I can’t believe I’m uttering these words, but I honestly think I would have enjoyed The Hobbit movies more had there been only two movies (as first reported there would be—with An Unexpected Journey and There And Back Again) or even one. I wrote in my review of The Battle of the Five Armies that after the hour-long battle scene,…
In case you missed it, last Saturday Martin Freeman hosted Saturday Night Live, which brought about, among other great sketches, an epic mashup of his two best-known characters. As the entire world knows by now, Martin Freeman played Bilbo Baggins in the three Hobbit movies (the last of which was just released in theaters in this past…
This month I’ve been writing article after article saying how emotional the last Middle-Earth movie was going to be for me. I even came up with metaphors for how many tears were going to be shed. (Filling the River Anduin? I mean, come on.) Except that I did not cry tonight. This could be because, throughout the film,…
In 3 days, 19 hours and some odd minutes, I will be journeying to Middle-Earth #OneLastTime. I don’t know about you, but this whole #OneLastTime hashtag business is a pretty genius marketing scheme for The Hobbit. They aren’t going to let us forget that this is the last Middle-Earth movie, and they’re not going to…
It’s long been known that Stephen Colbert (my spirit animal) is a die-hard Silmarillion-reading Tolkien fan, but this week, the week before the last Middle-Earth movie, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, is released in theaters, and also the week before Stephen’s last episode of The Colbert Report airs on Comedy Central, Stephen did more to…
Really? Honestly? Seriously? I was already pretty emotional just with the anticipation for The Battle of the Five Armies, then the release of the audio track for this song happened, and then Billy Boyd had to go and make a music video? Do you get that I am running out of metaphors to describe the exaggerated flow…
I was already prepared to release all the H2O from my body through my tear ducts upon watching Battle of the Five Armies before this song was released. You know, because this is the end of an era so-to-speak, in that this is very likely the last film set in Middle-Earth for a very long time. (Peter Jackson’s…
Can it be next month yet? I want Battle of the Five Armies, like, yesterday. Released in 2001, 2002, and 2003, The Lord of the Rings movies were the must-see movies of my high school years. I was a senior in high school when The Return of the King was released. I saw it in…
On July 28th, while I was waiting for my flight to LeakyCon in Orlando, the Battle of the Five Armies teaser trailer was released. I tried my hardest not to show extreme emotions related to excitement as I watched the trailer on my phone. I think I succeeded, but barely. I mean, there’s so much to get excited…
We are about a month overdue for a Hobbit 3: Battle of the Five Armies teaser trailer (the Desolation of Smaug teaser trailer was released in June last year), but the general consensus has been that they (Peter Jackson and the other producers) were waiting until Comic-Con to release the teaser trailer. Well, Comic-Con is here! There’s no teaser…