This week, ForeverGeek posted our annual Movie Calendar, and this year, we selected 10 movies as our “Must See” picks for the year. Which is the one you’re looking forward to the most? Read more »
Weekly Poll: Most Anticipated 2012 Movie?
Tag Archives: The Hobbit
Weekly Poll: What’s Your Favorite Fantasy World?
In the pantheon of fantasy, there are gazillions of worlds encompassing everything from Dorothy’s Oz to the Greek mythology of Clash of the Titans to Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Sunnydale. This week’s poll presents five of the most popular fantasy worlds. Which is your favorite? Read more »
New Year’s Resolutions 2012
In honor of the new year, I humbly present 8 resolutions for things that we geeks desperately want (and don’t want) in 2012. Read more »
Lord of the Rings is Coming to LEGO!
I can die happy now. Warner Bros. and LEGO have partnered to create a line of brand new LEGO sets based on next year’s The Hobbit — and legacy sets based on The Lord of the Rings. Read more »
Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v 7
Politics, warfare, business, ecology, biology, and entertainment – this litany only scratches the surface of developments in geekdom over what’s proved to be a very eventful week. We’ve got the best morsels from the throng of news stories, so let’s get right down to business in this, our seventh installment of Wins and Fails This Week in Geek. WIN: Safe Shopping Following a New York Times article about an unsavory businessman who’s in essence gaming Google’s search rankings by garnering negative reviews about his retail operation through all manner of creative and repulsive means, Google have altered their ultra-secret algorithm to not reward back-linking points for bad reviews. So, this Read more »
Meet Peter Jackson’s Hobbit (and Dwarves)
It’s really happening, and here’s the proof: Peter Jackson has announced casting for his main Hobbit and eight of the Dwarves involved in Bilbo Baggins’ pre-Lord of the Rings adventure. Now as a geek and a storyteller, I worship the ground Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy walks on. It was the most perfect book-to-film cinematic production ever, in my estimation. But Jackson’s record since LotR has been less than stellar. King Kong was a bloated love letter to a favorite film from Jackson’s youth — which no one enjoyed nearly as much as he did. And while I have yet to see The Lovely Bones, it was universally panned by Read more »
An Open Letter to Lord of the Rings Fans Everywhere
Dear Everyone Eagerly Anticipating the Release of The Hobbit, I am writing to you today with a message of hope – a shining light in the perpetual dusk, burning brighter than Eärendil – in these, our darkest hours. I too remember where I was that terrible day when Peter Jackson announced that due to his battles with New Line, he would not be directing The Hobbit. I was unpacking groceries, and when the news broke, I put down my cans of Progresso soup and wept openly over my box of Saltines. Since that day New Line and PJ have reconciled their differences, MGM has come out to play, and The Read more »
