Tolkien World

SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026) Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love. We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway. America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire. His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen. Ian McKellen 29 October 2026 Photo: University of Huddersfield

He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us.

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Can Dune surpass The Lord of the Rings legacy?

🚨 La serie de El Señor de los Anillos tendrá un “soft reboot”. En la T3 de Los Anillos de Poder habrá un salto temporal de CINCO años porque, según los showrunners, quieren que la tercera temporada arranque con una Tierra Media transformada y una guerra contra Sauron mucho más avanzada. Los creadores han dicho que la T1 y la T2 se va a poder saltar y empezar directamente con la T3 porque quieren atraer a nuevos espectadores dándole un nuevo impulso a la historia y mostrando cómo han cambiado los personajes y sus relaciones durante ese tiempo.

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think of Middle-earth?