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Tolkien's literary legacy continues gaining cultural prominence, with a first-edition Hobbit fetching £38k at auction, Peter Jackson reportedly preparing a Silmarillion film adaptation, and Pope Leo invoking Gandalf in his encyclical to critique tech industry leaders.
what's happening
·A first edition of The Hobbit sold for £38,000 at auction
·Peter Jackson is in talks to adapt The Silmarillion into films
·Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas as a lesson for tech entrepreneurs
·A UK 50p coin commemorates the Lord of the Rings film trilogy anniversary
·Historical rejection: the Nobel Prize Committee deemed Tolkien's work not of the highest storytelling quality in 1961
drawn from BBC, SlashFilm, ChurchPOP, WIRED · updated 9h ago