For Father’s Day 2017, fill Dad’s brain with something new. Whether Dad wants more jokes, more trivia, or wants to geek out, a book is always a great gift for Dad. Here are 6 perfect choices for any Dad.
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The details of a Hobbit Day library storytime/party, with food, costume, decorating, craft, and game ideas. Note: it doesn’t really work for kindergarteners.
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Love ‘Dungeons & Dragons,’ ‘Lord of the Rings,’ and humor? Check out ‘DM of the Rings’ by Shamus Young.
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Last month I found myself spiraling down an internet hobbit hole. Leonard Nimoy had passed (LLAP), and I was surfing the web reminiscing about a man that was aptly described in a tweet as “every geek’s grandfather.” But what does this have to do with hobbits?
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Anyone who has seen The Hobbit remembers that scene in Bilbo’s house when the dwarves start singing that low, gorgeous song. It’s called “Misty Mountains,” and by listening and singing along, we’re getting ready for the final movie!
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With 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.
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Since you’re reading GeekDad, you’re likely at least considering going to see The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Here are 9 things parents (and everyone else) should know about the film.
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I’ve been internally debating whether it’s better to go wide or go deep when it comes to Geekery. Is it better to dabble, trying dozens of games and books and projects? Or is it better to seriously commit to one thing — Python, let’s say — and immerse ourselves in it fully?
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Some days ago, we announced a contest to give away three copies of a new, fancy, illustrated version of Tolkien’s beloved classic The Hobbit. Now we can announce who won. Get out your goblins bongos of war and let the drum roll begin…
And the winners are:
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An elaborate Lego version of Rivendell debuted at BrickCon 2013, delighting conference attendees and Tolkien fans.
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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.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles II gets behind the scenes of the creation and special effects that transformed actors into Tolkien creatures.
Continue ReadingA fantastically-visualized timeline of the “life” of The One Ring (to rule them all) from J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories. The graphic covers both time, geography, and possession in a gorgeous layout. Well done!
Continue ReadingI 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 ReadingI first found the Lord of the Rings when I was twelve years old and was so obsessed with Tolkien’s world that I did a book report on The Simarillion in eight grade. I never expected them to be made …
Continue ReadingThe new Hobbit production video is up!
Continue ReadingFor my nephew, I made this Mine of Moria-themed cake, which I managed to put together in about two hours. Making this monstrosity, about 12″ x 18″ in the end, was actually not that hard, and as you can see, …
Continue ReadingFans 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 ReadingThe 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 ReadingYou have some spare time. You’re a balloon artist. And you really like The Hobbit. So you make a replica of Bag End. Of course!
Continue ReadingWhen September 22 came around on Elendor, it was A Very Big Deal. Frodo and Bilbo’s Birthday was one of the highlights of every game year.
Continue Reading“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends” is what the writer Joan Didion once said about her experiences traveling to a new land (in her case, New York City). It’s also true …
Continue ReadingA fellowship of four geeky gamers embarks on an epic journey to overcome impossible; odds, win the game, kiss the girl and put the villains in their place. If this sounds a little like The Lord of the Rings and …
Continue ReadingThe 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 ReadingViggo Mortensen, in Boston on March 5 to accept the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Coolidge Award, leads the audience in an impromptu sing-along of a song in another language. No, not Spanish or Danish (two languages he happens to speak). Elvish. …
Continue ReadingUpdated seafloor imaging on Google Earth cleans up the artifacts that had people worked up about finding the lost continent.
Continue ReadingPeople sometimes ask if I have advice about writing. What works? What tips and tricks can you teach me? “Do you know what you’re going to say before you sit down to say it?” they ask. “Do you know where …
Continue ReadingWhen 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 ReadingExactly 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 ReadingJ.R.R. Tolkien was a remarkably talented man, and famously provided a set of his own illustrations for his 1937 novel The Hobbit, though of course many editions have added those by other artists. But it wasn’t until the publisher HarperCollins was …
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