Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each…
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Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each month we will feature a small selection of the poems submitted, you can read all of the poems that we received here in our Great Hall of Poets.
So come and join us by the hearth and enjoy!
I love Kermit the Frog to bits, but I think he’s got some competition! Thorin Puppetshield is the work of illustrator, crafter and artist Rosemary Travale, and it’s quite, quite brilliant. Thanks to Ringer MJSpice for the heads-up!
Over the summer I decided I wanted to attempt to make a muppet-style puppet. It’s something that I’ve always wanted to try and when I was joking with a friend that Richard Armitage’s Thorin Oakenshield would make a good muppet, things just sort of came together. In between working on my stop motion thesis film at school this year, I’ve put in some time here and there to finish this!
To celebrate one year of Happy Hobbit, we will be hosting our first ever live event this Sunday, October 20 at 3PM PT!
So start thinking of questions and topics and get ready to join in the fun and madness! Simply login to Ustream just like you do for TORn Tuesdays and chat away. We look forward to seeing you then!
The details:
Where: http://www.theonering.net/live/
Date: Sunday October 20, 3pm PT
When is that in your time zone: head to this link!
Ringer Janina lets us know that German fantasy convention RingCon begins at the Maritim Hotel Bonn, in Bonn, Germany on October 18.
Guests from the Tolkien universe include: Craig Parker (Haldir), Lori Dungey (Mrs. Bracegirdle), Mark Ferguson (Gil-Galad), William Kircher (Bifur), David Wenham (Faramir), and Stephen Ure (Grishnakh, Gorbag, Fimbul and Grinnah). Plus the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft (German Tolkien Society), blogger and Tolkien scholar TheTolkienist and many more lecturers, artists, workshop instructors and cosplayers will be there too.
You can follow the buzz on twitter and tumblr, searching the hashtag #ringcon.
Daily tickets are still available at the event itself. Continue reading “RingCon 2013 fantasy convention begins tomorrow in Bonn!”
Join Kili and Fili to learn a bit more about how the webseries came into being, Hobbitception, what’s next, and most importantly, how the show has changed their lives for the better! To all who have supported us on this journey thus far, hannon le. May your paths ever be charmed! Continue reading “Happy Hobbit: Episode 26. A retrospective of Year One.”
This video asks: ‘What if Benedict Cumberbatch had voiced Smaug in the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit?’. Thanks to Ringer Sarge for making this!
For the record, the late American actor Richard Boone voiced Smaug the dragon in the 1977 Rankin Bass cartoon. You can sample some of his bombastic, self-secure Smaug right here. Continue reading “What if Benedict Cumberbatch had voiced the Rankin Bass Smaug?”
