Post Tagged with: "Weta"

You Can Now Own Kili’s Runestone!

Thanks to our friends at Weta Workshop, you can now be the proud owner of Kili’s runestone! Earlier this year, Middle-earth News was the first to decode the Dwarvish runes engraved on the frontside of […]

Weta’s New Postcards from Middle-earth

Whether you feel like your home is in the Shire, Rohan, Gondor, Rivendell or any other location, Middle-earth is a place where we have all dreamed about living. Through The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films, that world was […]

Book Review – ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Chronicles: Cloaks and Daggers’

My most vivid memory of the experience I had watching Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring for the first time was thinking, with each new set, each new location, […]

Weta Workshop at New York Comic Con 2014

New York Comic Con recently announced that Weta Workshop will have their own booth! You want to buy official The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit products? You got it. NYCC attendees can expect to see limited edition collectibles, prop replicas, art […]

Facebook Auction for Bofur Statue from Weta

Following Weta Workshop on Facebook comes with a lot of perks: you get to keep up with all of the latest news, see photos of their amazing products, and now? Now you have the chance […]

New Nori the Dwarf Collectible Statue from Weta

Weta Workshop just released their newest collectible figure from The Hobbit trilogy! Brother to Dori and Ori, Nori has one of the most unique designs of all the dwarves and it shows beautifully through this statue. Nori […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – May 13, 2014

In case you missed yesterday’s inaugural daily post, we’ve decided to turn “An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth” from a weekly post to a daily post! We noticed that there were so many Tolkien/Hobbit/LOTR -related stories making headlines that it only seemed […]

Weta Workshop’s ‘Cloaks and Daggers’ Book Now Available for Preorder!

Weta Workshop took to their Facebook page this evening to announce they have officially begun accepting preorders for their highly anticipated book, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Chronicles – Cloaks and Daggers. This will […]

Hobbit Tales from Wales Comic Con: The Panel

From  The Hobbit panel at Wales Comic Con we learned that Graham McTavish has a collection of prosthetic noses categorised by dwarf, that rolling resets (when a whole scene is acted again rather than cut) becomes […]

Weta Digital on Virtual Cinematography

Weta Digital has just released this brand new video providing new information about how virtual cinematography helped shape The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. They provided the following description to the video: On their quest […]