2 w. ago Game of Thrones legend Sean Bean turns people's hero as he leads fight against council

Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones star Sean Bean has been lauded as a local hero as he spearheads a campaign to protect greenbelt land from a local council's development plans

Sport

2 w. ago 15 things you definitely need to know about Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien

He’s the man who gave us hobbits, Gandalf and Mordor – but did you realise he lived in Birmingham? These facts will soon have you Tolkien our language

Culture

2 w. ago Nick Harkaway: ‘I loathed Charles Dickens – it nearly turned me off reading for ever’

The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired himMy earliest reading memory I read The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien at seven, in my bedroom in the deep west of Cornwall. I secretly believed that Rivendell was based on that house, which it clearly wasn’t.My favourite book growing up Impossible. I’m inconstant, so it was whatever I was reading at the time. Let’s say Finn Family Moomintroll, which is the most perfect of Tove Jansson’s lovely (and occasionally frankly terrifying) Moomin books. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the RingsHow does one measure success? For Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the historians behind the hit podcast The Rest Is History, it could be the number of unexpected and overly familiar conversations with strangers. On a holiday high up in the mountains of Bulgaria, Holland was wandering around a secluded monastery when someone called out, “Love the podcast!”Sandbrook, meanwhile, is used to getting weird looks from fans who find it hard to compute that the man in front of them is one half of the soundtrack to their dog walks and commutes. “The weirdest thing that people say – which I’ve heard more than once – is, ‘My wife and I listen to you in bed every night,’” he says, looking mildly appalled. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Sean Astin, who starred in 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Rudy,' is elected as SAG

The union that represents tens of thousands of actors and other entertainer and media professionals has elected Sean Astin as its new president

Politics

4 w. ago Ian McKellen forced to cancel film premiere appearance after doctors' warning

The Lord of the Rings star was set to attend the premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s new film The Christophers

Events

4 w. ago 'Enchanting' fairytale UK forest is like 'stepping into Lord of the Rings'

As soon as I arrived, I felt like I was walking through an ancient "enchanted" forest

Politics