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First gameplay from The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum revealed

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Daedalic Entertainment has treated us pesky gamers with a brief glimpse of the gameplay for the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Being Gollum in Middle-Earth is not easy and there’s always someone that poses a threat.  Check out some of what Gollum has to go through in the teaser below… After being a […]

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings enlists director Wayne Che Yip

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Amazon Studios has announced that British-Chinese director Wayne Che Yip has joined the directing team for the upcoming The Lord of the Rings TV series, as well as serving as co-executive producer. Yip has previously directed episodes of The Wheel of Time, Hunters, Preacher, Channel 4’s Utopia and Doctor Who, and will be helming four episodes […]

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings loses Tom Budge from its cast

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Amazon’s upcoming The Lord of the Rings series is out one actor from its ensemble cast. Tom Budge announce through his Instagram account that he has left the series as Amazon wants to “go in another direction” with his character. “It is with great sadness that I am writing to tell you I have departed Amazon’s […]

Viggo Mortensen explains why he is interested in watching Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series

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Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV series is currently in development in West Auckland, New Zealand, and now, one of the stars of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy has offered his thoughts on the upcoming series. In an interview with GQ, Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn in all three The Lords of the Rings film instalments, shared his […]

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series synopsis revealed

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For a long time details have been few on Amazon’s upcoming The Lord of the Rings series. About the only thing known of the series is it will take place during the Second Age of Middle-earth, which is thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved stories The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Now, however, we have some […]

Viggo Mortensen discusses a deleted flashback scene from The Lord of the Rings featuring Aragorn and Arwen

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It may be coming on for twenty year since the release of the first instalment, but it seems the cast of The Lord of the Rings still can’t take part in an interview with the subject of Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy trilogy cropping up. Speaking to NME to promote the release of his directorial debut […]

The Hobbit actor says studio interference caused problems for the trilogy and Peter Jackson’s workflow

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With The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies receiving 4K remastered box sets this month, one of the actors from the franchise has opened up about the development on the prequel trilogy. In an interview on Kiwi Talkz, Jed Brophy, who played the Dwarf Nori in The Hobbit trilogy as well as portraying the Nazgul and a variety of […]

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series adds 20 to its cast

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Amazon Studios has announced that it is filling out Middle-earth with the addition of twenty new cast members to its upcoming Amazon Original series based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings. The new cast members include Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Lenny […]

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies getting 4K release this December

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Middle-earth is about to be seen in a whole new way. Peter Jackson’s groundbreaking The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy will be released on 4K Ultra HD for the first time ever this December. Sean Astin, who played hobbit Samwise Gamgee in Lord of the Rings, made the announcement and said Jackson has been personally remastering […]