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<description>The latest news headlines about the Hobbit movies being developed by Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro.</description>
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<title>Understanding Middle-earth: Essays on Tolkien's Middle-earth</title>
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<description>Tolkien scholar Michael Martinez opens up Middle-earth in ways you have never seen, exploring every concept of Tolkien's creation from a historical and anthropological point of view.</description>
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<description>Discussipn forum for fans of Tolkien-based movies, including the upcoming two Hobbit films.</description>
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<title>L.O.T.R.</title>
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<description>Jeffrey Cable's entertaining essays about The Lord of the Rings, Elves, Hobbits, Dragons, and more find a new home.</description>
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<title>Fans discuss John Noble in 'Fringe'</title>
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<description>Fans of John Noble and J.J. Abrams discuss the hot new show 'Fringe' at SF-Fandom.</description>
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<description>Fan site dedicated to the new J.J. Abrams show 'Fringe'.  John Noble ('Denethor' in Lord of the Rings) co-stars as a mad scientist in the show.</description>
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<title>Fringe Fan Site</title>
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<description>Another fan site devoted to the 'Fringe' television show in which LoTR film actor John Noble portrays an unstable scientist helping the U.S. government.</description>
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<title>RIP Pauline Baynes: 1922 - 2008</title>
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<description>Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien note the passing of famed illustrator Pauline Baynes, who was closely associated with the author's fantasy books.</description>
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<title>Discussion points on Dwarves and Hobbits from MERPCon IV</title>
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<description>Tolkien scholar Michael Martinez recaps panel with Tolkien scholar John Rateliff at 2008's MERPCon IV.</description>
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<description>Xenite.Org is home to the Web's oldest, most respected J.R.R. Tolkien Forum.  Founded in 1997, the Tolkien Forum at Xenite.Org has been the site of many in-depth discussions you won't find elsewhere.</description>
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<description>The Children of Hurin will probably be the last book published under the name of J.R.R. Tolkien by his son Christopher.  Xenite.Org gathers all the news available on this special page for the book due to be published April 17, 2007.  And after publication Xenite will place essays and analyses in this section.</description>
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<link>http://www.xenite.org/movies/lord-of-the-rings/</link>
<description>Read the latest news from sources around the world about J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth related events and topics.</description>
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<title>Tolkien Essays</title>
<link>http://www.merp.com/essays/</link>
<description>MERP offers one of the most extensive and information selection of Tolkien essays on the Web.</description>
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<title>The truth about Balrogs and the Balrog Wings debate</title>
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<description>Read the most thorough and comprehensive discussion of the always controversial Balrogs wings passage in The Lord of the Rings....</description>
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<title>Tolkien Studies</title>
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<description>Tolkien Studies on the Web offers insight into the best research resources for students and amateur Tolkien researchers across the World Wide Web.</description>
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<title>Tolkien Infinites</title>
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<description>Great resource with information about J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth, and various topics related to those subjects.</description>
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<title>The Lord of the Rings essay</title>
<link>http://www.xenite.org/tolkien/lord-of-the-rings/</link>
<description>A more traditional essay by author Michael Martinez on the mythology and meaning of The Lord of the Rings.</description>
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<title>The Fairy-Tales of J.R.R. Tolkien</title>
<link>http://www.xenite.org/tolkien/fairy-tales/</link>
<description>Summaries about three of J.R.R. Tolkien's lesser-known works: Roverandom, Smith of Wootton Major, and Farmer Giles of Ham.</description>
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<title>Balrog Wings - The Lord of the Rings and Balrog Wings, Oh My!</title>
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<description>What if Tolkien had foreseen the Balrog Wings Debate and decided to write the Moria chapter so as to answer fan questions and objections?  Maybe it would have looked something like this....</description>
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<title>The Tolkien Forum</title>
<link>http://www.sf-fandom.com/vb/authors/tolkien_inklings/</link>
<description>The Tolkien Forum at SF-Fandom, originally known as the White Council message board on Xenite.Org, is the Web's oldest community of J.R.R. Tolkien discussions.</description>
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<title>White Council Archive</title>
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<description>More than 15,000 archived messages from the original White Council Tolkien discussion forum on Xenite.Org include many in-depth conversations about the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, his influences, who he influenced, and more.</description>
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<link>http://www.xenite.org/jrrt.html</link>
<description>Guide to the extensive J.R.R. Tolkien-related essays and content on the Xenite.Org network.</description>
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<title>The World of Middle-earth</title>
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<description>Introduction to Tolkien's world of Middle-earth from SF-Worlds.</description>
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<description>Xenite.Org has created a custom search interface for fans of science fiction and fantasy.  We have favored the best resources on the Web for popular topics such as The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Stargate, and more.</description>
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<description>Search more than 100 constantly updated sources of entertainment news from around the Web with the Xenite.Org custom entertainment news search engine.</description>
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<description>Xenite.Org offers a selection of XML Channels you can include in your RSS feed readers and start pages.  Our own HTML interfaces to these channels introduce you to content throughout the Xenite network for Xena, Dark Angel/Jessica Alba, Spider-man, Andromeda, The Lord of the Rings, Search engine optimization, and more...</description>
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