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The Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark – The Lost Version (2001)
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Special Relativity and Middle-Earth
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Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)
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Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy
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New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
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Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
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The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
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Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years
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The true villain of Disney’s Frozen (2019)
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Sir Ian McKellen's Lord of the Rings Production Blogs
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Fancy Believing in the Goblin King (2017)
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Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney
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Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?
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Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (2015)
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A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age
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JRR Tolkien book Beren and Lúthien published after 100 years
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The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (1956)
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Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
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What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games
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Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)
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Terry Prachett: Why Gandalf Never Married (1985)
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Antidepressants or Tolkien
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Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin
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