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The Hobbit Fan of the Week

Hobbit Fan of the Week, Rebecca, takes Fili, Kili and Thorin with her everywhere as custom handcrafted wearable plastic rings.

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

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Vote for Bilbo Baggins!

The Hobbit’s own Bilbo Baggins, is nominated for Best Hero at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. He’s up against some tough competition and needs your vote. Lets help him win!

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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The Hobbit Fan of the Week

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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Desolation of Smaug sneek peek

Here’s a fresh update from Peter Jackson on his Facebook page:

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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The Evolution of Thorin Oakenshield

Check out the evolution of Thorin Oakenshield and other character designs in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art & Design. The book is packed with more than 1,000 images of concept artwork, photographs and development paintings by the artists working behind the scenes to bring Middle-earth to life. Complied by Weta Workshop senior concept designer Daniel Falconer, this is the first in a series of hardcover books written and designed by the award-winning team at Weta. More info here: http://bit.ly/13HxJC6

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THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY on Blu-ray and DVD

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY is now available from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-ray, DVD and on Digital Download . All disc versions feature UltraViolet and more than 130 minutes of bonus content.

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Worldwide Live Event with Peter Jackson

Calling all Hobbit fans for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Peter Jackson will be answering fan questions online on March 24. Submit your question now for a chance at being answered by Jackson himself.

Submit your questions by creating a Vine video (vine.co/) and sharing to Twitter with the hashtag #AskPeterJackson, or visit The Hobbit Facebook Page and share the link to your YouTube video under the “Ask Peter Jackson” tab. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, March 19 at 11:59pm PST. More details are available at TheHobbit.com/sneak.

Hear the answers to the selected fan questions and get a sneak peek of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on March 243:00 p.m. EST/12:00 p.m. PST! For details on how to access this exclusive fan event, visit TheHobbit.com/sneak.