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.
Continue ReadingEight months later, GeekMom Sarah finds her love of dragons exceeds her dislike of franchises and settles in with The Desolation of Smaug.
Continue ReadingAre 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
Continue ReadingWith the release of the second Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug, comes the latest insane offering from the LOTR Project—-Six Degrees of Sauron, which shows the connections between characters in Tolkien’s works. Users can type in two characters from Tolkien’s vast legendarium and see the chain of who-knows-who. Perfect for the next time you need to sneak into a Mordor night club.
Continue ReadingWith the new Hobbit film The Desolation of Smaug almost upon us, there also comes some rather tasty Lego. Here are two of four kits for your eyes to feast on; we’ll have the final two soon.
Continue ReadingLast week marked the release of a new, fancy, illustrated version of Tolkien’s beloved classic The Hobbit. And we’re giving away three free copies, thanks to the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Continue ReadingThe 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.
Continue ReadingEver 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.
Continue ReadingThe 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.
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