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. That’s in addition to about 1kg of fondant. What do you think? Good […]
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. This video explains the role Gandalf and the other wizards […]
Smaug and Toothless go head to head
20-something Australian artist Ria blogs as Tapestry Clouds. She’s into fanart, fanpics, animation and Superwholock. I am fire and death! Hat tip Eli Reyes at Geek Tyrant.
Interactive Map of The Battle of Five Armies
Duh! Alert! If you don’t know how The Hobbit ends then this interactive map contains spoilers. From a hole in the ground and Bilbo all the way through to the Battle of Five armies – there’s a lot that happens in the relatively small The Hobbit. Enough for three movies! Well. Perhaps. The Shirts.com team […]
Custom blinds inspired by The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Back in April we featured some Game of Thrones blind designs made by the Made to Measure Blinds team. Those designers are back and inspired by the forthcoming and final movie in The Hobbit. You can read a little more about these spoiler-free designs at the Made to Measure blog. Iron Hills Leader: Dain II […]
Can you keep up when tech talk meets The Hobbit?
This is a joke you need level 1 of computer science to understand. Eight Hobbytes in a Hobbit. Makes sense. (Via Imgur)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies trailer
We’re sneaking up to the end of the year and that means another Hobbit film. I wonder what people who’ve not read the books are thinking as they watch The Battle of the Five Armies trailer. Are they thinking; “What’s dragon-sickness? Where did all those armies come from? Thank goodness Legolas is there.”
UK Oak Doors hides famous geeky doors in their site
If you pop over to UK Oak Doors you’ll see what looks like a normal retail site. The clue in the name. You can buy doors from this. In fact, you can buy doors that are made from oak and sold in the UK. The doors are lovely but you might be wondering why on […]
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies trailer
It’s been a great few days for trailers. Here’s another and it is all the way from Middle Earth. Thorin wrestles with friendship, honour and great big piles of loot while Sauron smuggles hordes of orcs over to the Lonely Mountain. If you’ve not see Lord of the Rings then just assume it all works […]
Bluff your Tolkien knowledge: The Silmarillion in three minutes
Think you aught to know what happens in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion in order to protect your geek cred? Don’t fancy reading the book? This video might help – although, yeah, you really should give it a read. Creating by John Kloess the YouTube animation rushes through the events in the book, paying special attention to […]
