The Hobbit Blog http://www.thehobbitblog.com The official blog of THE HOBBIT movies Fri, 17 May 2013 19:12:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Periodic Table of Middle Earth http://www.thehobbitblog.com/the-periodic-table-of-middle-earth/ http://www.thehobbitblog.com/the-periodic-table-of-middle-earth/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 19:10:19 +0000 The Hobbit Team http://www.thehobbitblog.com/?p=12003 Chemistry would have been a lot easier if the Periodic Table of Middle Earth was used! Arranged according to race, this Periodic Table replaces elements with earthly characters from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

To find out more about the Period Table of Middle Earth click here.

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View the job posting here.

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]]> http://www.thehobbitblog.com/new-zealand-home-of-middle-earth/feed/ 10 The Hobbit Fan of the Week http://www.thehobbitblog.com/the-hobbit-fan-of-the-week-3/ http://www.thehobbitblog.com/the-hobbit-fan-of-the-week-3/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:12:06 +0000 The Hobbit Team http://www.thehobbitblog.com/?p=11663 Hobbit Fan of the Week, Julia, brought Hobbiton to life in her own backyard. Made out of clay, these five Hobbit-holes light up at night. Do you think Bilbo will stop by to borrow a cup of sugar?

Submit your images for a chance to be featured as the Hobbit Fan of the Week here.

 

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He couldn’t have done it without you.  Thanks for voting!

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The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age challenges players to take up arms alongside the greatest heroes of the Third Age, including select characters from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey like Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Radagast and more. Gamers are charged to lead an army of Elves, Dwarves or Orcs in fast-paced tactical combat and band together with thousands of other players to join powerful alliances and wage an epic war online.

The free-to-play game is inspired by The Hobbit Film Trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson and is available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. In addition to Facebook, the browser-based game is available on Facebook.com, Kabam.com and the Google Chrome Store.

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Submit your entries to become The Hobbit Fan of the Week here.

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Simply hashtag #votebilbo on any photo or tweet on Instagram and Twitter to cast your vote.

Keep checking back to see who’s winning here.

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Nothing can stop a Hobbit fan, not even the weather. Hobbit Fan of the Week, Teja, made the best out of a blizzard and built her very own Hobbit Hole. Bilbo will be visiting shortly.

Show us why you should be The Hobbit Fan of the Week! Submit your photo for a chance to be featured! http://on.fb.me/1280ckh

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Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Live Event last week. I’ve never done anything like that before, and I was pretty nervous. Hope it was ok.

If you saw it, it was a pretty accurate picture of what life is like at the moment. Jabez and I sit in that editing room all day, every day, editing the second Hobbit movie, and we actually start on the third next week! A lot of that movie was shot nearly a year ago, so I’m looking forward to seeing it come alive, shot by shot in the cutting room. It’s like assembling one of those complex 2000 piece jigsaw puzzles.

For us, this is really the being of 2013, so I look forward to posting a bunch more stuff as we work through the year.

I think that an edited version of the Live Event is being made available over at the official Hobbit site, and Warner Bros have kindly let me post a 6 min excerpt here, to give everyone who missed it a sense of what it was like.

Cheers,
Peter J

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