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‘Hobbit Trilogy’: Evangeline Lilly Will Play a Pretty Sexy and Totally Unnecessary Elf

By Paul | June 5, 2013 @ 11:45 am

We've got a long journey ahead of us before The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug comes to theaters in December. Two whole seasons, even. When it finally does hit, there will be a fresh female face among the citizens of Middle-earth in the form of an elf warrior played by Evangeline Lilly. Entertainment Weekly released an exclusive sneak peak of her new, somewhat sexy fighting lady elf, Tauriel.

Wait. What? There aren't any female warrior elves in The Hobbit. Yeah, they've totally added a new character that never appeared in the books and basically only serves to sell more toys to girls. Which puts us nerds in the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, we do love us some Evangeline Lilly. On the other hand, why do they gotta mess with a classic?

Fine, Peter Jackson, pad your pockets, man. We're going to see whatever you put up there; especially if it involves sexy lady-elves.

EVANGELINE LILLY SOMETIMES PLAYS A SEXY BUNNY, TOO

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‘The Hobbit’ Author J.R.R. Tolkien Doesn’t Let a Little Thing Like Death Get in the Way of Cashing Some Royalty Checks

By Ian | January 10, 2013 @ 11:30 am

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JRR Tolkien is one of those writers with a fanbase that will eat up just about anything with his name on it. You could shove some dogshit on the street, slap it between two book covers and put his name on it and his fandom would say it's the most important posthumous work of his since 'The Silmilarrion'. And that's why it should come as no surprise that his estate is releasing yet another 'discovered' work forty years after the Lord of the Rings-creator's death. This spring, his unfinished epic poem 'The Fall of Arthur' will be released for sale.

But it's nothing new to capitalize on an author's name and success well past their demise. Publisher's are more than happy to release repurposed short story collections, unpublished works, new authors entirely, anything to keep the cash flowing. Sometimes it borders on the insensitive, not even listing that another author has taken over a deceased one's franchise. So to celebrate JRR's return, here are eight authors just as--if not more--prolific in the afterlife than they were here on earth.

Just in time for ‘The Hobbit’, It’s Honest Trailers: Lord of the Rings Edition (VIDEO)

By Ian | December 13, 2012 @ 12:30 pm

Honestly, Peter Jackson?

If 11 hours of The Lord of the Rings wasn't enough for you, starting tomorrow there's 11 more on their way when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first part of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy hits theaters. And not to be outdone, you can bet the boys from Screenjunkies were on the case to do their usual tweaking to fanboy favorites.

This time they took aim with their trailer editing skills to all three Lord of the Rings movies, showing exactly why the song 'I Would Walk 500 Miles' is a more than apt way of describing most of the action in all three movies. Enjoy.

Hobbit Vomit Is Our New Favorite Trending Topic Thanks to ‘The Hobbit’ Causing Motion Sickness #Hobbitvomit

By Ian | December 4, 2012 @ 11:30 am

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There are a lot of reasons to be excited for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. It's a movie made for anyone who likes adventure. Who likes fantasy. Who likes intense motion sickness. Yep, if you're pregnant, have a heart condition or have difficulty riding Batman: The Ride at Six Flags, chances are this movie is not for you. Early screenings of Peter Jackson's first installment of his new Middle Earth trilogy are apparently causing nausea and headaches to many of the viewers who find the 3D frame rate of 48 frames per second (twice the normal rate) the film was shot in difficult to watch.

The doubled frame rate is supposed to add more realism to the footage, much in the same way of the battle scenes in Saving Private Ryan, but apparently as one viewer put it, 'you have to hold your stomach down and let your eyes pop at first to adjust. This is not for wimps.' And another fan said the experience of the watching the movie was like 'having motion sickness similar to being on a rollercoaster.' And that's why we're pushing #Hobbitvomit on Twitter today. Because the only thing worse than a hairy-footed dwarf, is one that makes you throw up.

MORE MOVIES THAT MAKE US WANT TO PRAY TO THE PORCELAIN GODS

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One Word Movie Reviews: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

By Bill Swift | December 4, 2012 @ 12:39 am

Precious.

A Couple Reasons Why We’re Afraid of ‘The Hobbit’

By Gregory Wakeman | November 30, 2012 @ 1:14 pm

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Remember Frodo? Yes you do, the small guy with really hairy feet who was kind of annoying, but also pretty brave. Come on, he was in that movie series, The Lord of the Rings? Where he walked a really, really, really, really long way with his BFF, just to throw a piece of jewellery into a volcano. There you go.

It was good wasn't it? It was, trust me. Well, a prequel to his adventures revolving around his Uncle Bilbo is set to be released on December 14, called The Hobbit. You've probably heard of it, it's pretty big news.

I know it was almost been a decade since we last saw Frodo, Sam and their Fellowship, but we finally have a Hobbit movie to get excited about and it can only be good, right? Unfortunately, it might also suck. Here are 5 reasons why The Hobbit trilogy might ruin the Lord of the Rings' fine legacy.

Plenty of Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this Film

By Ian | November 20, 2012 @ 12:14 pm

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If The Lion King has taught me anything, it's that the easiest way to get over the death of your father is to sing a song with a bunch of woodland creatures about having no worries. If taught me anything else it's that all animals die, but that's just part of the circle of life. So when news broke that 27 animals died during the production of The Hobbit trilogy, my first thought was, 'Someone just find Elton John.' But apparently producers were aware that the farm the animals were being kept on in Wellington, New Zealand was full of unsafe conditions like 'bluffs, sinkholes and other death traps.' While this may sound like the world's most kickass petting zoo, to the ASPCA and American Humane Society, it sounds like Alicia Silverstone's worst nightmare.

Film-making can be dangerous. Brandon Lee was killed on-set. A stunt man died making Expendables 2. And Twilight was filmed--like I said, dangerous. So it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that every now and then some horses and sheep on a shoddy farm in Kiwi-town get sacrificed to the filmmaking gods in order to make three movies about a bunch of midgets with hairy feet that go on an adventure. So while it's always sad when an animal comes under harm, sometimes it happens.

So does The Hobbit's animal deaths compare to these other films that are probably not discussed at length at Natalie Portman's vegan dinner parties?