These posters are the work of graphic designer and illustrator Nicolas Alejandro Barbera from Buenos Aires. His Behance page is worth watching and geeky updates are always possible.
3 card preview: Hobbit Tales
Hobbit Tales is a storytelling card game due out early 2014 from Sophisticated Games and Cubicle 7. The game has been designed by Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, the creators of The One Ring RPG and the Tolkien-themed strategy game War of the Ring. In the game players take turns being Narrator and make-up a […]
The One gaming table to RULE them all
How’s this for a dining room set? Not something you’d find in either Argos or John Lewis, I’d imagine. Scratch that. How’s this for a table for a little D&D or Pathfinder on? Perhaps it’s more suited to a bit of dice rolling at MERP or the current LoTR RPG franchise – Cubicle 7’s The […]
3 reasons to Honeymoon at Mount Doom
You might well wonder why you would want to Honeymoon at Mount Doom in Mordor but there are some. At least, according to this resorts in Middle Earth guide from luxury travel specialist Kuoni. Private rooftop sun-deck Beautifully maintained Cracks of Doom Complimentary Wi-Fi The dangerous Mount Doom isn’t the only Middle Earth destination Kuoni […]
3 new pictures of Smaug – The Hobbit finally shows us dragon
We’ve been teased with bits of Smaug in various Hobbit trailers but now we get to see him. There’s a catch. He’s turned up in an unexpected place – New Zealand. In particular, in the skies of New Zealand painted onto the side of an Air New Zealand plane. The plane is 54 metres long […]
The Misty Mountain Cave Trolls t-shirt of doom
[Grab from RedBubble] This design is one of many in The Hookshot’s large and geeky collection of excellent designs. The Misty Mountain Cave Trolls is just one of many in geeky sections. What do you think? The ideal t-shirt for a geek in IT support?
Gandalf the Black
Benjamin Collison’s Gandalf the Black is doing the rounds across the blogs; rightly so. This is a fantastic piece of art that shows what might have happened if Gandalf had taken the One Ring. The insidious power of the Ring is that even someone who took the ring with good intentions will ultimately succumb to […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer
This is The Desolation of Smaug trailer we’ve been expecting to air today. What we weren’t expecting was two and a half minutes that ooze Middle Earth and features certain elves. What do you think? Tempted? Re-energised for the trilogy?
J.R.R. Tolkien reads the Namárië in Elvish
We know Tolkien as the author of the Lord of the Rings. He was a professor and a linguist. He actually created Elven languages to support Middle Earth. He wanted them to have a certain sound. The poem above is spoken, by Tolkien himself, in the Elbish tongue Quenya. It’s easy to hear the pattern […]
Hot? Make your own Hobbit door ice cream sandwich
I’ve never had an ice cream sandwich. This might be something to do with me living in Scotland where it’s cold and ice cream rarely needs to be portable. However, if I was to have a hybrid of ice cream and biscuit then I can think of no better first bite than a hobbit door […]
