The first ever Gaelic translation of " The Hobbit " has been published by a university professor. Moray Watson, Professor of Gaelic and Translation at the University of Aberdeen and a lifelong Tolkien ...

The first Scottish Gaelic translation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy adventure The Hobbit has been completed by a professor at the ...

Two rings from ancient folklore and mythology seemingly served as inspirations for the One Ring in J. R. R. Tolkien's The ...

But the star here is the mountain. Just hollow it out and create the dwarf kingdom or the towering castle. With the ready-made shelter and the resources, the seed is just perfect for the builders ...

The white dwarfs have a combined mass of around 1.56 times the sun's mass — a record high for this type of system — despite both being around the same size as Earth. They currently orbit each ...

The need for constant collaboration highlights a notable flaw in The Hobbit. The character roster isn’t limited to just two or three, as is often the case, but nearly a dozen dwarves. While this isn’t ...

Dwarf Fortress - A complex game of colony management ... this witty game whisks you through what life would be like as one of the bird kingdom's biggest annoyances. Pet the Pup at the Party ...

Players become the last guardians of a fallen dwarf kingdom, and they have to rebuild the empire by accumulating resources, battling adversaries, and upgrading their dwarf characters. This game ...

While the Fellowship of the Ring makes its way to Mount Doom, another trinity — a human, an elf, and a dwarf — fights hordes of monsters ... and heats up your interest before the release of The Hobbit ...

Adapting a novel to film or television is a notoriously tricky business. Filmmakers and screenwriters have to juggle various impulses, deciding which characters to include and which to exclude.