On Tuesday 18th December I was lucky enough to be given, at the last minute, a ticket to the premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in Sydney.  To say I was excited is an understatement! I’ll try to keep this review relatively spoiler free, but its hard! Coming from the book first and foremost [...]

To coincide with the release in the UK and US today of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Weta has released this beautiful hardback behind the scenes book of the art, design and craft that went into creating The Hobbit. It’s given the team behind the Lord of the Rings movies a chance to revisit and [...]

Our inhouse Voyager reading club recently decided to go back and re-read ( or read for the first time- *gasp!* ) Raymond E. Feist’s original classic fantasy epic Magician, published in 1982. Upon reaching the introduction of Feist’s Dwarves, and the character Dolgan in particular, it struck me that I assumed the ‘deep, rolling burr’ [...]

Last week was officially Tolkien Week foy Harper Voyager! On Friday the 21st we celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of The Hobbit in 1937 and participated in the global Second Breakfast party. We had Tea, Scones, Pikelets, jam & cream (The bakery were out of seed cakes and the building folk wouldn’t [...]