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Available for Preorder: Limited Steelbox Edition with Bilbo’s Journal

While many are waiting for the Extended Edition for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, or even for a box set for the extended edition of The Hobbit trilogy, you might want to save […]

Happy Birthday, Benedict Cumberbatch!

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom, on July 19, 1976. That makes Benedict 38 years old today! Benedict grew up in London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with his […]

Sylvester McCoy Supports Children’s Charity

The British charity Barnardo’s has launched a Winter Stock appeal. Barnardo’s shops are in desperate need of quality Autumn and Winter donations. The charity has been launched now because it enables Barnardo’s to gather as […]

Paul Tobin on Concept Art, Concept Design, and Orcrist

According to Weta Workshop concept designer Paul Tobin, “Good design is in the broad strokes, great design is in the details.” In a recent article on Muddy Colors: A Fantasy Arts Collective, Tobin shared some […]

Deep Compositing: A VFX Method Whose Time Has Come

Deep compositing is a new form of both rendering and working with visual elements of a film. A recent story by FX Guide explained some of the techniques behind this increasingly important visual effects method. […]

Middle-earth and Strong Female Characters

With the creation of Tauriel in The Hobbit trilogy, the discussion of female characters within Middle-earth arose once again. In the last decades, various discussions, essays, and even entire books examined Tolkien’s creation and representation […]

Top Lord of the Rings & Hobbit Locations

Last month, Middle-earth News gave tips to explore Middle-earth locations in New Zealand. These tips and were based on personal experiences. Of course, there are many other The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit locations […]

The Colors of The Hobbit

Although we were in many ways in familiar territory when we first encountered The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2012, there were some striking differences between the look and feel of The Hobbit and that […]

Sony to Launch LEGO Hobbit Bundle for PS3

Last week, we provided a more in-depth report on the upcoming LEGO The Hobbit game, which is based on Peter Jackson’s films, rather than Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Sony has announced its launch of a LEGO […]

‘LEGO: The Hobbit’- News, Facts, and Interviews

April 8, 2014 is a date which fans of LEGO and The Hobbit movie trilogy have to mark in their calendars. The LEGO: The Hobbit video game will be released for Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii […]