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Watch the 15-second Hobbit 3 pre-teaser in 1080p widescreen!
July 27, 2014 at 6:50 pm -Teaser Trailer Monday is what the Warner Bros. marketing brainstrust wants to call it, and it’s happening tomorrow at Midday PT/3pm ET. But what’s that in YOUR timezone, you ask? Follow this link to work out when the trailer will debut in YOUR timezone. Warner Bros. UK has also uploaded a higher resolution (up to…
Warner Bros. announces teaser trailer debut for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
July 27, 2014 at 2:21 pm -For the eleventy bajillion readers who keep asking, “when is the teaser trailer coming?” we finally have a concrete answer…. and a 15-second sneak peek. (A teaser for the teaser. How recursive.) The new teaser trailer for #TheHobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will be unveiled tomorrow at 12pm PT / 3pm ET! http://t.co/CpJnmXfPbV…
Post Hall H Cast Interviews
July 27, 2014 at 8:14 am -Several Cast interviews have started showing up on YouTube after The Hobbit Panel on Saturday. Message board regular Arannir shared these ones on the boards and we thought we’d share them with you here. Something else for us all to enjoy while we impatiently await the teaser trailer to appear online.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in Hall H: the details and the spoilers!
July 27, 2014 at 6:49 am -Warner Bros. behind-the-scenes efforts mark this as more than merely another panel — despite the fact it’s sharing a slot with Mad Max Fury: Road, Jupiter Ascending and Batman vs Superman. The enormous, multi-scened wraparound panaorama that muralises the walls of Hall H declares the pre-eminence of The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies…
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Panel, SDCC 2014
July 27, 2014 at 4:25 am -Many thanks to Ringer Piet for bringing this video of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Panel to our attention. Before you get your hopes too high, the teaser trailer has been excised from the video, so it only shows the Panel, but it’s still worth watching for that. Meanwhile we’ll all keep hoping…
Amazing scroll panorama of The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies revealed in Hall H!
July 26, 2014 at 11:31 pm -We had heard that Hall H had been turned into a massive surround screen for The Hobbit, but now we understand precisely what people mean! Even better, Warner Bros. used the panoramic montages that they created for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and the Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Why? Because they also revealed the…
Breaking: Peter Jackson presents The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in Hall H!
July 26, 2014 at 4:24 pm -Well, the long wait is over. Peter Jackson and his team brought much Hobbit goodness to San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H today, and blew everyone’s minds. To say the event zoomed past at an overwhelming pace would be a massive understatement. We’re digesting everything seen and said, and will continue to update as we work…
Rolling updates on The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies presentation from Hall H!
July 26, 2014 at 12:07 pm -Things are hotting up as the Hall H presentation approaches. We’re going to try to bring you as many rolling updates as we possibly can as often as we can about what’s going on! Update #1 Andy Serkis and Lee Pace stopped by the Hall H line late last night. Apparently some 10,000 people have…
Evangeline Lilly speaks about shooting her final scene
July 26, 2014 at 10:08 am -Evangeline Lily spoke to Clevver Movies at Comic-Con about her book The Squickerwonkers, as well as the experience of shooting her final scene in the trilogy. She says that it comes near the end of the final film, in the last fifteen minutes, and was her favorite experience from the shoot, though it left her…
We’ve got you covered for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies presentation at SDCC
July 26, 2014 at 8:41 am -Today is the big day! Sometimes after 10am Pacific time, Peter Jackson will stroll onto the Hall H stage at San Diego Comic-Con to provide some 6,000 people a “first look” at The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. TheOneRing.net’s staff will be on hand to report all the details, and we’ll be bringing…
Regarding Aragorn: a matter of age
July 26, 2014 at 8:24 am -Over the years J.R.R. Tolkien corrected a number of typographical errors and inconsistencies within The Lord of the Rings. The 50th anniversary edition, released in 2004 and overseen by Christopher Tolkien, remains the most recent such revision. In this TORn library article Barliman chatter and Hall of Fire regular Puma examines one error regarding Aragorn’s…
Analysis: Bard, the Black Arrow and the Windlance
July 26, 2014 at 6:44 am -One of the more interesting things to pop out of the TORn mega-spoiler list relates to Bard, the Black Arrow and the weapon known as the Windlance. Readers, of course, already know that Bard’s Black Arrow plays a critical role in Smaug’s attack on Lake-town. “Arrow!” said the bowman. “Black arrow! I have saved you…
Evangeline Lilly Q&A at San Diego Comic Con
July 26, 2014 at 1:55 am -Nerd HQ hosted a Q&A with Evangeline Lilly, where she talks about Lost, her new book – The Squickerwonkers, what’s on her bucket list, her humanitarian work and of course her character, Tauriel from The Hobbit. You might want to fast forward to the 2:43 minute point when the Q&A actually begins. Evangeline also talks…
New Shadow of Mordor “The Bright Lord” Trailer!
July 25, 2014 at 11:51 pm -Coinciding with its debut today at Comic-Con, WB Interactive Entertainment has released an all new trailer online for its Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor video game. The game comes to Playstation 4, Xbox One, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC on September 30 in the U.S. and October 2 for the rest of the world….
Magic, movies and The Lord of the Rings
July 25, 2014 at 1:53 pm -Cinefex writer Graham Edwards examines what magic in movies should look like, and lists some of his favourite depictions of magic in movies through the years. His conclusion that magic in movies is most often associated with light is interesting since, in Tolkien, magic so often derives from sound, music and words (think of Frodo…
TORn ‘Hobbit’ panel highlights Tolkien at SDCC Day 1
July 25, 2014 at 11:44 am -SAN DIEGO — Warner Bros. definitely has something up its sleeve for Saturday at Comic-Con, but Thursday was left to the fans. Staffers of TheOneRing.net were invited to to take the stage, in what has become a Comic-Con tradition, to talk Middle-earth movies from Peter Jasckon, and this year for the final Hobbit film. It was…
TORn’s Laketown Luau is tonight: Things to know before you go
July 25, 2014 at 6:24 am -We are so happy to be hosting an ‘offsite event’ here at San Diego Comic Con, and can’t wait to party like Hobbits and Dwarves with you all. So here are a few fast little facts you all need to know about the party. 1) The Laketown Luau is located at the Kona Kai resort…
#TORnLIVE video streaming schedule from San Diego Comic Con
July 24, 2014 at 8:32 pm -Join the live chat and video feed from San Diego Comic Con at these scheduled times and randomly throughout the week! All times US Pacific. (To convert to your local time click here) FOLLOW ON TWITTER for updates and sudden live times! Thursday 11:30 Masters of the Web panel ft Nicolas Cage as Superman 2:00…
Peter Jackson likely to direct ‘Doctor Who’
July 24, 2014 at 6:01 pm -In an interview with SFX magazine, ‘Doctor Who’ showrunner Steven Moffat stated that Peter Jackson is still in the running to direct a future episode of the long running sci-fi series. “I think it will probably happen at some point. I mean, he can do what the hell he likes – he owns New Zealand!…
Alberta Film Ratings lists 1:48 minute Hobbit 3 teaser trailer!
July 24, 2014 at 4:10 pm -Following the listing on The British Board of Film Classification on July 11, Alberta Film Ratings has just issued a PG rating for the teaser trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Running time is the same: 1 minute and 48 seconds. The only question now is whether the attendees in Hall…