George R.R. Martin donates first edition of ‘The Hobbit’ to Texas University March 9, 2015 – Posted in: Libraries, Special Collections

George R.R. Martin, whose “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series is the basis for the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, has donated a rare first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937) to Texas A & M University. Martin, whose archive is housed at Texas A&M, became enamored with the University and especially with the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives’ Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection during the 1970s while visiting for the AggieCon…

Denny’s to Visit Middle-Earth October 23, 2012

Denny’s is jumping on the Hobbit bandwagon. In anticipation of the upcoming film version of J. R. R. Tolkein’s classic novel Denny’s has created a special Middle-Earth inspired menu. Since hobbits eat breakfast twice a day and nosh about seven times a day it is probably not such a bad idea. Menu items include 11 breakfast, lunch and dinner items such as “Hobbit Hole Breakfast,” “Frodo’s Pot Roast Skillet,” “Gandalf’s Gobble Melt” and the “Build…