-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Tag Archives: middle earth
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
Orc body suits to go along with over 10,000 Orc heads. They built 10,000 real arrows and 500 bows. They even created a new kind of crossbow for the Uruk-hai that could fire faster. Principal filming took place between October … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged academy award, aragon, bafta, boromir, christopher lee, elijah wood, epic fantasy, fantasy, fantasy movies, frodo baggins, gandalf, gimli, ian mckellen, john rhys-davies, lord of the rings, lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring, lotr, middle earth, miramax, movie review, movies, new line cinema, peter jackson, saruman, saul zaentz, sean bean, the fellowship of the ring, viggo mortensen
10 Comments
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy went through a number of production difficulties, which I wrote about in my previous Hobbit movie post. To sum it up, it involved late director changes, shooting with an incomplete script, and spreading the original plan … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy., movie review, movies
Tagged balin, battle of the five armies, bilbo baggins, cate blanchett, dwarves, elrond, elves, epic fantasy, fantasy movies, galadriel, gandalf, goblins, guillermo del toro, hugo weaving, ian mckellen, ken stott, legolas, martin freeman, mgm, mgm studios, middle earth, movie review, movies, new line cinema, orcs, orlando bloom, peter jackson, radagast, richard aritage, smaug, sylvester mccoy, the hobbit, the hobbit: battle of the five armies, thorin
5 Comments
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
In my previous Hobbit movie post, I teased that the production behind the Hobbit movie trilogy was a mess. It’s time to discuss exactly how much of a mess that was. Because of the massive success that was the Lord … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged balin, benedict cumberbatch, bilbo baggins, dragon movies, dragons, dwarves, evangeline lilly, fantasy, fantasy movies, fran walsh, gandalf, guilleromo del toro, hobbits, ian mckellen, jrr tolkien, ken stott, lake-town, legolas, martin freeman, mgm, mgm studios, middle earth, movie review, movies, necromancers, new line cinema, orcs, orlando bloom, peter jackson, phillipa boyens, richard aritage, smaug, tauriel, the hobbit, the hobbit: the desolation of smaug, thorin, united artists, wizards
5 Comments
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
My introduction to Lord of the Rings was a multi-step process. I remember reading The Hobbit in school way back in grade 5, and we also watched the animated movie from 1977. I remembered nothing of the book for years, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged andy serkins, balin, bilbo baggins, dwarves, fantasy, fantasy movies, gandalf, goblins, gollum, hobbit month, hobbits, ian mckellen, jrr tolkien, ken scott, lord of the rings month, martin freeman, middle earth, movies, new line cinema, peter jackson, radagast, richard aritage, the hobbit, the hobbit: an unexpected journey, the shire, throin, trolls, wizards
6 Comments
healed1337 