Pastry Chef Kirsti Hanna created this almost completely edible cake. She writes: “The biggest challenge with this cake…
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Pastry Chef Kirsti Hanna created this almost completely edible cake. She writes: “The biggest challenge with this cake was the beacon. I used squares of cake to make the box, then had lots of fun icing around the sides and shaping it. Then I cut out the center. Everything, except the candles and the two figures, is edible. Even the rocks (chocolate with a candy coating) and the big rocks/hills in back (air-brushed angel-food cake).” Wow! [See Larger Photo]
Hobbit_guy writes: Millikin University is offering a class on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. The class, known as “Lord of the Rings: Myth and Culture” will study Tolkien’s work and the sources and legends that influenced it in a historical setting. Taught by Professor Erick Parker, this class promises to be a most enjoyable addition to my schedule – if I can get into it! There’re only 30 seats available, and more than half are already taken. [More]
From Comicbookresources.com: “Yahoo’s Upcoming Movies has some casting news on the Robert Rodriguez-helmed adaptation …. Also listed without character credits [is] [… yadda …] Elijah Wood. Early shooting with Hartnett and Shelton is already underway.” [More] [Yahoo Movies Sin City Page]
From Digitalproducer.com: “Jackson talks about making the trilogy, working with DP Andrew Lesnie, and some of the groundbreaking effects in the final film in the trilogy, The Return of the King.” [More]
From Canada.com: “Hobbits, wizards and orcs are helping draw so many tourists to New Zealand that travellers are about to vanquish dairy farmers as New Zealand’s No. 1 export earners.” [More]
Mithfiniel wrote that she’s found another yet another comic reference to LotR, in the strip Sylvia. [More]
