The results are in! After three weeks of intense competition we can finally crown a winner! In the end, Thranduil — the Sindarin king of the Woodland Realm — has taken the crown in our 2014 Middle-earth March Madness contest!

We received more than 20,000 votes in the final, and Thranduil (Thrandy to his nearest and dearest?) soundly defeated his worthy opponent Legolas (aka Leggy) with 64.18% of those votes! I guess it is good to be king!

We’d like to thank you all for participating in this year’s event and hope you had a fun time discussing the finer points of your favourite Middle-earth characters and objects, regardless of whether you viewed the contests as a physical battle, a game of wits, or a popularity contest (all valid ways to vote!). It’s also a neat way to explore what makes these characters such interesting and vital parts of Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

Continue reading “Congratulations to our 2014 Middle-earth March Madness champion: Thranduil!”

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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…”

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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).

Continue reading “Oakentoon #49 – It Runs in the Family, Oakentoon #50 – The Desolation of Smaug, Oakentoon #51 – 60 Years Earlier”

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DigitalSpy have posted this video of their Twitter Q&A with Richard Armitage.  In it they ask him about what we can expect to see in the Extended Edition of Desolation of Smaug and what he’s most looking forward to seeing in There And Back Again.

Continue reading “Richard Armitage talks about the upcoming EE and There And Back Again”

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Happy Hobbit has reached the milestone of over 5k YouTube subscribers and nearly one million total video views. To celebrate, we’re going to…. clean?!

Hopefully not, but if you need some direction in your spring cleaning, then perhaps you need to build a mathom keeper!

Are you getting tired of your mathoms being all a clutter? Do you need some inspiration for this year’s spring cleaning? Then join Kili and learn how to make a “mathom keeper” for all of your nick-knacks!

Remember to send in photos of your mathom keepers on our Facebook page here!

Now to head off and really celebrate by getting our Blu-ray copy of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, out today!

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