An Unexpected Party: Weta to release a new The Hobbit board game
The game is designed for ages 10 and up, lasts around 50 minutes and is all about being a messy dwarf and annoying Bilbo!
Geek culture and geek family trips may not mix
How would reunions of some of the geekiest or pop culture enshrined fictional families go?
Middle Earth map annotated by J.R.R. found in a book
This map was found in a book owned by the illustrator Pauline Baynes. Baynes had been tasked with creating illustrations by Tolkien’s publishers Allen & Unwin in 1970. In drawing her own map she worked with J.R.R.…
Cheesy Hobbit Valentine’s Day cards
Created by Skirtzzz over on Deviant Art. Alli/Skirtzzz introduces these three with “I did a thing and I’m sorry”.
Why should she be sorry? Cheesy is good. I was pleased to see “but only a little bit.”…
Cinematic montage explodes with greatness and over 300 clips
This is the second cinematic montage from GameOvais and it is incredible. It’s hard not to become a champion for cinema after watching a collection like this. It’s worth keeping your geek hat on too and watch how many of these great films are directly inspired or taken from geeky titles.…
Rule 63 Bilbo Baggins
Look at those feet!
This is cosplayer and deviant artist Aishafee and about 3 months worth of work. According to the artist the most challening aspect of the cosplay was Sting.…
Middle-Earth Facebook covers
It’s hard not to be impressed by Otis Frampton. He’s been featured twice on Geek Native before and is one of the two artists who work on “How It Should Have Ended”.…
Geek-perfect Sting sword replica glows when near wifi
Bilbo Baggins’ magic sword was called Sting and it glowed blue whenever orcs came too close. That’s pretty useful when you’re a Hobbit.
Over at Make.com Krista Peryer has the story of a new generation of Sting, a geek perfect sword, a sword called WarSting.…
Gollum cake is freaky real
This cake is wonderful. It’s so wonderful it’s more than a little freaky. It looks like you’re being asked to eat Gollum.
Made by Karin Klenner of Sweet Little Treat the cake is 30cm high and uses about 1.5kg of modeling chocolate.…
A quick four minutes to learn about The Lord of the Rings mythology
CGP Grey’s video is an excellent way to go deep into the huge mythology of Lord of the Rings. Most importantly, this won’t take you days and days of readng. This takes between 4 and 5 minutes of animation and quick, but clear, voice over.…
