New trailer and banners for The Hobbit ups the visual ante

It’s interesting when you can base the closing of the year around the release of The Hobbit or, used to be, Harry Potter. Maybe it’s the elves…no I’m positive, it’s the elves or it could be the Celtic/ Druid myths surrounding dragons and wizards. Either way…pale face white people with pointy ears are a shoe

Peter Jackson talks The Desolation of Smaug and takes questions from viewers

Only 9 more month’s before we get to see part two of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, The Desolation of Smaug. As always he’s been blogging about the film’s goings on, but this time he takes questions from some viewers, most notably Steven Colbert, whom I had no idea is a total geek. The blog contains

Wanna visit The Green Dragon Inn from The Hobbit? Now you can!

Has anyone named New Zealand the geek capital of the world yet? If not, someone needs to go on ahead and do that damn thang, cause they’ve gone and turned another Hobbit movie set piece into a real functioning facility. I found this bit of news out via Firstshowing via Nerd bastards via Slash Films

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 13 Minute featurette

Just seven more days left until Peter Jackson unleashes the fourth installment of the Middle Earth stories The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I’ve been watching the production blogs and post that show up often on their official Facebook page and I just have to say one thing… “the people behind the marketing of The Hobbit

Stream The World Premier of The Hobbit live in New Zealand at 6:50 PM (PST)

If your not doing anything at around 6:50 PM today you should tune in to the World Premier of The Hobbit live from the red carpet in New Zealand. Expected to be in attendance, the cast and crew of The Hobbit along with a special performance of the song “Song From The Lonely Mountain” from

New Zealand issues legal tender in honor of The Hobbit

We learned via MTV GEEK that New Zealand is issuing a set of coins, that can be used as money (in NZ of course) and that they all contain characters from the new Hobbit film. This of course isn’t the first time New Zealand has celebrated the geek, in fact a few months ago they

New Hobbit trailer arrives and it’s amazing!!

Man…December 4th can not get here soon enough. This latest trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is chock full of new images, environment’s and monsters, but still no Smaug. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to most of our readers who have been following the Middle Earth shenanigan’s. According to Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch