The Fantasy Times

Here we go again. The Tolkien estate and his son and daughter are suing to halt production of “The Hobbit.” Apparently they are owed $220 million (their assertion) and want the money and the rights returned to the Tolkien Estate. I can’t imagine the the $3 billion dollars the other LOTR movies [...]

Despondent Tolkien fans forced to wait until at least 2010 for the release of the film version of The Hobbit will be cheered by the news that the author’s previously unpublished retelling of a Norse legend also adapted by Wagner to create the Ring cycle is to be published for the first time this May.
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