Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Comic-Con 2017 New Items
July 20, 2017 at 3:11 am -Today brought us Pre-View Night at Comic-Con 2017 and our friends at Weta Workshop came with some absolutely amazing new items. Some of them you can pre-order right now for shipping later this year and one item that is an amazing preview. Grond is an item we’ve gotten a chance to see at various cons…
Today in Middle-earth, July 19
July 19, 2017 at 1:00 am -The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on July 19th: Bilbo’s lost in the caves (1341) Riddles in the dark (1341) Bilbo finds the dwarves and the wizard (1341) The Company is trapped in the trees (1341) The funeral escort of King Théoden sets out (1419)
TORn panel and moot at SDCC on Friday, July 21
July 14, 2017 at 3:12 am -TORn will be doing a panel at San Diego Comic Con on Friday, July 21 at 5pm at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel in the Grand Ballrooms 1 & 2. The Grand Ballroom is located to the right of the main Lobby as you enter from outside, we are in sections 1 &…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Hobbit Hole 19 & 20 Pine Grove
July 14, 2017 at 3:11 am -I’m a big fan of the Hobbit Hole line. It’s such a cool way to bring Hobbiton into a collection and is a price point that fans can get into Middle-earth collectibles so easy. Our friends at Weta Workshop today introduce a new Hobbit Hole for folks to add with Hobbit Hole 19 & 20…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Lurtz at Amon Hen Statue Review
July 10, 2017 at 11:45 pm -Our latest review covers another long awaited, and long asked for, piece from our friends at Weta Workshop. The Lurtz at Amon Hen captures this awesome bad guy about to take his last shot and put an end to the valiant Boromir’s last stand with Merry/Pippin. Unveiled at Comic-Con last year this piece is meant…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Smelebration
July 8, 2017 at 8:00 am -Our friends at Weta Workshop are Smelebrating Smaug this month as well as the birthday of Smaug himself Benedict Cumberbatch. Weta is unleashing a Dragon’s share of discounts on various Smaug related collectables. Just some of the Smaug goodies fans can get are: Smaug the Terrible: Premium statue $549 USD, Smaug – King under the…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Boromir at Amon Hen Statue Review
July 6, 2017 at 2:00 pm -This was one of the surprise pieces at Comic-Con last year and I will say it was one heck of a surprise. A brand new Boromir statue capturing his last moments in battle trying to save Merry and Pippin is quite a powerful piece. I think many will agree this is Boromir’s most heroic moment….
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Elven Warrior Statue Review
July 3, 2017 at 9:04 am -The Battle of the Last Alliance sequence at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the coolest moments in cinema. One of the many cool moments within that sequence is when you get that chain of Elves swiping to kill the orcs as they charge. Our…
Today in Middle-earth, Midsummer’s Day [Mid-year’s Day]
July 1, 2017 at 1:00 am -The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on Midsummer’s Day: Gandalf, the Dwarves and their Burglar leave Rivendell for the Lonely Mountain (1341) Aragorn and Arwen – A promise is born (1380) Gandalf meets Radagast the Brown (1418) The Wedding of Elessar and Arwen (1419) Frodo resigns office of mayor, and Will Whitfoot is restored…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Lady Eowyn of Rohan Statue Review
June 30, 2017 at 8:30 am -As I mention in the video, one of the great things about Weta is that they listen to us, the fans, about which statues we want to see. They run polls via the Flame of Udun, the official Weta forums, which allows fans to chime in with something that means a lot to them and…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s South Courtyard of Dol Guldur Pre-Order
June 28, 2017 at 11:22 pm -As you know we currently have an amazing contest going for a signed entire set of Weta Workshop’s 1:30 Dol Guldur scene. Going up for Pre-Order today is the South Courtyard area, which will be limited to only 500 pieces. This fantastic piece captures the broken down, thorny vine, creepy feel that we saw the…
The Great Hall of Poets
June 27, 2017 at 2:51 am -Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each month we will feature a small selection of the poems submitted, but we hope you will read all of the poems that we have received here in our Great Hall of Poets. So come and join us by…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Auographed Dol Guldur 1:30 Full Set Giveaway
June 26, 2017 at 4:42 pm -One of the new items introduced at last year’s Comic-Con was the 1:30 range of collectibles where fans can recreate scenes from both of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth trilogies. The first set to start things off is the recreation of the scene from Dol Guldur during The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Besides how…
Hall of Fire this weekend: Akallabêth
June 23, 2017 at 8:49 pm -This weekend in the Hall of Fire, we will be discussing one of the great (and tragic) stories of Tolkien’s Legendarium, Akallabêth: The Downfall of Numenor. A land was made for the Edain to dwell in, neither part of Middle-earth nor of Valinor, for it was sundered from either by a wide sea; yet it…
Weta Workshops latest project opens in Melbourne
June 23, 2017 at 2:45 am -Aussies watching the ABC’s News Breakfast show would have seen the exciting news that Weta Workshops latest project is opening today in Melbourne. This latest project, Bug Lab: Little Bugs, Super Powers, is a giant-sized exhibition focused on all things creepy crawly. Anyone familiar with LOTR and the Hobbit will have no doubt how effective these creepy…
Today in Middle-earth, June 22nd
June 22, 2017 at 1:00 am -The following event took place in Middle-earth on June 22nd Bilbo returns to the Shire with the Ring.
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Uruk-hai Swordsman Statue Review
June 21, 2017 at 5:58 am -One of my favorite pieces to come out recently is the Uruk-hai Swordsman from our friends at Weta Workshop. This made its debut at San Diego Comic-Con 2015, and I was stoked to see another Uruk-hai – and specifically one from The Battle of Helm’s Deep. Up to this point the only piece we’ve had…
Collecting The Precious – Funko Comic-Con 2017 Aragorn and Arwen Exclusive 2-Pack
June 20, 2017 at 2:56 am -As we posted recently, the folks at Funko have announced they’re back in the Middle-earth game, and they announced it with several pretty dang awesome The Lord of Rings Pops. San Diego Comic-Con is coming up in July, and virtually every company there has exclusives for the show. Funko announced today via their blog they…
Collecting The Precious – Middle-earth: Shadow of War Story Trailer
June 9, 2017 at 6:25 am -The folks over at Monolith Studios released the official story trailer for the follow to the hit game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Middle-earth: Shadow of War picks up where the events of the first game end, with your two main characters Talion and Celebrimbor still looking for revenge against Sauron. This time our two main…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Dain IronFoot on War Boar Review
June 6, 2017 at 4:28 pm -One of my favorite subsection of statues within the whole Middle-earth statue line from our friends at Weta Workshop is the rider line. This line obviously includes statues that involve someone riding a creature from Middle-earth. There are things like Legolas/Gimli on Arod to Gothmog on Warg. The Hobbit line of course has the amazing…