One Stock to Rule Them All

By Shannon Zimmerman With apologies to Lord of the Rings scribe JRR Tolkien, it's money -- not rings -- that makes the investing world go 'round. Literally. These days, thanks to the market's precipitous sell-off and see-sawing bounce-back, ...
Wed, Jun 17 |  from Motley Fool

Back in December and January I did some work for the series that is going to be on the History Channel. Today they sent me the tentative air dates (and a nice basket of English muffins!): I am in the Thor, The Lord of the Rings and Beowulf episodes.
Sun, Jun 7 |  from Wormtalk and Slugspeak

Iconic coastal hotel may reopen

 UK But it's also where Tolkien stayed as a child and developed his early ideas on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit." A long list of famous people have also stayed at the hotel, including Tennyson, Charlie Chaplin, Chesterton and Dwight Eisenhower. ...
Fri, Jun 5 |  from BBC News

A Middle-Earth Photo Display has just sailed in!

We’ve put together an amazing photo display of all our ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Legendary Scale Bust Collection, which includes Sauron, Gandalf the Grey, Legolas, Uruk-Hai, Morgal Lord, Ringwaith, Aragorn, Cave Troll, Twilight Witch-King and our newest bust - a protector of Gondor! To...
Mon, May 18 |  from Sideshow Collectibles » The Lord of the Rings

Harry Potter fan works his 'spell'

 Malaysia A Harry Potter fan, the bespectacled boy has also read JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and the other fantasy novels in the series. When the Sekolah Kebangsaan St George 1 student and three friends decided to practise for the RHB New Straits Times ...
Sun, May 17 |  from New Straits Times

Hobbit movies to tell one long tale

 Australia Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins and Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins in a still from Lord of the Rings. The next Middle Earth saga, The Hobbit, will be one continuous movie split into two parts, its Oscar-winning writer Peter Jackson has confirmed. ...
Tue, May 12 |  from WA today

Books paint a picture

  Canada Writers can invent new worlds with detailed histories of different imaginary cultures, religions or species, such as JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Some authors re-use common 'every day' settings, along with different ...
Tue, May 12 |  from Pembroke Daily Observer

Celebrity relationships in Splitsville

 Kenya Today Google images of K-Ci reveal a vile and unfamiliar creature, not unlike that Lord of the Rings creature, Gollum. Jennifer should have seen this one coming; she is the cute girl next door while Jolie is the femme fatale. If they were all Nigerian ...
Fri, May 8 |  from Standard

Must-see movies: Ben-Hur 1959

It won 11 of these prestigious awards and shares the top spot with Titanic and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The movie is set at the beginning of the AD time period in the first century. This is also the time of Jesus Christ and there are ...
Tue, May 5 |  from Examiner.com