Eleven years on and once again we find ourselves saying goodbye to Middle Earth.  How quickly it’s all over, too; from the excitement of the first announcement through to the commencement of production, the first trailer and then finally seeing the film, it’s all been like an elongated version of the […]

This December marks the release of Peter Jackson’s ‘Desolation of Smaug’, Or The Hobbit Part II. Admittedly this is set to be the film of the festive season, but given it is Christmas time, when frantic materialism often clouds the true meaning of the season, it seems only right we […]

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. The opening passages of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit introduced us to Bilbo Baggins, a middle-aged hobbit from the Shire. Most people watching Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey have probably seen the Lord of the Rings films, and so […]