THEY SHALL NOT PASS!

Spotted just up the road from the office...oddly quite far away from Cable Street...but anyway, it's an interesting part of the history of this little bit of London...and it reminds me of The Lord of the Rings... ;)

Hilarious Fellowship...

...spotted this on a discussion thread of reasons why people weren't currently playing the (newly released game) Portal 2, after a few "meh, can't even afford to eat"'s and "know how you feel, man"'s this little variation on a meme popped up...it would have been even more hilarious if I hadn't had to clean my mouthful of tea from my keyboard and VDU right afterwards... ;)

Born of Hope - New Hobbit movie - Casting call

Well this is all quite exciting, a group of British film makers (led by writer/director/producer Kate Madison) are pursuing a "not for profit" project to make a motion picture rival to Jackson/Del Toro's "The Hobbit" inspired by a couple of paragraphs of Tolkien's (regarding Aragorn's parents) from the appendix of "The Lord of the Rings"...the exciting thing about it is the sheer number of people getting behind it to offer their support for free, props are being begged and borrowed without a fee, and all number of people are giving their time and resources for free, from make-up artists to all the actors (over 100 have lent their time and talents so far), filming is taking place in Epping Forest (near London), Bury St Edmonds (in Suffolk) and Snowdonia in Wales, so if you can cobble together an appropriate costume and get yourself to one of those locations you may be able to join in the fun as they are currently appealing for extras...!

Peter Jackson does "The Hobbit" - Christmas comes early!

Yes! Two new "Middle Earth" movies are confirmed, and under the firmly competent reigns of Mr Jackson...He is (from the sounds of things) splitting "The Hobbit" into two parts (which, while it may seem like a money-grabbing scheme on the part of the studio) under his careful "Exec. producer" role (someone else will likely direct) should turn out to be just perfect...the only shame is having to wait until 2010 to actually see the first part...! ;)

Andúril - Flame of the West...

...and what a pleasure it was to handle the legendary Flame of the West, forged in late December 1 III 3018 from the shards of Elendil's sword Narsil... ;)




...as well as to feed especially well with my sister and brother in law (not to mention a spot of leeching "après dîner")...