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‘The Hobbit’ Released for First Time on Enhanced Ebook

Today is an exciting day for fans of The Hobbit worldwide as
HarperCollins Publishers releases ‘The Hobbit‘ as a downloadable
Enhanced Ebook! As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve themed the site to
celebrate! Exclusive to this Enhanced version of the eBook are new
high-resolution colour images of all of Tolkien’s illustrations for
the book, many of which are also included in their earlier
black-and-white versions, which can be revealed by a simple swipe of
the screen. A Foreword by Christopher Tolkien examines the writing of
the book, complete with illustrations including manuscript pages and
unused drawings. Finally, the Enhanced eBook includes some recently
discovered audio recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien reading excerpts from
The Hobbit, including the dwarves’ party song, the account of their
capture by the three trolls, and Bilbo Baggins’s terrifying encounter
with the hideous Gollum. You can download it now from a multitude of
locations, all summarized neatly on the official Facebook page.

Facebook Tolkien Ebook Store: http://tinyurl.com/86owc3r
iBookstore (iPad/iPhone): http://tinyurl.com/85ha5le
Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/82t73wv
NOOK: http://tinyurl.com/6nc649k

Ian McKellen Updates “Hobbit” Blog
Ian McKellen‘s new blog entry, titled “Moving On“, chronicles a
portion of his travels along New Zealand’s North Island where location
filming for The Hobbit is currently on.
http://tinyurl.com/7gvwauz

Collecting The Precious – Weta’s Christmas Special Part II
How awesome are the folks at Weta? They’ve not only given fans one
Christmas special already but are now giving us a second chance to
grab some really amazing items. There are a couple of deals Ringers
will want to make sure they take advantage of before they sail into
the west with this special. The Prancing Pony environment is back with
just a few pieces left for collectors around the world to get their
hands on, and Ringers if you’ve been eying those fantastic shields now
is your chance to get a great deal on them.
http://tinyurl.com/7upb2w5

TORn headed to Queenstown, NZ for ‘Hobbit’ reporting
With the pages falling off the calendar of time remaining in The
Hobbit filming schedule, TheOneRing.net is heading to Queenstown (for
starters) for more coverage. Writer and photographer Larry D. Curtis
(MrCere at TheOneRing.net) will be a one-man news production team for two
weeks, starting November 30 when he touches down at the Queenstown
airport. His journey will also take him to Wellington to mark the one
year countdown before the world premiere of the first Hobbit film, The
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, in 2012 along with visits to friends of
TORn (such as our own founder Tehanu) and can’t-miss public sites like
the Weta Cave.
http://tinyurl.com/7lspuu3

Elijah Wood talks LOTR 3D and bloopers and ‘Hobbit’
Elijah Wood has good reason to praise 3D, seeing as his old pal Peter
Jackson has taken the stereoscopic route in his The Hobbit films. On
the publicity circuit for Happy Feet Two, we asked Wood what he’d make
of the mooted 3D conversion for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
http://tinyurl.com/7c25nvx

Sir Peter’s great southern inspiration
Sir Peter spoke in between scenes where Sir Ian McKellan (SIC) as
Gandalf the Grey, Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and dwarves arrive
at the house of Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt). Tuesday was their third and
final day of shooting on a giant set, which took eight weeks to build
and was based on more than eight months of design – all for one scene
of about three minutes of screen time.
http://tinyurl.com/84yzntt

Badali Jewelry Presents: The ArkenstoneTM Necklace!
This Hobbit™ inspired pendant features the Arkenstone clutched in the
claw of Smaug, one of the last great dragons of Middle Earth™. Smaug,
in his desire for the treasures within, plundered the Lonely Mountain™
from the Dwarven Longbeards™ clan. Among the treasures he claimed was
the Arkenstone, the Heart of the Mountain™.
http://tinyurl.com/7ncks8e

Viggo Mortensen will not be in ‘The Hobbit’
Nobody can be shocked or even surprised but some fans were still
holding out hope that Viggo Moretensen‘s Aragorn character would
return in some form or fashion for the two part presentation of Peter
Jackson‘s The Hobbit.
http://tinyurl.com/6wnthfm

‘Rogue sightings’ of Hobbits
The Hobbit film crew – due in Marlborough next month – is flying under
the radar during filming in the Tasman region. The crew has been
filming on 80 hectares of privately-owned land at Canaan Downs, where
the Luminate Festival is held, and on surrounding Department of
Conservation land. David Hall, who lives on the Takaka Hill, said he
had not seen or heard much other than helicopters and more vehicles on
the road than usual. “It’s all sort of tucked away out of sight,” he
said.
http://tinyurl.com/7xqeqxn


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