You might recall last year that Warner Bros published a series of posters to coincide with the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on DVD and Blu-ray. Here’s a new one with some neat movie-canon factoids about The Arkenstone for the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Continue reading “Check out this very cool poster about The Arkenstone!”
Month: April 2014
There’s a lot of excitement floating round academic communities for J.R.R. Tolkien’s forthcoming Beowulf translation (which you can pre-order here) where the prevailing buzz seems to be “best thing since slices bread”. Here, writer Mabel Slattery outlines why.
EDIT: There is an error of fact within the article. Michael Drout did not actually re-discover Tolkien’s Beowulf translation.
I did not “discover” the Beowulf translation, not even in the sense that I found it in the Bodleian Library. This claim is a conflation of a story about one manuscript with information about a totally different text.
The real story is not quite as exciting.
You can read Drout’s explanation in full here.
Don’t forget to click the link to read the full article. Continue reading “Why Tolkien’s Beowulf translation is one of the best things to happen to literature”
Pre-order the brand new EXCLUSIVE t-shirt from TheOneRing.net and avoid the lines! This shirt will only be sold for Wondercon and will not be made available after the convention. We sold out most conventions last year and wanted to give everyone the opportunity to get a Con shirt, so pre-order yours now and it will be waiting for you to pick up at our booth #1504. We will have a limited supply at the convention itself, so ordering in advance is definitely the preferred method to assure you get this whimsical design from TORn staffer Nancy Steinman.
NOTE: This is for PICK UP only at WonderCon Anaheim. Currently NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING. Please note, the earliest design image of this shirt indicated a Woman’s designed shirt, but for now we are only able to create the more standard Men’s cut shirt.
Our friends at The Hobbit Movies and LOTRProject have run the numbers on the dialogue from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. It only requires a quick glance for some interesting trends to emerge. Continue reading “Who was the most talkative in The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug? The answer may just surprise you…”
A rumour is currently circulating that The Lord of the Rings and Lost star Dominic Monaghan may be in line for a cameo role in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars sequels.
The story, which seems to have begun on Star Wars news-site YodasNews is that the 37-year-old will have a cameo as a Jedi — possibly in Episode 7.
Continue reading “Monaghan rumoured for Star Wars Ep 7 cameo?”
Welcome to this weeks episodes of the Oakentoons 🙂
Don’t forget to check out the Oakenstills and Oakencrossovers while you’re there and to say hi to Peckish Owl.
As always, just click the images to go to Peckish Owls site to see the full size images (you’ll also need to click on the longer ones once you’re on her site to see them in full size).