Got plans to be in New York City next year? Howard Shore’s score will get the 250 person orchestra treatment acconmpied by the flims April 2015.  at New York City’s David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. The films will be projected on huge screens set above 250 musicians, including a full symphonic orchestra, choruses, soloist, and conductor...

Hello Friends!  Welcome to the 8th edition of LOTRO Poem! How awesome was this welcome back week end? I levelled so many alts of mine that in the end my arms starting hurting. Casual Raiders didn’t do much raiding this week since everyone was so busy leveling but we did do a Draigoch run which was fun. i am so glad that we get to slay a dragon in game....

Hello Friends! Welcome to the 7th edition of LOTRO Poems! This week the Casual Raiders did Barad Guldur raid. It was awesome to do it again after a long time. So the Treasure Hunt started, did you guys get any cave-claws yet? I haven’t checked it out yet but I am planning on doing it tonight. I have just been so busy levelling up my alts and playing with...

Brotherhood Workshop has once again condensed pure excellence into a Lord of the Rings parody video using LEGOs.  Today’s video finally depicts just why it is a really bad idea to just take the eagles to...

On November 4th the Extended Edition Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray 3D of the second Hobbit film will be hitting stores. This new Extended Edition will include 25 more minutes of film footage and up to 9 hours of bonus features. You can look forward to commentary from Peter Jackson and Phillipa Boyens, the continued Appendices covering pre-production and filming of the...

A few days ago at San Diego Comic Con, Stephen Colbert hosted The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies panel. The panel included several characters from the film as well as its director, Peter Jackson.  There are a lot of great questions and answers in this panel and it also had the first public viewing of the teaser trailer that was officially released on Monday....

Not only did we get a new teaser trailer today, but we also got a new poster as well!

As promised the new teaser trailer was released today! It's finally here. Watch the exclusive new teaser trailer for #TheHobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies!https://t.co/oZXt3k98Nz — The Hobbit (@TheHobbitMovie) July 28, 2014 There is so much to talk about in this trailer! it looks to be quite the action packed movie.. and we see a quick glimpse of...

This has been a pretty bust weekend for Hobbit news with Comic Con in full swing. Warner Brothers just teased this via the official Hobbit Twitter. l View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Hobbit & LOTR (@thehobbitmovie) This is the same trailer that was shown at Comic Con (Only those at the con could see it). Are you looking forward to seeing...

Today on his Facebook page, Peter Jackson announced a new contest to bring a group of “ultimate fans” from around the world to New Zealand to tour the country and then watch the final Hobbit film with Peter Jackson himself. There aren’t a whole lot of details yet, but it seems there will be some kind of “challenge” to determine who...

My previous two Real Life LOTRO posts showcased the Hobbiton set under construction. But now we come to my most recent set of pictures from Matamata, taken just over a year ago now. After our very small wedding, our little wedding party took a trip and visited Hobbiton once again. At that point in time of course filming had finished and the set had been fully...

Today Peter Jackson shared the first poster for the third hobbit film on his Facebook page. This poster was released after several weeks of teases for “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” trailer that is expected to be released during Comic-Con, which starts tomorrow and runs through July 27th.

In my last Real Life LOTRO post, I showed you pictures from my first time ever visiting the wonders of the Shire. While under construction, it was still a glorious and emotional sight. However I’ve got even more construction pictures… this time with more progress! I returned to Matamata in November, which is late spring/early summer in New Zealand....

Registration for the third annual Mythmoot is now open.  Mythmoot is a yearly event hosted by Mythgard Institute. Mythmoot will once again be held at the BWI Marriott in Linthicum, Maryland which is not far from the  Baltimore-Washington International Airport.  The event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, January 10th and 11th, 2015.  As an attendee of the...

New Zealand is a beautiful country. But being a Tolkien nerd means that there are unique aspects of it that I get to appreciate like the film locations and studios. Over the past few years I’ve been to a number of these locations and have taken loads of pictures. This new article series will serve to share these locations with all of you since I know many...

Brotherhood Workshop is famous for creating LEGO parodies of fantasy and sci-fy themes. They return this week with a funny parody of the explosive scene in Isengard from the films. Wondering why you are seeing non-LOTRO things on LOTRO Players?  We have decided to make it our goal for our second year to still cover LOTRO first but we will also be expanding to...

The creator of the LOTRO parody “Rise of the Fellowship” is at it again with “The Rangers.”  “The Rangers” is an original fantasy web series that is trying to be funded right now on Kickstarter. “The Rangers is set in a world of high fantasy. It is a rich multi-layered and complex world, with it’s own mythos and lexicon...