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After receiving a nomination for the Costume Design Guild in the category ‘Excellence in Fantasy Film’ last January 7, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies received another nomination, this time for the British […]
In case you didn’t already know, Weta Workshop recently released an amazing Smaug the Terrible statue that is available to pre-order on their site; you can find more information about it here. Creating this statue was a team […]
Today at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time (that translates to 2:00 p.m. EST, 7:00 p.m. GMT, and 8:00 a.m. NZDT), the Smaug the Terrible figure from Weta Workshop will go on sale for pre-orders! From Weta […]
There are good news for the Middle-earth fans all around the world, because Weta Cave expands itself in a new area that is twice the size of the original cave! The museum arm of special effects production […]
One of the highlights for me at New York Comic Con was definitely the Weta Workshop booth. The first day, I didn’t even buy anything because the choices were so overwhelming! I wanted everything. They […]
Congratulations to the winner of our Feast Week/Tolkien Week Limerick Contest! We had 71 spectacular entries for this competition and it’s been quite difficult choosing the winner. Here is the one limerick that stood […]
For those of you attending New York Comic Con next week, that’s right I said next week, there will be some Tolkien-themed panels and exhibitors you definitely don’t want to miss. Unfortunately there are not a […]
In honour of Tolkien Week (and Feast Week), Middle-earth News is holding a Tolkien-inspired Limerick Contest. The rules are simple and anyone is free to participate. This is your chance to write a limerick on anything Tolkien […]
The amazing folks over at Weta Workshop just released another shirt for the second installment of The Hobbit trilogy and this time it features our favorite greedy and merciless dragon, Smaug. Before you get it in your head that this is just […]
Weta Workshop has officially begun accepting preorders for their highly anticipated book, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Chronicles – Art and Design. This will be Weta’s fifth book in their impressive Chronicles series and their first book focusing solely […]
