An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition release date?
June 19, 2013 at 9:27 am -Last week we posted about the rating which has been given to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition. (You can read that story here.) As many of our messageboard users have noticed, websites such as Blu-ray.com are now giving November 12th of this year as the release date for this extended cut of the…
What we learned from the Desolation of Smaug Trailer
June 19, 2013 at 3:40 am -So what did we learn from the first “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” trailer? We saw some new characters, the promise of favorite scenes from the book brought to life, and a few departures from existing text. Here is a little round up what was seen and what it all might mean. …
Happy Hobbit Fans Join Us On TORn TUESDAY *Live* Webcast Today!
June 18, 2013 at 6:39 pm -We have several special guests on our innovative live webcast TORn TUESDAY today at 5pm Pacific Time — including the fangirls Kili & Fili from HAPPY HOBBIT who went viral last week with their splendid reaction video to the D.O.S. teaser trailer (which was in turn shown by P.J. to his Elvish cast members) –…
TORn Message Boards Weekly Roundup – June 16, 2013
June 17, 2013 at 3:54 am -Welcome to our collection of TORn’s hottest topics for the past week. If you’ve fallen behind on what’s happening on the Message Boards, here’s a great way to catch the highlights. Or if you’re new to TORn and want to enjoy some great conversations, just follow the links to some of our most popular discussions….
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s The Fellowship of the Ring Set 3
June 17, 2013 at 12:53 am -The Fellowship of the Ring is now complete. As you may know from following our news and reviews of this set, Weta Workshop created a three piece set of The Fellowship as they crest the hill from that memorable scene in The Fellowship of the Ring. You can still order Set 1 and Set 2…
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there!
June 16, 2013 at 11:48 am -Just wishing all our readers who are Dads – or who are the sons and daughters of Dads, so basically, everyone! – a Happy Father’s Day! Who’s your favourite father in Middle-earth? Sam Gamgee? Elrond? If only Treebeard hadn’t lost the Entwives, he could have made a great Dad! And who can forget Denethor’s impeccable…
Stephen Fry has never completed The Hobbit
June 16, 2013 at 8:50 am -The Desolation of Smaug star Stephen Fry has admitted that he has never read The Hobbit. Fry — who appears as The Master of Laketown in the second instalment of the film trilogy — confessed that he only skim-read the parts of the novel that featured his character. Speaking on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Podcast,…
The Pony: The Desolation of Smaug
June 15, 2013 at 5:45 am -Welp, someone decided to mash-up the new teaser trailer for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. With Shining Armour as Legolas and Princess Cadance as Tauriel, and Applejack as Bard (I looked them all up on the internet, honest), the result is too cute to overlook. The dragon looks…
Hall of Fire chat log: Helm’s Deep
June 15, 2013 at 4:28 am -A couple of weekends ago, we dived into the big battle of The Two Towers as we discussed Helm’s Deep (Book III, Chapter VII) in Hall of Fire. For those who couldn’t attend, here’s a log. And a reminder: tomorrow (Saturday June 15 at 6pm EDT) we’ll be moving onto the next chapter as we…
Generator catches fire at Hobbit set
June 15, 2013 at 3:49 am -Some breaking news via Stuff.co.nz. A huge cloud of smoke engulfed a Hobbit film set on the Miramar Peninsula when a generator caught fire. Ed Scragg, who saw the fire from a Roseneath home on the other side of Evans Bay, said clouds of smoke engulfed a lighting tower on the set which has been…
Hall of Fire topic this weekend: The Road to Isengard
June 14, 2013 at 6:56 pm -Throughout the War of the Ring there were several turning points, but among the most crucial to the downfall of Sauron was the battle of Helm’s Deep and the defeat of Saruman’s forces. This Saturday, (July 15 at 6pm EDT (New York time)) the Hall of Fire crew invite you to join us as we…
No IMAX ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Trailer?
June 14, 2013 at 1:43 pm -A few reports are coming in from fans that the IMAX screenings of ‘Man of Steel’ do NOT include a trailer for ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.’ These reports are unconfirmed. If you would like to guarantee you will get to the see the trailer on the big screen this weekend, we highly suggest…
An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition given rating
June 14, 2013 at 10:41 am -We’ve known for a while that there would be an Extended Edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Warner Bros.’ press release back in March, at the time of the release of the Theatrical Edition DVD and Blu-ray, said that the Extended Edition would be ‘available just in time for the holidays’. Now we’ve…
Collecting The Precious – The Bridge Direct’s 2013 Comic-Con Exclusive Figure Azog the Defiler
June 13, 2013 at 12:17 pm -Today, our friends at The Bridge Direct have revealed the final look of their 2013 Comic-Con Exclusive figure! As you may remember, last year they did a 6″ Invisible Bilbo Baggins figure, as he would look while wearing the Ring. Well, this year they are bringing to fans a 7″ version of one of the…
Guillermo del Toro not credited as a screenwriter in DoS trailer
June 13, 2013 at 9:59 am -If, like us, you have been repeatedly watching the new The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer over the last couple of days, you may have noticed something surprising at the end. In the second screen of credits, right after Tolkien’s name, the screenwriters are credited: ‘Screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson’. That’s…
Collecting The Precious – Gentle Giant’s Azog the Defiler Mini-Bust
June 12, 2013 at 7:42 pm -The big week in Middle-earth continues today, with a brand new product from the folks at Gentle Giant. Following up the massive Goblin King bust is another bad guy from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: the pale Orc himself, Azog the Defiler, will be the next bust for sale from Gentle Giant. Azog comes in…
Esperanto Hobbit translation reprinted
June 12, 2013 at 7:23 pm -The Russian publisher Sezonoj has just published a reprint of the second edition of La Hobito, world famous work by J.R.R. Tolkien, as the ninth volume of the Mondliteraturo series of books. Translated by Christopher J. Gledhill and William Auld* (only the poems), La Hobito first appeared in the Esperanto world in 2000 and again…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Bilbo Baggins Barrel Rider
June 12, 2013 at 7:19 am -Today, is a huge day! We’ve already gotten the first poster for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and of course today we got the first trailer for the movie. Well, that’s not the only thing for the new movie that has made an appearance on this very special day. Weta has just released the…
Hobbit news in brief: new production video soon, trailer reactions and premiere update
June 12, 2013 at 6:27 am -In the wake of the release of the Desolation of Smaug trailer last night (if you haven’t seen it yet, you can check it out here, read the reactions of our staff here, and see some new high-resolution stills here), here’s a few snippets of interesting news for everyone! Some you might have already read,…
Eight new high-resolution stills from the new Hobbit trailer
June 11, 2013 at 10:01 pm -Coinciding with the release of the teaser for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Warner Bros. has released eight high-resolution stills taken from the trailer. The choices seem to provide a bit of direction as to the key protagonists and antagonists for the forthcoming film, although one notes in passing that some of the trailer’s…
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