Via the Desolation of Smaug 2014 Calendar and the Annual, check out these interesting new images of Bard and his daughters. As the Annual explains, in Peter Jackson’s adaptation, Bard at the time of the events of The Hobbit has a son, Bain, and two daughters, Sigrid and Tilda. Continue reading “Bard the Bowman, his daughters and their outfits”
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There are a few movie spoiler images. In particular, if you’re avoiding Bear Beorn, you’ll want to look away now. We’ve previously covered the spoiler contents of the book. If you’re interested in those, check out this post from last month. Continue reading “New images from and review of The Desolation of Smaug 2014 Annual”
Artwork for the Lego Lake-town chase set has been around for a while.
The set, which has just five mini-figs — Bard the Bowman, Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, a Lake-town Guard and the Master of Lake-town — also features several Lake-town buildings, and a boat. I’d forgotten about it entirely until Ringer Sander recently reminded me of the existence of the Lake-town Chase set. Looking over the artwork again, I got thinking about the significance of that boat and exactly what this Lake-town chase might be, and its relation to what we saw in the trailer itself. So, from here on in, we’ll be talking about movie spoilers! Continue reading “Spoiler analysis: Lake-town Chase Lego set and the Hobbit trailer offer some story deviation clues”
If you’re a bit of a completist (like me), you’ve probably been waiting on clean artwork for ALL the banners that debuted last week alongside the trailer. So, here they all are in high-resolution for your viewing — and desktopping — pleasure. Download and enjoy. Continue reading “Clean artwork for all five new banners for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
Here’s high-resolution clean versions of the Hobbit artwork that has just debuted today on the official Hobbit website. Download and enjoy. We think they make great desktop artwork! Continue reading “Elves! Dwarves! Hobbit! Brand-new artwork for The Desolation of Smaug”
We know that The Necromancer has a big role to play in The Desolation of Smaug. But just how big will it be? Will Dol Guldur be a relatively minor affair involving only Gandalf and his fellow wizards? Or will other key actors of The Hobbit be somehow drawn into the struggle in the south of Mirkwood?
In this feature, Ringer Captain Salt assembles what we know already form various actor blog posts, video logs and magazine articles and tries to tie it all together. Continue reading “Analysing the role of The Necromancer in The Hobbit”