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Shadow of the Past — Casting News Sean Astin is reportedly set to return as Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, the film wri..

Samwise Gamgee, born TA 2980 in Hobbiton, the Shire, is by any honest accounting the hero of The Lord of the Rings. Not the Ring-bearer: that is Fro..

The Kawarau River in the Queenstown region of New Zealand's South Island served as the Anduin River in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the ..

Returning Cast Series — Elijah Wood Elijah Wood is confirmed as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, releasing December 17, 2..

The Hunt for Gollum — December 17, 2027 At 86 years old, Sir Ian McKellen is returning to Middle-earth to play Gandalf one final time. At a fan event..

Returning Cast Series — Updated April 2026 The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum releases December 17, 2027. Warner Bros. confirmed the cast at ..

This Day in Middle-earth May 1, TA 3019 The Crowning of King Elessar On May 1 in the year 3019 of the Third Age, Aragorn II, son of Arathorn, heir..

Tom Bombadil — called Iarwain Ben-adar by the Elves, Forn by the Dwarves, and Orald by Men, all meaning the same thing: Eldest, Oldest and Fatherles..

The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies were filmed entirely in New Zealand, across more than 150 locations on both the North and South Islands. ..

Gollum — born Sméagol, of the Stoor hobbit-kin — possessed the One Ring for 478 years. He found it at the bottom of the Gladden Fields in TA 2463, m..

Breaking — Tolkien Reading Day, 25 March 2026 Peter Jackson and Stephen Colbert announced today that the next Lord of the Rings film after The Hunt f..

Gandalf — known to the Elves as Mithrandir, the Grey Pilgrim — was not a human wizard who had learned magic. He was Olórin, a Maia: an angelic spiri..