British Man Builds ‘Hobbit House’ in His Backyard to Fulfill Childhood Dream
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The Epoch Times ^
| August 8, 2021 | SWNS
An IKEA employee from Scotland has fulfilled his childhood dream of building a “Hobbit House” in his back garden. Ali
Hughson, 47, has been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien since he was a teenager and loved the idea of having a Hobbit-themed workshop. Ali spent six months and 2,000 pounds (approx. US$2,800) building the 2-meter-tall shed, which even features the iconic round green door made famous in the Peter Jackson films. “When I was around 13 I read ‘The Hobbit’, and then watched ‘The Lord of the Rings’ movies when they got released,” Ali said. “I’ve been a fan of...
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A Democrat Legacy: A Hobbit House For Humanity
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MOTUS A.D. ^
| 5-4-21 | MOTUS
Well looky here, MSM finally noticed that prices might be inching up a tad: Don’t worry though: it’s just transitory.Quick: name the last time this country experienced hyper-inflation. *hint* I’m guessing the ‘Bidens-in-a Hobbit-house’ effect is the result of either an amateur or an auteur photographer. Either
way it’s a pretty clever illustration: the incredible shrinking Carters symbolizing the incredible shrinking dollar that comes with hyper-inflation. Doesn’t appear to be that transitory from my perspective though.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
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VIDEO: Is Chuck Todd a Hobbit?
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| March 18, 2019 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEO The question has to be asked, especially after watching Chuck Todd interview Beto O'Rourke in Iowa for "Meet The Press." Normally Todd interviews guests while sitting behind a desk. However,
during his O'Rourke interview, Todd conducted the interview on his feet raising questions as to whether he is only as tall as a Hobbit.
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Changes in rat size reveal habitat of 'Hobbit' hominin
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EurekAlert! ^
| March 13, 2019 | Emory Health Sciences
Murids, as the rat family is known, are more taxonomically diverse than any other mammal group and are found in nearly every part of the world... The study was based on remains recovered from the limestone cave known as Liang Bua, where partial skeletons of H. floresiensis have been found, along with
stone tools and the remains of animals -- most of them rats. In fact, out of the 275,000 animal bones identified in the cave so far, 80 percent of them are from rodents... The study encompassed about 10,000 of the Liang Bua rat bones. The remains spanned five...
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No evidence of 'hobbit' ancestry in genomes of Flores Island pygmies
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The University of California Santa Cruz ^
| August 2, 2018 | Tim Stephens
Pygmy population near cave where Homo floresiensis fossils were found appears to have evolved short stature independently from the mysterious ancient hominins A fossil skeleton found in a cave on Flores Island, Indonesia, in 2004 turned out to be a previously unknown, very small species of human. Nicknamed
the "hobbit" (officially Homo floresiensis), it remains a mysterious species with an unknown relationship to modern humans. Intriguingly, the current inhabitants of Flores include a pygmy population living in a village near the Liang Bua cave where the fossils were found. An international team of scientists has now sequenced and analyzed the...
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Julia Ecklar's "Walk Through the Nightside" for Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit
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And if you loved Martin Freeman playing Bilbo, how about his Watson? Jane Oliver's "I Believe in You" for Sherlock's John Watson.
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Hobbit director Peter Jackson brings WWI back to life in incredible colour photos and new footage
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The Sun ^
| January 22, 2018 | Neal Baker
LORD of the Rings director Sir Peter Jackson is going from Middle Earth to the Western Front — transforming grainy footage of World War I into stunning 3D colour. The
documentary announced on Monday is among dozens of artworks commissioned to commemorate 100 years since the end of the 1914-18 war. The New Zealander has restored film from the Imperial War Museum using cutting-edge digital technology and hand colouring. He paired it with archive audio recollections from veterans of the bloody conflict. Sir Peter said the aim is to close the 100-year time gap and show "what it was like...
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New Fossils Hint 'Hobbit' Humans Are Older Than Thought
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National Geographic ^
| June 8, 2016 | Adam Hoffman
For the past decade, a fossil human relative about the size of a toddler has loomed large in the story of our evolutionary history. This
mysterious creature—found on the Indonesian island of Flores—has sparked a heated debate about its origins, including questions over its classification as a unique species. But now, a scattering of teeth and bone may at last unlock the mystery of the “hobbits,” also known as Homo floresiensis. The 700,000-year-old human remains are the first found outside Liang Bua cave, the site on Flores that yielded the original hobbit fossils. The much older samples show intriguing similarities...
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New Fossils Strengthen Case for ‘Hobbit’ Species
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The New York Times ^
| 08 June 2016 | Carl Zimmer
Scientists digging in the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores years ago found a tiny humanlike skull, then a pelvis, jaw and other bones, all between 60,000 and 100,000 years old. The
fossils, the scientists concluded, belonged to individuals who stood just three feet tall — an unknown species, related to modern humans, that they called Homo floresiensis or, more casually, the hobbits. On Wednesday, researchers reported that they had discovered still older remains on the island, including teeth, a piece of a jaw and 149 stone tools dating back 700,000 years. The finding suggests that the...
