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Tolkien

Waiting for Tolkien

Arts, Culture & Media

Guillermo del Toro was an inspired pick to direct the The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. If anybody can keep Bilbo from getting cute — and keep Gollum genuinely creepy — it’s the director of Pan’s Labyrinth. When del Toro visited Studio 360 last summer, he talked with Kurt about […]

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