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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV Series Costs Nearly Half a Billion Dollars for Its First Season Alone
It turns out Middle-earth doesn’t come cheap. Amazon Studios is spending an astonishing $US465 ($601) million to make its Lord of the Rings prequel show… specifically, the show’s first season. That’s over $US150 ($194) million more than Peter Jackson’s three Lord of the Rings movies cost to make. That’s more than the gross domestic product…
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Sean Astin’s Cool With You Shipping Sam and Frodo, Two Bros Who Should Have Kissed
Though Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films didn’t explicitly pair Frodo and Sam together romantically, the sizable amount of subtext presented on the screen naturally fed into the fandom’s already-established interest in the idea of shipping the two characters. All it takes is a cursory search through the fanfic site of your choice to see…
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The Stars of Lord of the Rings Want to Make J.R.R. Tolkien’s Home Into a Museum
Thanks to Peter Jackson, fans of J.R.R. Tolkien can travel to New Zealand to visit sets and locations from The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films. But if one of those fans really wanted to learn about Tolkien himself, and see the actual location where Middle-earth was created, they can’t. But that might be…
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Who Is the Lord of the Rings, Exactly?
It’s been a little while so it’s possible my memory isn’t as fresh on the subject of Middle-earth as it once was. But a thought occurred to me this weekend that I cannot shake: Did J.R.R. Tolkien name the Lord of the Rings trilogy after the bad guy?