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Hand-Drawn Silmarillion Should Wow Tolkien Fans
Our friends over at TheOneRing.net report on a German art student named Benjamin Harff who spent a year and a half creating a one-of-a-kind, hand-made version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion....
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Geeks Wanted for Fantasy Transformation TV Show!
Have you always dreamed of being a knight? Imagined you were in a Tolkien story? Wished you were armed with more than dice? If you have a killer costume on the drawing board, in the works, or in your...
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The Hobbit as Tolkien Saw It
J.R.R. Tolkien was a remarkably talented man, and famously provided a set of his own illustrations for his 1937 novel The Hobbit, though of course many editions have added those by other artists. But...
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The Hobbit: One Year and Counting (Down)
Exactly one year — 366 days in this case — from today will come our first opportunity since 2003 to return to Middle-earth in a new movie. It won’t be easy to wait, but we can feel secure in the ...
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Why the Hobbit Trailer Creeps Me Out
When I first saw the Hobbit trailer, I was pretty excited. My inner fan-boy erupted with a huge roar of approval. So much of it is right: the dwarves, Martin Freeman as Bilbo, comedy, a cool battle...
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Want to Write a Lot? Go for a Walk, Just Like Bilbo
People sometimes ask if I have advice about writing. What works? What tips and tricks can you teach me? “Do you know what you’re going to say before you sit down to say it?” they ask. “Do you know...
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Wait — Atlantis Doesn’t Exist After All (Again)?
Updated seafloor imaging on Google Earth cleans up the artifacts that had people worked up about finding the lost continent.
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Viggo Mortensen, in Boston on March 5 to accept the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Coolidge Award, leads the audience in an impromptu sing-along of a song in another language. No, not Spanish or Danish (two...
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Rumors of Third Hobbit Movie Confirmed
The rumors have been confirmed. The two-movie plan for The Hobbit has been changed, uh, mid-stream. Make room in your movie-going schedule and expectations for a Hobbit trilogy.
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Film for Tolkien Fans The Fellows Hip to Screen at Gen Con
A fellowship of four geeky gamers embarks on an epic journey to overcome impossible; odds, win the game, kiss the girl and put the villains in their place. If this sounds a little like The Lord of the...
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On the 75th Anniversary of The Hobbit, an Appreciation
"It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends" is what the writer Joan Didion once said about her experiences traveling to a new land (in her case, New York City). It's also...
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Middle-Earth Day Saturday at Higgins Armory
If any of these ideas excites you or your kids -- wielding an axe, sword or spear that Tolkien's characters might have held, making an orc-inspired mask or Gondorian shield (or one from Mordor), or...
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Bag End Made From 2,600 Balloons? Yep.
You have some spare time. You're a balloon artist. And you really like The Hobbit. So you make a replica of Bag End. Of course!
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Bilbo’s Last Song, Revised
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is due out in theaters in a month, launching Peter Jackson's vision of the opening bars of the tale of the titular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. It seems like an excellent...
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The Hobbit Production Video No. 9 Released
Fans of The Hobbit! We are being treated to another episode in the multi-part series of production videos from Peter Jackson, director of The Hobbit.
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Speak ‘Friend’ and Eat It: Making a Lord of the Rings Mines of Moria Birthday...
For my nephew, I made this Mine of Moria-themed cake, which I managed to put together in about two hours. Making this monstrosity, about 12" x 18" in the end, was actually not that hard, and as you can...
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Hobbit Production Diary 10 Showcases the Wellington Premiere
The new Hobbit production video is up!
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10 Things Parents Should Know About The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The formal GeekDad analysis of the new Hobbit movie, with important things you need to know before hauling the family off to the theater.
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Book or Movie? How My Favorite Tolkien Scenes Fared on Film
I first found the Lord of the Rings when I was twelve years old and was so obsessed with Tolkien's world that I did a book report on The Simarillion in eight grade. I never expected them to be made ...
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Visual Timeline of The One Ring From The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
A fantastically-visualized timeline of the "life" of The One Ring (to rule them all) from J.R.R. Tolkien's stories. The graphic covers both time, geography, and possession in a gorgeous layout. Well done!
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