The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Pulls it All Together
The final, epic trailer for the last Hobbit movie is here. Wow.
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The Desolation of Smaug (With Tweets)
Eight months later, GeekMom Sarah finds her love of dragons exceeds her dislike of franchises and settles in with The Desolation of Smaug.
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Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Chronicles: Art & Design
Are you looking for a last-minute gift idea for your favorite Tolkien-fan-geek? Look no further than your favorite bookstore for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Chronicles: Art & Design
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: A Visual Treat
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a visual treat. However, if you have read the book, prepare yourself for some divergent plot lines, such as the introduction of Legolas and Tauriel.
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Latest Hobbit Production Video Released
See the latest production diary from Peter Jackson on the set of the second part of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition: Overstuffed
The Hobbit Extended Edition has 13 extra minutes but it’s the real treasures are in the appendixes.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer Released
The official trailer for the December 13 release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is now out there in the Internet-verse. Watch it, analyze it, love it, hate it. Let’s hear talk of spoilers, good and bad adaptation decisions on the part of Peter Jackson & Co. And whatever else you want to discuss.
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New Ancient Greek Action Novel Sons of Zeus
Noble Smith is a cool guy. He’s an award-winning playwright, video-game writer, documentary-film executive producer, and the former media director of an international human rights foundation. AND he’s also the author the brand new action/adventure novel Sons of Zeus.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Tauriel the Elven Archer
Ever since I wrote those articles about the archery in Brave, The Hunger Games and Avengers , I get random email, Twitter and Facebook messages from people pointing out archery in other movies, TV shows, comics, cartoons and videogames and asking what I think, and the latest to cross my screen is a note inquiring about the new elf character played by Evangeline Lily in the second installment of the Hobbit saga.
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New The Hobbit Video Blog Released
With less than six months to go until the next instalment of Peter Jackson’s epic expansion of Tolkien’s other famous book hits the screens, the first production diary video for The Desolation Of Smaug (technically the 11th overall) has been released. It starts off with some bad news for fans regarding Comic-Con, but continues with more fascinating glimpses into the world of Middle-earth movie making.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer Explained
The trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second of Peter Jackson’s planned trilogy of Hobbit movies, is out. The movie itself comes Dec. 13. But here’s what secrets the trailer seems to reveal.
Continue ReadingWhy The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Didn’t Creep Me Out
From my point of view, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a far better film than any of The Lord of the Rings films. I know this is a contrarian opinion, so let me explain.
Continue Reading6 Gripes About The Hobbit That Aren’t About the 48 fps
I liked the movie. I did. But I liked it in the same guilt-inducing way that I might really like good fan fiction. It had old friends, it was familiar, it played to my most beloved hopes and dreams concerning hobbits and dwarves and adventures.
Continue ReadingHobbit Week: A Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is perhaps the most expected journey audiences will go on this year. We’ve all been madly waiting to venture back to Middle-earth — back to Peter Jackson’s cinematic version of Tolkien’s world. The anticipation, and …
Continue ReadingHobbit Production Diary 10 Showcases the Wellington Premiere
The new Hobbit production video is up!
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit Production Video No. 9 Released
Fans of The Hobbit! We are being treated to another episode in the multi-part series of production videos from Peter Jackson, director of The Hobbit.
Continue ReadingBilbo’s Last Song, Revised
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is due out in theaters in a month, launching Peter Jackson’s vision of the opening bars of the tale of the titular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. It seems like an excellent time then to take a …
Continue ReadingNew “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Trailer Looks Amazing
The much-anticipated new trailer for Peter Jackson’s first film in the new Hobbit trilogy has hit the web today. Unlike the previous trailer that focused pretty tightly on the Dwarves and setting them up as individual characters, this one is …
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit Trilogy Announcement Gets Mixed Reviews
Some more updates about the shocking (or predictable) news I wrote about yesterday here on GeekDad that The Hobbit will now be released as a trilogy of films.
Continue ReadingPeter Jackson, Please Film The Silmarillion: A Fan’s Open Letter
The Silmarillion offers more epic filmmaking than The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings combined. One fan thinks Peter Jackson should take up the challenge.
Continue ReadingRumors of Third Hobbit Movie Confirmed
The rumors have been confirmed. The two-movie plan for The Hobbit has been changed, uh, mid-stream. Make room in your movie-going schedule and expectations for a Hobbit trilogy.
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit Production Video #8 Is Live
For those of you keeping track at home, here’s the eighth in Peter Jackson’s series of production videos from The Hobbit, giving us crazy sneak peeks of his time at Comic-Con, sets and shooting, as well as other goodies. …
Continue ReadingNew Hobbit Banner Reveals Clues to Movie Adaptation
This scrollable banner advertisement from The Hobbit has been bouncing around the Internet over the past 24 hours. Its very size (above is just a portion of it), and the fact on the original image you can move a magnifier …
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit Production Video #7 Is Live
For those of you keeping track at home, here’s the seventh in an on-going series of production videos from The Hobbit. This time around, Peter Jackson and friends give us a tour of the Stone Street Studio. As always, all …
Continue ReadingWhy the Hobbit Trailer Creeps Me Out
When I first saw the Hobbit trailer, I was pretty excited. My inner fan-boy erupted with a huge roar of approval. So much of it is right: the dwarves, Martin Freeman as Bilbo, comedy, a cool battle with the trolls, …
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit Teaser Trailer is Here!
I’ve been a fan of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings since I was very small. My dad is a huge fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, to the point that he actually wore out his hard cover copies of the trilogy. So one of my favorite memories is sitting on the edge of my dad’s chair […]
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit: The First Trailer Is Here!
The first trailer for the first of Peter Jackson’s two-part film adaptation of The Hobbit, subtitled An Unexpected Journey, is out. And it’s just as brilliant as you’d hope and expect, even if it doesn’t do a lot more than …
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit: One Year and Counting (Down)
Exactly one year — 366 days in this case — from today will come our first opportunity since 2003 to return to Middle-earth in a new movie. It won’t be easy to wait, but we can feel secure in the …
Continue ReadingWaiting for The Hobbit: White Council Attacks!
If you are desperately waiting for the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (December 14, 2012), you probably avidly follow the news on the official Hobbit Blog and you know, by example, that the second film will be titled The Hobbit: There and Back Again (the title of Tolkien’s book and Bilbo’s own manuscript) […]
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit Has a Cast — and a Very British One
Peter Jackson’s two-part movie of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, set to start filming in February, may not have a firm filming location — but it finally has a cast! There are still several important roles to be filled, but with Bilbo …
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