The wondrous world of The Hobbit from The Desolation of...
Here are three quite interesting descriptions from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Annual 2014 of the areas...
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Ten Hobbit-styled houses seemingly inspired by Tolkien
This one is not exactly new, but nevertheless pretty cool. Architecture mag freshome put together a short feature...
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Cryptozoic’s Lost DragonCon Tales: The Tale of September 1st
Thunder in the distance, clouds on the horizon. It was shaping up to be a day spent huddling...
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David Salo on Black Speech, orc dialects and the mind...
In this piece on his blog Midgardsmal, linguist David Salo writes about how he derived various Orkish dialects...
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New key artwork for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug...
Courtesy of Ringer Oleander Took on the TORn messageboards, we have some exciting new merchandising key artwork to...
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It’s 99 days and counting until The Desolation of Smaug!
If you live in Belgium, Denmark, France, The Netherlands, Norway, or parts of Switzerland, congratulations — it’s only...
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