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Bilbo Baggins turns 75, doesn’t look a day over 50

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein’s prelude to the Lord of the Rings series, turned 75 years old today. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1937.

This year also marks the premier of Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation of The Hobbit, which will comprise three movies and include material that was mentioned in the Lord of the Rings appendices. So, if you’re wondering whether to read the book or wait for the movie, we suggest that you read only the first three chapters. Otherwise, it might spoil the second and third movies if you know Bilbo survives for the Fellowship of the Ring.

And, in honor of Bilbo’s birthday, we bring you a song by Leonard Nimoy:

Take it from Snee: Pros and cons of surviving 2011

Whenever I approach a new year, I like to take stock of what I survived. I like to think of myself less as a time traveler stuck in forward linear motion at an uninterruptible rate and more of a time warrior, cleaning out the runners of my time sword as I prepare to skewer another year.

So, here’s an entirely subjective list of what went right and wrong in 2011 before greeting Bolon Yokte as an old friend at midnight, Jan. 1. Continue reading Take it from Snee: Pros and cons of surviving 2011

For Elijah Wood!

The book, it burnses us! Cursed texts-filled pages!The lawsuit by the Tolkien family over profits from New Line Cinema’s Lord of the Rings movies has been settled!

Warner Bros., the new owners of New Line, wisely ditched New Line’s original “Go f@%k yourself, Christopher” defense and will pay the author’s family.

Being British, the family apologized for doing something assertive (since colonization), regretting “that legal action was necessary, but are glad that this dispute has been settled on satisfactory terms.” (“Satisfactory terms!” They even sound like hobbits!)

So, that’s good news for the fans and great news for the rest of us, who were worried that we’d have to actually pick up a book about elves and read it.