Tag Archives: Tolkien

Peter Jackson’s Embellished Version of the Hobbit

December 26, 2012 · by · in Fantasy, Film · Leave a comment

“Every good story deserves to be embellished.” – Gandalf to Bilbo, An Unexpected Journey It’s pretty remarkable that the short children’s story The Hobbit has been stretched into three blockbuster movies, considering that the 1,000 page Lord of the Rings trilogy was also made into three blockbuster movies. Some (or most) have speculated it was […]

Top Ten Must-Read Fantasy Novels and Series (Part I)

November 11, 2011 · by · in Fantasy, Fiction, List · 1 Comment

Where would Shakespeare have been without fantasy — his spirits, his ghosts, and his proto-Orc Caliban, the misshapen villain of ‘The Tempest’? You can’t have Macbeth without the witches three. Today, the final Harry Potter film released on DVD, and with it, the entertainment industry has finally realized that fantasy sells just as fast as […]