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 […]
New trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Due out at the end of the year, the second part of The Hobbit, is The Desolation of Smaug. This trailer shows us some more elf, orc, spider, Legolas and dragon action. Smaug doesn’t look like a “could be kind and wise” dragon. Not at all. This is the UK trailer.
The Periodic Table of Middle Earth
This particular table of “elements” includes characters from the Lord of the Rings as well as the Hobbit. Other geeky Periodic Tables? Sure, we can do that. What about Syfy’s Periodic Table of the Empire Strikes Back or this one of Imaginary Elements? What about an actual periodic table? Via LOTRProject.
Wizards without Coats: One Ring
In this week’s Wizard without Coats encounter, we go to places that The Lord of the Rings never did. < PreviousWizards without Coats Next > Thats like, the first unwritten rule; no one wears the One Ring doing dishes… gah hobbits! The first rule of surviving the dangerous fantasy world – do not wear […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug preview feature
This isn’t a trailer as such but this feature with Peter Jackson does give as a peak into the second Hobbit film; The Desolation of Smaug. Released on April Fools’ Day it does have some joking with questions from special guest stars but is certainly worth a watch. I especially liked the Mirkwood art. Via […]
