Fun movie, best of the trilogy, not a moment of boredom. Great action, lots of Elves, drama, tears, what's not to love?

However.

King Thranduil the Exceptional and Impressive, Most Splendid and Feared Ruler of Mirkwood, King by the Valar's Grace, Ruler of 2000 Years, Shining Star of Greenwood The Green, Fairest of all Elven Lords, Light of the Dark ( Read more... )

Angelina Jolie looks absolutely fantastic. Design by Loki! And the Lana Del Rey cover - perfect!

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... otherwise I'd be a wee bit worried about Mr. Gillette!


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Benedict Cumberbunny as Julian Assange. There isn't enough bleach in the world... he looks like a hipster wraith (ok, so does Assange, but still...)


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Erestor had pointedly ignored the last three heavy sighs coming from the direction of Glorfindel's favourite seat. When the fourth interrupted yet again his concentration, he put the quill carefully aside, sanded the paper in front of him and looked up.

"Pray tell, what ails you?"

Glorfindel held up the letter he'd been reading.

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Here it comes, for the fifth but hopefully not last time:

Joyful Molly’s traditional Yuletide Contest!

Supervised by Mr and Mrs Snowman, this is your chance to win a most splendid Christmas parcel!

“Pray tell, what may we win?”

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT!

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THE NEW "HOBBIT" TRAILER IS OUT!

Woohoowheehee! How awesome is Thorin?! And IMLADRIS! Oh, how I've missed you, fair Rivendell! But of course, my personal highlight was...


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The latest production video is online! I can't tell you how very much I'm looking forward to that movie; watching the production videos brings back so many memories of all the great times I had in the LotR fandom. Happy days!

There are some screencaps behind the cut; not very spoilery. And you can catch a glimpse of Mirkwood the Great in the video! ( Read more... )

On 12 August 2012, it will be five years that we provide the world with information on Irish actor Damian O'Hare's work. Which just goes to show that ideas conceived at 3am after a pub crawl don't necessarily have to be bad (though we're glad we didn't go for calling the site "D'Oh!")

Running such a website is only fun if the fans to go with it don' ( Read more... )

If I say that I've "waited ages" for that movie to be made, I'm not exaggerating. The first Marvel comic I've ever read was handed to me by my oldest brother back when I was seven years old, and as much as I hate to admit it: that was indeed ages ago. It was a German copy, of course - "Die Ruhmreichen Rächer" No. 50 (no idea what the US number was ( Read more... )