Sept. 21, 1937: The Hobbit Opens Up a Brave New World
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Fantasy fiction isn't a big seller in the first part of the 20th century. Along comes Tolkien and  changes everything.
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Hundreds of would-be hobbits have flocked to London's West End theatre district to audition for parts in the musical stage version of J.R.R. Tolkien's &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot;.
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Pearl Harbor veteran Andrew Hlusak of Phoenix was fresh off a 12-hour shore leave on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when he heard a fateful call that signaled the entire world was about to change.
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Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson reaches an agreement to produce two  films based on The Hobbit.
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Is it the real McCoy? Does it matter? Houghton Mifflin's decision to publish an unfinished work by J.R.R. Tolkien next year is prompting such questions. The book is the epic ``Children of H&#xFA;rin," begun in 1918 by the legendary author of ``The Hobbit" and ``The Lord of the Rings." Unfinished at the time of Tolkien's death in 1973, the book ...
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Arts & entertainment: Director of Lord of the Rings trilogy signs up to produce two films based on Tolien's The Hobbit
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How interesting it is that scientists have discovered another species of human - an 18,000-year-old skeleton named Homo floresiensis that has been described as &quot;hobbit-sized.
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Once a nausea-inducing fad, 3-D is staging a comeback -- more than 50 years after its first run. When Beowulf comes out in November, it will premiere on nearly 1,000 3-D screens -- the most ever.
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Arts & entertainment: They've lavished money and machinery turning Tolkien's epic story into a musical. Was it worth it?
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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Newly unearthed remains of hobbit-sized humans, perhaps one of the most significant finds involving human evolution in recent years, are being stored in an office drawer in the Indonesian capital.
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Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."
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THE MYSTERY: Since the discovery of the famed "hobbit fossil," researchers have wrangled over whether the find was a human ancestor or a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
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Editor&#39;s note: &quot;The Incredibles&quot; opens at a handful of Seattle-area theaters at midnight tonight. It opens widely tomorrow.
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The discovery of fossils from a race of ancient, hobbit-like human ancestors on the Indonesian island of Flores earlier this year has triggered a small tourism boom, island officials say.
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LONDON, Oct 18  (IPS) - Under as brave a banner as ''Another  world is possible'', the third European Social  Forum  that concluded in London Sunday was always open to the  question-but just  how?
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Arts & entertainment: The Lord of the Rings, the most expensive West End musical ever, is about to open. Paul Arendt enters a world of elves, ents and orcs.