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

Trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug arrives

Action! That’s all I can say after watching the first trailer of The Hobbit:The Desolation of Smaug. This particular trailer gives us those long awaited glimpses of Orlando Bloom as Legolas and the bad ass Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel. Yeah sure there are also glimpses of the dragon Smaug, but nothing too fantastic at least

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

Would casting someone of color in The Hobbit, help or hurt the film?

It was literally twelve years ago that Peter Jackson brought to us Tolkien’s world that most thought was too detailed and complicated to create. Since the release of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy in 2001, J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece has enjoyed an unprecedented range of success from dvd sales to conventions to toys and all