Ataahua sends along this cartoon from Kiwi cartoonist Tom Scott. Scott comments on The Hobbit, featuring Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Robyn Malcolm and Hellen Kelly.
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Thanks to lotrcrazy for this one, Parker and Hart have gone fully geek on ‘Wizard of Id’ today, take a look! More..
Nia writes: I was at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine, USA, a couple of weeks ago and came across a vendor selling hobbit holes! The company is Wooden Wonders. They have a facebook page and website. They were unbelievably beautiful and ornate. Just thought I’d share. wooden-wonders.com
johobbit from the SL journal team writes: Thank you to everyone for the encouraging and supportive responses to Silver Leaves Issue 3: Tolkien/Fantasy Art and Artists! Please join us on Facebook and give us your feedback and thoughts on this collectible issue. Let us know what your ideal Smaug would be like for The Hobbit movies or click on the ‘Discussions’ tab and tell us about your favourite dragon (or dragons, the more the merrier!), in or outside of Middle-earth. We’ll be printing your responses in Issue 4! Continue reading “Silver Leaves Issue 4 Call for Entries”
Can’t make it to New York City for the TTT Radio City Music Hall event? We invite you to stop by the TORn message boards where we’ll be hosting a virtual concert, giving you another way to celebrate and enjoy the great music from the LOTR films. The Virtual Concert will be conducted in four “Movements” — two on Friday, and two on Saturday. Each Movement will be in the form of a discussion thread covering several tracks from the TTT Original Soundtrack disk. So, break out your TTT Soundtrack disk and stop by to post a comment on your favorite tracks. We encourage our NYC-bound friends to drop in and share some thoughts on the Live Concert, too! The Virtual Concert will begin at noon EST Friday on our “‘Main” message board and will be available to participate in all weekend.
From Wired.com: District 9 scored last summer as a breakthrough sci-fi film that fused the mundane grit of a politically dysfunctional society with classic alien elements. Operating simultaneously as apartheid metaphor, personal drama and shoot-’em-up spectacle, the movie coalesced through an intensely creative collaborative process that was rife with trial and error.
As documented in upcoming book The Art of District 9, Weta Workshop practiced the design equivalent of Method acting. Beyond crafting cool-looking effects, artisans working under the direction of Peter Jackson’s go-to effects expert — The Lord of the Rings Oscar-winner Richard Taylor — embedded behavior and motivation into their freakish models of aliens, weapons and spaceships. More..