Day 341 - Beautiful new concept art from The Sunday Times Magazine Hobbit Collectors Edition

Alan Lee sketch and a whole new picture of Bag End? Worth the purchase price alone!

You can see more at the Sunday Times website (fee payable).

Favourite spreads from The Hobbit edition of Empire magazine.

Hobbiton has to be my favourite of course!

Fellowship of the Ring DVD Extended Edition wallpapers from 2002. Archive downloads from the Lord of the Rings website.

I hope you’ve had a wonderful Hobbit Day! Its not all over though, there’ll be lots of reasons to celebrate hobbits the rest of the year as the movie marketing gets up to full speed.

Don’t forget to save everything from The Hobbit movies website too….you never know when it might prove useful in the future too….

Hobbiton concept art wallpapers, from the 2001 Lord of the rings website.

Hobbit heroes! An archive collection of 2001 wallpapers of all the hobbits of the fellowship, from the Lord of the Rings website at the time.

Why not give your computer some vintage style by using one of the wallpapers?

A glimpse of life in The Shire - Shots of Hobbiton from the Lord of the Rings site circa 2001.

Creating Hobbiton, an archive series of photos from The Lord of the Rings website, circa 2001.

Day 284 - Happy Hobbit Day, from the archives!

Back in the mists of Internet time, before the dawn of Tumblr and blogging and YouTube and social networking, the place to be if you wanted a Middle-earth fix was LordOfTheRings.net - the official website for The Lord of the Rings films.

There were all sorts of digital goodies you could download from the site, images and wallpapers and movies and screensavers (remember those?) and while a lot of them eventually found their way onto the Lord of the Rings DVD’s, many have been lost….until now.

Some dedicated hobbits saved and archived everything that the site had, the moment it was released, and its been sitting in server archives ever since. Now though I’m blowing the dust off and in celebration of Hobbit Day and with new films right around the corner I’m going to post a selection of the best Hobbit-centric things that you may have never seen before, from my archive.

Happy Hobbit Day, everybody!