The excitement just keeps coming! Sir Ian McKellen just tweeted as follows: Orlando Bloom and I on NBC’s…
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The excitement just keeps coming! Sir Ian McKellen just tweeted as follows:
Orlando Bloom and I on NBC’s Today show to premiere the trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug tomorrow Tuesday 8am EDT
— Ian McKellen (@IanMcKellen) September 30, 2013
Time to set those DVRs, and catch Gandalf and Legolas on tv before you watch the latest trailer!
Here’s high-resolution clean versions of the Hobbit artwork that has just debuted today on the official Hobbit website. Download and enjoy. We think they make great desktop artwork! Continue reading “Elves! Dwarves! Hobbit! Brand-new artwork for The Desolation of Smaug”
Last year, you may remember that Denny’s had a Hobbit menu in their restaurants during the holiday season. Today we can reveal that they’re doing it again this year, with an all new menu to be launched close to the film’s release; but the REALLY exciting news is the contest they’ll be launching tomorrow, to celebrate their renewed partnership with Warner Bros. and the Hobbit movies.
Denny’s will be hosting ‘The Search for Middle-earth’s Greatest Fan’. This competition will run throughout the month of October, and will be for an AMAZING prize: a two-night trip for two, including flights and hotel, to see the Desolation of Smaug world premiere! That’s right; if you’re deemed Middle-earth’s Greatest Fan, your reward will be that you will get to be in the audience at the world premiere screening of the next Hobbit movie, in December this year.
How do you win such an incredible prize? Full details of the competition will be coming tomorrow, when Denny’s make their official launch, but we can let you know that you’ll need to make a video explaining WHY you are the biggest fan. Tomorrow a website will go live, where you can upload such a video; we’ll let you know details, such as how long it should be and any other rules.
Denny’s will pick their favourite videos. They will then send those videos along to us here at TORn, where we will pick, from Denny’s favourites, what we think should be the top five. This top five will then be sent to Peter Jackson himself, who will choose his favourite to be the winner. Does it get any better than that? – Peter Jackson himself choosing the lucky winner who will get to join him at the premiere.
TORn is excited to be partnering with Denny’s on this. If you read this post last year, you’ll know that we were pleasantly surprised by the care and attention Denny’s gave to their Hobbit menu. This year they’ve been going even further, and have been consulting an ‘Advisory Board’, which includes Senior Staff at TORn, about some of their menu content and giveaway ideas. And of course, we here at TheOneRing.net always love bringing you, dear reader, the chance to win cool stuff – and what could be cooler than this contest?
Check back tomorrow morning – after you’ve watched the new Desolation of Smaug trailer – to get all the details on how you could win those tickets to see the world premiere! Smaug is coming!!
As everybody has been emailing Spymaster to say, the latest Desolation of Smaug trailer will be launched tomorrow, 1st October! The new trailer will be available online at 9am EST – that’s 2pm in the afternoon in the UK, 6am in the morning on the West coast of the US. Of course, TORn will bring you a link to the trailer as soon as we can – and you can expect our usual thoughts and analysis soon thereafter!
Meanwhile, TORn has been told that in the 24 hours running up to this trailer release, various websites will be revealing new artwork for The Desolation of Smaug. The first piece has already gone up; it was unveiled on MSN, and can also be seen on The Hobbit website. Check it out here – cobwebs and dwarves and hobbits, oh my!
We’ll be keeping our ears to the ground, and will be sure to share the rest of the new artwork as soon as we can! Smaug is drawing near…
UPDATE: And here’s the second new piece of artwork – for all you elf fanciers out there! Check it out. Thanks to spy DanielLB for the heads up!
As promised in this post last week, TORn is delighted to bring you this exclusive Q&A with our favourite specialist in performance capture, Gollum himself, Mr Andy Serkis!
Serkis was giving the press Q&A specifically to talk about The Bone Season, the new book for which he and his team at The Imaginarium have obtained the film rights. This first novel in a new fantasy series is a real page turner, and has great potential for the big screen – and Serkis was clearly excited to tell us about it! He also talks about other upcoming projects, how working with Peter Jackson has influenced his career, and, in response to the questions put to him specifically by TORn, he leaves us with a tantalizing remark about Gollum and The Hobbit…
Over the last week I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with PeckishOwl about her hilarious Oakentoons. We discussed where she gets her inspirations for the various toons and which one she loves the most. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did doing it. So without further ado, over to PeckishOwl 🙂
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