During Comic-Con this year you heard me mention a couple of times that Weta Workshop would be coming back to do 1:6th statues for The Lord of the Rings. Tim Launder General Manager of Weta Limited last night via The Shadow and Flame Forum announced who had been selected as the first character in the line. This character was one of the characters not done in statue form during original The Lord of the Rings statue line so fans are going to be pleased with this announcement. After years of waiting fans are finally going to be able to add a Faramir statue to their collections. Now, the question becomes will we see the Ranger Faramir or Faramir in his Gondorian Armor? As details come along from Weta we will let you know and maybe before the end of the year we might even get a good look at what is sure to be an awesome statue.
Tag: boromir
Sometimes things just snowball.
So, in the name of procrastination and work avoidance, here’s another (our last, honest!) Tolkien-style parody of a Taylor Swift song. This time we’re riffing off a little tune (you may have heard of it) called We are never, ever getting back together.
This parody is 90% the sterling work of Barlichatter Elanesse — particularly the quite tricky verses. I just provided the backing vocals, as it were. Continue reading “Another Taylor Swift parody: We are never ever beating Sauron together”
As part of the month-long Fantacular celebration, Sideshow Collectibles has posted a interactive showcase of their entire The Lord of the Rings Legendary Scale Bust Collection. Hidden next to Aragorn is an item we have not seen before – and well, the Horn of Gondor sorta gives it away! We’ll probably see a preview for this piece in the next Sideshow newsletter. Follow the link to see the full Legendary Scale Bust collection and the new tease of Boromir. If you want to start your collection, the Aragorn and Legolas pieces are currently available as instock. [LOTR Collection]