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Stephen Fry is going to be in The Hobbit!?
Edward Hardwicke (John Watson) dies. :( I just finished watching that series like a week ago!
Budapest Emergency Broadcast Service: Severe Flooding in Middle-earth
Hungary’s disaster management agency is testing the country’s emergency broadcast system with warnings of severe storms in Middle-earth, the fictional setting of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Messages broadcast Wednesday mostly on state radio and television are warning Hungarians about floods and catastrophic weather in Gondor, Rohan, Rivendell, Helm’s Deep and other locations inhabited by Hobbits, Orcs, Elves, Ents and Dwarves.
Officials say they chose Tolkien’s fantasy world because they don’t want to alarm people by mentioning real locations in the test and want to gauge how effectively the emergency messages reach Hungary’s youth.
Pictures of "The Silence" from Doctor Who running around London. The first one's my favorite: no reaction from bystanders. :P
Did you know there's a musical of The Scarlet Pimpernel? I'd love to see this...
The music's the best part of this:
Greatest NY Times correction ever?
It's amazing what you find on Wikipedia. The weirdest Greek pottery art ever: a huge serpent regurgitating Jason.
from this article
I can't remember if I posted this before or not, but: hipster LotR!
Fairies stop bulldozers. I wish I could use arguments like these to stop developers in my area!
And finally, an amazing video my dad sent me: how close to a train can you set up a vegetable market?
Edward Hardwicke (John Watson) dies. :( I just finished watching that series like a week ago!
Budapest Emergency Broadcast Service: Severe Flooding in Middle-earth
Hungary’s disaster management agency is testing the country’s emergency broadcast system with warnings of severe storms in Middle-earth, the fictional setting of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Messages broadcast Wednesday mostly on state radio and television are warning Hungarians about floods and catastrophic weather in Gondor, Rohan, Rivendell, Helm’s Deep and other locations inhabited by Hobbits, Orcs, Elves, Ents and Dwarves.
Officials say they chose Tolkien’s fantasy world because they don’t want to alarm people by mentioning real locations in the test and want to gauge how effectively the emergency messages reach Hungary’s youth.
Pictures of "The Silence" from Doctor Who running around London. The first one's my favorite: no reaction from bystanders. :P
Did you know there's a musical of The Scarlet Pimpernel? I'd love to see this...
The music's the best part of this:
Greatest NY Times correction ever?
It's amazing what you find on Wikipedia. The weirdest Greek pottery art ever: a huge serpent regurgitating Jason.
from this article
I can't remember if I posted this before or not, but: hipster LotR!
Fairies stop bulldozers. I wish I could use arguments like these to stop developers in my area!
And finally, an amazing video my dad sent me: how close to a train can you set up a vegetable market?