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Profiling Palantir — the Tech Firm Beloved by the WEF and Founded by Peter Thiel ...

The Unz Review 13 Apr 2025
Palantir Technologies — its name derived from the “seeing-stones” of deception (Palantir) that allow their holder to see across great distances to track friends and foes, in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of ...
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My visit to the Oxfordshire woodland that inspired Narnia

The Times/The Sunday Times 12 Apr 2025
Lewis has decided to write a children’s story. Many years before, an odd image popped into his head ... RICHARD WAKEFIELD ... Romahi gives me a ring and asks me to hold it above a copy of The Lord of the Rings (written by Lewis’s great friend JRR Tolkien) ... .
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Orlando Bloom recalls thinking ‘what am I doing here’ after joining The Lord of the ...

Hindustan Times 11 Apr 2025
Actor Orlando Bloom recalled shooting for the trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films, The Lord of the Rings. Directed by Peter Jackson, it is based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by English author JRR Tolkien. (Also Read ... "I mean, I was 20 ... ....
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'What am I doing here?': Orlando Bloom recalls what he thought after joining 'The Lord of the Rings'

The Times of India 10 Apr 2025
Actor Orlando Bloom recalled shooting for the trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films, 'The Lord of the Rings', directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by English author ...
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‘WH Smith wasn’t just a workplace’: ex-staff and shoppers on the high street chain

The Observer 08 Apr 2025
He was 16 when he bought his last book from the store, JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings ... To this day, whenever I see a film, episode or other content related to Tolkien’s creation, I’m transported ...
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Novelist Oisín Fagan: ‘I was at the altar of literature and had its fire in me’

The Observer 06 Apr 2025
Oisín Fagan, 33, grew up in County Meath and lives in Dublin ... It’s a confluence of things I’ve been interested in all my life ... In other parts of the world, it’s just part of literary fiction ... my God, this is Robin Hobb, JRR Tolkien, Ursula K Le Guin ... .
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Federico Sturzenegger – the man wielding Javier Milei’s chainsaw on Argentina’s red tape

The Daily Telegraph 06 Apr 2025
So spare a thought for the man whose job it is to slash and burn such a sclerotic civil service from the inside ...It’s insanity, it’s like Lord of the Rings,” Federico Sturzenegger said, in reference to JRR Tolkien’s capital city of Gondor, adding ... .
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Much like Quidditch, Lawson’s Red Bull drive made no sense

Independent online (SA) 04 Apr 2025
For instance, if JRR Tolkien is to be believed, golf was invented at the Battle of the Greenfields, when the hobbit Bandobras Took swung his club so hard as to decapitate the Orc king, Golfimbul, the ...
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Elijah Wood Explains Why Lord Of The Rings Cast Wasn’t Paid As Much As Fans Think

News18 03 Apr 2025
Elijah Wood shared that the production house took a big risk by adapting JRR Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings books without knowing how the first film would perform at the box office ... .
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Elijah Wood says fees for Lord of the Rings actors were ‘not massive’

The Observer 03 Apr 2025
Wood, who played Frodo Baggins in the trilogy of films directed by Peter Jackson and adapted from the epic novels by JRR Tolkien, said the actors understood the significance of the project ... Share. Reuse this content. .
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Pair of statues in Roos to depict cherished moment in Tolkien's life

York Press 26 Mar 2025
Two sculptures celebrating the influence of East Yorkshire on the writings of JRR Tolkien will be unveiled this spring in Roos ... .
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