Post Tagged with: "Smaug"

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – June 8, 2014

Check out this awesome Frodo cosplay by Amouranth! She has a ton of pictures from her photoshoot over on her Tumblr, and every photo is spot on! (spotted by Middle-earth News contributor Myla) This post at […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – June 7, 2014

Check out this awesome Minas Tirith cake from The Cake Geek! This wedding cake turned out to be around 180 servings (so you may need more for your average hobbit party). They have pictures on […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – June 1, 2014

Gonzalo Kenny is a visual designer, focused on Digital Illustration and Fantasy Art, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has a number of pieces based on Tolkien and Middle-earth, but his portrayal of Gandalf and […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – May 29, 2014

You know what we can never get enough of? Silmarillion cosplay! Check out this awesome cosplay of Maedhros and Maglor from ACEN. There are more awesome pics of this cosplay and projects in the works at rattle-and-burn.tumblr.com. […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – May 16, 2014

This incredible Smaug bus was used for a “Russ” (Spring break shenanigans in Norway). The original Smaug artwork was created by Jeanette Brown, and the company responsible for spray painting the bus is Asker Farvehandel. […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – May 12, 2014

“An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth” started out as a weekly post here on Middle-earth News because we noticed that there were some Tolkien/Hobbit/LOTR -related stories that may otherwise have been overlooked in our news coverage. Happily, we […]

Choose Your Armor: The Finest T-shirts in Middle-earth

At Middle-earth News, we may all be Tolkien fans, but we have different ways of expressing our love of Middle-earth. Some of us like the good guys, some of us like the bad guys, and […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

Deviantartist Flocature’s (aka Catherine) newest project is this tiny Hobbit Hole under a glass globe. It is made of Super Sculpey, painted with acrylics, and attached to an adjustable ring base. Catherine promises that it will be available […]

Interview with Dave Clayton, Animation Supervisor at Weta Digital

Nic Healey of CNET Australia recently sat down with Dave Clayton, Animation Supervisor at Weta Digital. In the video interview, Clayton shared a number of fascinating tidbits about some of the Oscar-nominated visual effects in […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

Well that didn’t take long! Only days after Adam Brown, who plays Ori in The Hobbit, posted this selfie of the dwarves at HobbitCon, enterprising artist Leigh created the top image with all of their […]