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Blu-ray review: ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ (Extended Edition) has more to love
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Celebrity Cafe ^
| 12.30.2015
Back on Nov. 17, Warner Bros. released the long-awaited, extended edition of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. The film adds just 20 extra minutes, but packs a lot of emotion into those minutes. By
now, most of us have seen the Hobbit movies and it can probably be agreed that Peter Jackson created amazing pieces of art. However, most of us wished for more in-depth scenes or more face time for a favorite character. With the extended edition, we get both, plus two full discs of bonus features. A few scenes were extended with just a couple...
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Magic Hobbit Ring Suspension: Boy Wanted to Make Classmate 'Disappear'
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Newsmax ^
| February 2, 2015
A 9-year-old Texas boy was suspended from school after pretending to have the magic Hobbit ring from "The Lord of the Rings" and its prequel, telling a schoolmate that he would make him "disappear." Aiden
Steward had recently watched “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” with his family when he took his imagination to school in Kermit, Texas, his father, Jason Steward, told the New York Daily News. When he heard that his son was suspended for making terroristic threats — saying he’d make someone disappear — Steward told the Daily News it was "unbelievable."
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Is the the best soundtrack by Coldplay, Radiohead... or a hobbit?
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Daily Mail UK ^
With film awards season here, a string of new soundtrack albums are out now. Some
are packed with old hits, others with dramatic scores for the big screen...
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Box Office: 'Hobbit: Five Armies' Crushes 'Museum,' 'Annie' With $90.6M
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Hollywood reporter ^
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies opened to a massive $90.6 million in North America, while Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Annie both suffered soft starts as the crucial year-end holidays got underway. Overseas,
the final Hobbit entry also dominated, grossing another $105.5 million for a 12-day international total of $265 million and early world haul of $355.6 million. Five Armies soared in its five-day domestic debut after earning an A- CinemaScore, including a weekend tally of $56.2 million. Box-office comparisons to the previous Hobbit films aren't exactly parallel as the first...
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vanity - Post your review of "The Hobbit"
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Since the final Hobbit opens up tomorrow, please post your review. Tell
us why, not just "it was good" or "it was bad". I will post my review early Saturday morning. Please, if you are not interested in discussing this movie, do not ruin it for any one with "I hate the CGI" or "Peter Jackson is a Marxist" or "Frodo and Samwise were a Hollywood homosexual conspiracy" - and no spoilers. From analyzing the themes the Shore use in the soundtrack, it appears that it will probably closer to the book, with a bit of sorrow at the end.
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‘The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies’ To End Trilogy On A High Note?..
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Inquistr ^
It’s less than a week until The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies hits the theaters, putting an end to the six-part Middle Earth saga that began with The Lord Of The Rings trilogy in 2001, and continued with The Hobbit trilogy in 2012. So
does the series do a good job of tying up all the loose ends in the franchise? Early reviews seem to indicate the third Hobbit film to be not only the best in the trilogy, but on par with that of the original trilogy.
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Hobbit Author J.R.R. Tolkien's Anti-Socialist, Pro-Liberty Message
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CNS ^
| December 4, 2014 | Barbara Hollingsworth
J.R.R. Tolkien, the British author best known for The Hobbit and his epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, was an astute critic of socialism and utopianism and a passionate defender of liberty, says Jay Richards, co-author of The Hobbit Party, which he calls “a study of the political and economic implications
of Tolkien’s thought.” “Certainly anyone that’s seen The Lord of the Rings, for instance, at the movies knows that he was deeply concerned about the dangers and the temptations of absolute power. "The symbol of the one ring, of course. It’s not just a symbol of the sort...
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies review - exactly what it promised to be (3-stars)
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The Guardian (UK) ^
| Tuesday 2 December 2014 03.02 EST
hortly after the climactic battle scene of this final instalment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit series gets underway, an outsize troll-like monstrosity with a pointed stone headpiece runs full tilt into a fortress wall, making a breach through which a bunch of orcs and other malevolent nasties can pour through. The
troll, or whatever it is, lies full length on the ground, stunned; entirely disregarded as its compadres swarm past. Well, I can sympathise entirely; I reeled out of the cinema in bit of a daze myself after this extended dose of Jackson’s patented ye olde Middle Earth cranium-smashing.
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Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye - closing song on The Hobbit 3
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Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye - closing song on The Hobbit http://m.youtube.com
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Blu-ray Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – The Extended Edition (2013)
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Flickering Myth ^
| November 5, 2014 by Gary Collinson
snip "Filmgoers and shire admirers have become as used to Peter Jackson and his J.R.R. Tolkien adaptations over the years as they have the obligatory “extended cuts” of every already long film. The
Hobbit films have been no different and now comes The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – The Extended Edition. The extended cut, like other Jackson extended cuts, is not a light one. It’s packed with 25 minutes of new footage. I debate to simply reveal said extended and new scenes, but one of the true pleasures of this extended cut is to go in cold and discover...
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Main Trailer
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Main Trailer
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