Top 9 Ways to Celebrate Middle-Earth Day
So today is Earth Day, and that’s a fine and wonderful thing. But we are geeks, so we don’t need much of an excuse to take the celebration of a holiday to an extreme. We do this for the same ...
View ArticleRoads Go Ever On With Interactive Map of Middle-Earth
Check out this amazing interactive map of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, programmed by Kris Kowal. It’s like Google Maps for the Third Age of Arda; zoom, pan and even search (in English, Sindarin, Westron, et...
View ArticleMiddle-earth Midnight Madness
Earlier this week Warner Home Video and Best Buy co-sponsored Middle-earth Midnight Madness in Los Angeles, a countdown to the release of the new Blu-ray version of The Lord of the Rings The Motion...
View ArticleThe Hobbit: One Year and Counting (Down)
Exactly one year — 366 days in this case — from today will come our first opportunity since 2003 to return to Middle-earth in a new movie. It won’t be easy to wait, but we can feel secure in the ...
View ArticleWhy the New Star Wars Volkswagen Super Bowl Ad Is a Travesty
I was excited as the next Star Wars fan to get a sneak peek this week of the new “The Dog Strikes Back” Volkswagen ad that’s set to debut at the Super Bowl. Like the big hit of last year, “The ...
View ArticleWait — Atlantis Doesn’t Exist After All (Again)?
Updated seafloor imaging on Google Earth cleans up the artifacts that had people worked up about finding the lost continent.
View ArticleMarch Madness Comes to Middle-Earth
How would Gandalf match up against Treebeard in a slam-dunk contest? Or Aragorn vs. Merry and Pippin, one-on-two? (Don’t underestimate the feistiness of those hobbits.) Our friends over at...
View ArticleTop 9 Ways to Celebrate Middle-Earth Day (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
We've already covered the serious side of Earth Day today, so now we invoke the spirit of geekitude and take it to an extreme. So, then, how should Middle-earth Day be celebrated by its residents? We...
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