Let’s be honest: Anya Taylor-Joy would m…
3 months ago
‘A full-circle moment’: why Stephen Colbert is an enticing fit for Lord of the Rings ⊕⊕
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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…
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, …
4 months ago
Talk show host Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film ⊕
Colbert, who is a Tolkien superfan, will adapt an early section of the first Lord of the Rings novel.
5 months ago
The Hunt for Gollum looks like a step too far for the endless Lord of the Rings franchise ⊖
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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…
10 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…
11 months ago
‘Unimaginably rare’ first edition of The Hobbit sells at auction for £43,000 ○
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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…
13 months ago
Haunted couture: dressing like a ghost has captured the zeitgeist ○
From Dior and Chloé to Australia’s runways, a spectre is haunting fashion. But is it a sign of resignation or rebellion?
“The look of the summer is going to be kind of haunted,” wrote fashion editor R…
Football Daily | Cristiano Ronaldo is still very much here. But what happens next? ○
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