Opening Music: "Turin's Madness" by Ainur from their album "Children of Hurin" (2007).

Topics covered:

• IGN's Review of "The Hobbit" game for nintendo.
• The Tolkien-inspired Italian music group from Italy, working on their third album.
• Local theater productions of The Hobbit
• The Hobbit Tour registry is now open.
• Rumours continue to be argued about "The Hobbit" movie being pushed back to 2012
• Dirk Vander Ploeg Explores Middle-earth, archaeological "evidence" that hobbits, dragons, etc. once existed. ;-)
• "The Hobbit" species debate.
• A recording of Tolkien talking about Middle-earth, that much of the tragedy of Middle-earth is the fault of the Valar.
• Some Video Plugs from Michael Martinez, including Tolkien videos.
  
• Howard Shore symphony in Malaysia, a reviewer there compared Tolkien to Wagner (yet another one).
  

Related links:

• http://rr.cube.ign.com/rrview/cube/the_hobbit/477444/97770/
• http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=111468
• http://www.ainur.it/
• http://www.niagara-gazette.com/nightandday/gnnnightandday_story_354103150.html
  
• http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/12/27/30854-the-%E2%80%98hobbit-tour%E2%80%99-register/
• http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/12/19/30806-rumors-abound-hobbit-delayed-until-2012/
  
• http://www.wizardnews.com/news/blog/200812231754/followup-the-hobbit-not-pushed-back-to-2012.html
• http://www.lanlamphere.com/public/2008/11/26/tonight-on-overnight-am-dirk-vander-ploeg-explores-middle-earth-and-joe-thunder-joins-us-to-talk-about-the-freedom-march-against-barack-obama/#comment-1141
• http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008/12/links-and-notes.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8LI_zxmi4
• http://www.xenite.org/science_fiction/videos/
• http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2008/12/28/soundnstage/2889949&sec=soundnstage
  

Closing Music: "Shuddering Water" by Ainur from their album "Children of Hurin" (2007)

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