Id you’ve wanted to create your own custom desktop or mobile wallpaper, Twitter skin or Facebook cover or a profile icons, Warner Bros. is making it easy over on their wallpaper generator site.
They’ve stitched together all three of their Hobbit tapestries (one for AUJ, one for DOS and one for BOTFA).
You just hone in on any section you want (although be warned, at full zoom there is a noticeable fall-off in resolution quality — and an increase in jagginess — on some sections) and crop out your desired image.
You can also download the image in full if you so desire. It is a pretty neat Triptych, I have to say. Just click the image below to visit WB’s special site.
Want to see The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies a little sooner than December 17th? Movie theaters around the U.S. will be hosting a Hobbit Trilogy marathon on Monday, December 15th. The trilogy is to be shown in IMAX, and tickets go on sale Friday, November 14th. Tentative showtimes are: An Unexpected Journey theatrical edition) at 1:00 p.m., The Desolation of Smaug (theatrical edition) at 4:05 p.m., and The Battle of the Five Armies at 7:00 p.m.. Check with your local theater to find out if they’ll be participating and for pricing information.
Saruman by John Howe. Christopher Lee has precisely one line in the recent trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, but his little cameo was an unsurprising winner with fans. And, apart from reinforcing that stuff is always better with Chris Lee (maybe Chris can do all the voices for BOTFA — that would be ace!), it also sparked a surprising amount of speculation about Saruman’s intentions in desiring to confront Sauron alone.
Now, we can’t say how the confrontation occurred in canon: we know little more than that the White Council put forth its strength, that Saruman played an important role, and that Sauron deliberately withdrew as he had anticipated and planned for the actions of the Wise. Had Sauron, in fact, already fled? It’s a legitimate interpretation of the texts. However, Tolkien’s writings are a lot more informative about when Saruman “left the path of wisdom”. In this feature, Tedoras examines what The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The Silmarillion have to tell us about Saruman’s fall.
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A little earlier today, Hall of Fire took a detour into movie-land to pull apart the brand-new trailer for The Battle of the Five Armies.
If you missed the discussion, or found the messy first hour very frustrating (sorry about that, it was unusually difficult to direct discussion), then here’s the log from the final two once we got a system going and started analysing what Peter Jackson put in front of us scene by scene.
Hope you find it illuminating.
Oh, and usual warning for movie spoilers over the page!
30 seconds not enough for you? Perfectly understandable. So for those of you who want just little bit more of a taste of Howard Shore’s final score in the Middle-earth Saga, iTunes has granted your wish.
I’m not much into box office chest beating, but IB Times has done some interesting number crunching on The Hobbit versus The Lord of the Rings.
Turns out that if The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies hits $942 million US, the total take for the Hobbit films will top that of Peter Jackson’s three The Lord of the Rings films.
Id you’ve wanted to create your own custom desktop or mobile wallpaper, Twitter skin or Facebook cover or a profile icons, Warner Bros. is making it easy over on their wallpaper generator site.
I’m not much into box office chest beating, but IB Times has done some interesting number crunching on The Hobbit versus The Lord of the Rings.