Happy Birthday To Lee Pace!
Happy birthday to actor Lee Pace who plays Thranduil in The Hobbit! Here are some of the highlights of 1979, the year of his birth: The US Voyager 1 space probe had just revealed the […]
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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 […]
Philippa Boyens Talks about ‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’
Philippa Boyens, co-writer and producer of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films, certainly has an inside track on what fans can expect of The Hobbit: There and Back Again, to be released […]
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 […]
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 […]
Peter Jackson Sends a Message to Reece
Peter Jackson has sent Reece Puddington a video message! Readers will remember that, back in February, we reported on how 11 year old Reece Puddington had created a bucket list, for Reece is seriously ill with cancer neuroblastoma. One […]
Building a Better Dragon
“Truly, the tales and songs fall utterly short of your enormity, oh Smaug the Stupendous.” In his encounter with the dragon Smaug in the deep halls of Erebor in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, […]
Jackson’s Chapel Is Now Refurbished
Our Lady Star of the Sea Chapel, a former Catholic chapel built in 1924 in Seatoun, New Zealand, was closed in 2002 due to earthquake concerns and it was removed from the list of heritage buildings so […]
Hobbit in top 10 digital movie sales/rentals of 2013
A few weeks ago, Rentrack, the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, announced the top ten digital movie purchases and rentals of 2013. Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was No. 5 […]
‘The Hobbit’ Tops the Saturn Awards Nominations
Congratulations to the The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug for gaining eight nominations for the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films 40th Saturn Awards. The Hobbit, together with Gravity, topped the list for the […]
