News about Ian Holm

On Saturday night at the historic Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the 30th annual SAG Awards took place. All the leading actors from film and television were on hand in the hopes of winning gongs. However, there were a number of overdue reunions at the star-studded celebration, as well as the excitement of winning awards.

The Hobbits are perhaps Middle Earth's most popular inhabitants, with their long hair, vibrant wardrobe, and diminutive stature. Since appearing in JRR Tolkien's 1937 masterpiece The Hobbit - with their distinctly English homeland. Now, recently discovered letters sent by the author to a female fan have revealed his deep personality with the characters to the extent that he felt like one of the 'guys so little'. In one, written in June 1955, a year after the publication of the first instalment of sequel The Lord of the Rings, he admitted to feeling 'alarm' at the prospect of 'hardship or deprivation of familiar foods (and tobacco)', adding: 'This sounds a fair description of a hobbit!' A Miss F.L. wrote to her in a similar letter. Perry admitted that the Lord of the Rings was 'laborious' to write and likened it to 'walking uphill in heavy boots against a strong wind, despite the sun's fading.' The letter is one of four to the same fan that have come up for auction in New York, where they are likely to sell for nearly £40,000 ($47,000). Inset: In the 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: Inset Top: Ian Holm and Ian McKellen as Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf.