Carol Pinchefsky
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 9:41am
Image of the day: Handy flowchart helps ID all those Hobbit dwarves
Lord of the Rings stories
Trent Moore
Monday, December 10, 2012 - 5:50pm
Though it turned out to be one of the biggest film trilogies in history, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings series was a risky bet at the time. Fantasy didn't typically play that well, especially episodic series, and the budget required to pull off the trilogy was massive. Luckily, Jackson is a lot sneakier than we ever knew.
Dan Roth
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 3:22pm
Sir Derek Jacobi has a storied career, having put his stamp on nearly every major BBC program. You might know him best for having played The Master in season three of Doctor Who. Now, he says, he'd like to be in Star Wars—and his reasoning is pretty darn interesting.
Dan Roth
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 2:56pm
With The Hobbit's wide film release only a month away, the trailers are coming in fast and furious now. With each one, we get a little more of a taste of what this adaptation will be like. In this one, we hear a surprising amount of courage come from the mouth of one Bilbo Baggins.
Dan Roth
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 5:05pm
Balloon animals—they're pretty cool so far as stuff you usually get from a clown goes. Imagine, though, a dwelling of some kind, completely constructed out of balloons. Now imagine it's Bag End—because that's a thing that actually happened!
Trent Moore
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 1:26pm
It's an age-old question for fantasy fans—if some of J.R.R. Tolkien's most badass characters went toe to toe with their counterparts in Game of Thrones, who would win? Lucky for us, George R.R. Martin has been kind enough to break down the match-ups.
Trent Moore
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 12:57pm
You don't have to look much further than the numerous trailers for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit to see it definitely has the same vibe as his Lord of the Rings trilogy. But don't be fooled—Jackson says the two absolutely feature some major differences.
Trent Moore
Monday, November 5, 2012 - 2:24pm
After almost a decade of down time, J.R.R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth is coming back to the big screen, and the latest trailer for The Hobbit shows off all the Lord of the Rings-esque action we've been missing.
Dan Roth
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 5:58pm
Can we all agree that those safety videos at the beginning of a flight are coma-inducingly dull? We get it: put on your oxygen mask, head between the knees, and prepare to die. BORING! Give us something fun to watch like, say... Hobbits!
Trent Moore
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 9:17am
If nothing else, Sean Bean is really good at dying. He's made a career out of it on the big screen, and the Silent Hill: Revelations and Lord of the Rings star is really good at biting the dust in dramatic fashion. But he's done it so much, one of his most famous deaths didn't even make his personal Top 5. So what beat out Game of Thrones?
