the-hobbit:

“The night I was cast, I went out and bought The Empire Strikes Back and Jaws. My goals were to get a voice as sinister as Darth Vader and the menacing physicality of the shark. It’s so easy to take these big beasts – these ferocious characters – and cook them at ten the whole time. But I wanted to have this circling, steady presence that would suddenly attack randomly. Peter allowed me to make a lot of adjustments. Being a Maori, in the scene where I’m beating up Thorin, I rocked back on my warg, raised my eyes up and did this look that in the Maori world is called ‘pukana’. You show the enemy the whites of your eyes. It just happened instinctively and at the end of the take I said, “Peter, I think I pukana-ed!” I didn’t think he’d use it, but sure enough, when I went down to the premiere with a bunch of Maori friends, there it was.”

Manu Bennett on the process of creating Azog

“There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber.”

chmchm:

notmadeofbeef:

improvisedchronicles:

a youtube user shares an opinion

 #can we get this on the cover of a book  #like one of those opinions from writers

The reason Photoshop was invented

This will always and forever be hilarious.

We Bagginses were very well thought of. Never had any adventures or did anything unexpected.

flurgaburglarhobbit:

Over to the left we have my piles and piles of gold, and on my right, more piles of gold.

mycroftknowsbetter:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. It was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

dramatis-echo:

I love the piano. I love the cello. I also love the score from LoTR and The Hobbit. Mush all that together, and you have a beautiful piece from The Piano Guys [x].

margaerytherose:

Reasons to love Thranduil:  Fatherhood;

” They [elves] had few children, but these were very dear to them. Their families, or houses, were held together by love and a deep feeling for kinship in mind and body; and the children needed little governing or teaching. “

“Legolas Greenleaf, long under tree; in joy thou hast lived …”  (Galadriel)

Screencap Meme - Green
↳ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

For there were other Elves of various kind in the world; and many were Eastern Elves that had hearkened to no summons to the Sea, but being content with Middle-earth remained there, and remained long after, fading in fastnesses of the woods and hills, as Men usurped the lands. Of that kind were the Elves of Greenwood the Great; yet among them also were many lords of Sindarin race. Such were Thranduil and Legolas his son.

Lee Pace/Thranduil in The Desolation of Smaug’s sneak peek

a dark power has found its way back into the world