J.R.R. Tolkien News

Birmingham, Ala.

'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' has charged past the half-billion mark in only its second week in worldwide release. A production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), the film has taken in an astounding global total of $573.6 million and counting, it was announced today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.

“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” charged to the top of the global box office, and has now earned more than $350 million.

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,' the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The film hits theaters in the U.S. this Wednesday, December 17, and the reviews have started to come in!

The last part of Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT franchise hits theaters this week on December 17. Go behind the scenes with the director and cast to find out what they'll miss about Middle-earth when the series ends!

Sir Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Martin Freeman and director Peter Jackson talked about their upcoming film THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES, which concludes more than a decade of film-making for the cast and crew.

RUSKIN, Fla., Nov. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Author Bailey Ardisone released Sweet Redemption (Sweet Series #4), an urban fantasy novel about young adults, but loved by all ages. The modern story of elves with a dying kingdom continues where Sweet Requiem Book 3 left off, and is the conclusion to the series. Both teens and adults will be spellbound as they follow the main characters Nari, Mycah, Rydan, and Namine in the novel that leaves readers with a newfound sense of hope and duty, despite trying circumstances.

As the Studio has done in the past with such epic film series as “Harry Potter” and “The Dark Knight,” Warner Bros. Pictures, in conjunction with New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), is once again treating über-fans to a movie marathon

Symphony Silicon Valley and Chorale and Howard Shore, composer of the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings(LOTR) soundtrack, present the first American screening of the complete LOTR trilogy with a live American orchestra. Along with soloists to be named later, the Academy Award-winning films will be shown in High Definition on a giant 48' by 20' screen with 250 musicians on stage.

Below check out the final trailer for Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES. The film hits theaters in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on December 17th.

Muse Harbor Publishing's Science Fiction/Fantasy Award-Winning Author Leslie Ann Moore will speak to fans and promote the launch of her new novel, 'A Tangle of Fates,' Book One in the Vox Machina Trilogy, at L.A.'s Coffee Connection, 3838 South Centinella Boulevard today, October 25, 2014 from 6-9 p.m.

Below, check an all new behind-the-scenes video from THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG which shows how actor Benedict Cumberbatch brought the menacing dragon Smaug to life through the use of modern technology!

Los Angeles, CA

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today released Mayor for a New America - a behind-the-scenes look at the career of former Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, one of the longest-serving major-city mayors in United States history, and one of the most popular politicians in modern memory.

The creators of the international hit parody POTTED POTTER, Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, are indeed inseparable!

More than 160 children and adults from York and beyond will join forces to bring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit to the stage of DreamWrights' Youth and Family Theatre for 12 performances from Oct. 10 to 26. Audiences of all ages will be treated to a unique, fantasy-filled stage set, including a close-to-life-size dragon and climbable mountains created by local set designer Ray Olewiler.

Toto, we're not in Athens anymore.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade Publishing announced today that WHAT IF?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by xkcd creator Randall Munroe will debut at #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List for September 21.

In Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/An Eamon Dolan Book), just out today, Dr. Laurence Steinberg reveals fresh evidence - including his own groundbreaking research - that will change the way we parent, educate, and understand young people.

TNT has landed network television rights to the global blockbuster The Hunger Games and Divergent movie franchises in a sweeping deal with Lionsgate