Hasta La Gadget!

We love books like The Hobbit because they really come alive in our hands. In this case, the book really comes alive with a fearsome paper Smaug leaping out from the pages.

Thankfully he can’t burn you, but he is dangerous. Just think about all of the papercuts this guy could give you. This fantastic work of art was created by DeviantArtist FarTooManyIdeas. The sculpture itself is amazing, but the fact that it is springing forth from The Hobbit book, just puts the icing on the cake.

If you look closely you will also see a tiny Bilbo peeking around the corner. Great work within a great book.

[via Nerd Approved]

Few things in all of geekdom hold as much promise and wonder as a geek with lots of time and lots of LEGO bricks. A couple LEGO builders named Alice Finch and David Frank teamed up to create a massive LEGO recreation of Rivendell from the Tolkien universe of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. The creation is massive and uses over 200,000 bricks in its design.

The builders performed research by carefully watching The Fellowship of the Ring in an attempt to put the entire city of Rivendell together. They say that research was required because it was hard to tell what scenes in the film happened where.

The massive finished model is intricate and beautiful with structures that sprout out of the rocks and lush greenery. Its builders say that one of the most challenging parts was getting the buildings into the landscape. They did the landscape first and added the buildings later.

The finished product is an awesome sight, and you can check out many more detailed images on their project’s Flickr page.

[via Brothers Brick]

If you are a fan of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, or if you are just like bearded wizards and staffs, have I got a product for you. ThinkGeek has unveiled a new full-size replica staff just like the one Gandalf uses in the latest film.

The staff is a licensed replica from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The staff weighs in at a hefty six pounds and measures 73-inches tall. It’s 1.5-inches in diameter where you grip it and 3.5-inches in diameter at the top. At its tip, it has a glowing “stone” set in knurled faux wood.

The staff ships in three pieces that have to be assembled, though it does include wood grained screw hole covers to keep the real wood look going. It’s made from a polyresin material and has LED lights, powered by three AAA batteries. The staff is available now for $159.99(USD).

It would be perfect for a teacher. They could stand at the front of their classroom, smack the staff on the ground and yell “You Shall Not Pass!”

If you fit into the piece of the Venn diagram between "Fans of The Hobbit," "Microsoft Users," and "Folks Who Have a 3D Printer," Microsoft and Warner Bros. UK have a treat: On December 13th, when the second Hobbit movie debuts, you’ll be able to download plans to 3D print your own souvenir: the Key to Erebor.

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Peter Jackson’s homeland hasn’t been too hot on UltraViolet until now, despite the cross-platform library tool’s growing popularity in the US and UK. That’ll change with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which is set to launch on DVD and Blu-ray in New Zealand on May 1st and will allow both Kiwis and Aussies to purchase the movie on disc and then watch it on PC, Mac, iOS, Android and hopefully even Xbox via a redemption code and a Flixster account in the cloud — with no DIY required. In wider UV-related news, the technology is also scheduled to reach France and Germany by the end of Q3 of this year, which should add a few names to the 12 million account holders around the world who’ve already used UltraViolet to watch 9,000 different titles.

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