Compare The Desolation of Smaug trailer: 48 fps v 24fps!
Over at HFRmovies.com a talented fellow named Michael Sanders has used some nifty video trickery to interpolate what...
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s foremost and only Yiddish-language translator
Thanks to Ringer Tajik for the heads-up on this interesting read about a Yiddish translation of The Hobbit....
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Weta’s Paul Tobin on dwarf design and the sublime skill...
TORn staffer Justin caught up with Weta conceptual designer Paul Tobin at the San Diego Comic-Con last month...
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Is New Zealand’s greatest actor New Zealand itself?
Thanks to Ringer Nienna for the heads-up on this little BBC feature about the starring role that New...
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TORn asks cartoonist Todd McFarlane about the feasibility of Middle-earth...
Recently at the san Diego Comic-Con we had a brief chat with famed cartoonist Todd McFarlane and asked...
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New Desolation of Smaug key art poster!
And here’s new poster art for Desolation of Smaug, too! Is this a subtle indicator that we will...
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