Fantasy

This week’s releases include a handful of books that continue several different series- from Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental Masters series to Daniel Wilson’s follow up to Robopocalypse, to the collaborative efforts of Stephen Baxter and Terry Prachett’s in their Long Earth series. Standing out among the crowd, however, is perhaps George R.R. Martin’s edited collection Rogues, which features 21 original stories by authors like Neil Gaiman, ...

Finding movies with Great Dads was actually a challenge. Standard plots seem to be: “Terrible father learns to be a slightly better father,” “Child learns to overcome what an a-hole terrible father was,” or “Child avenges death of father regardless of father’s reputation or back story.” But there have been some really great dads in the movies in a lot ...

A Glimpse of James Potter: For Father’s Day In 2008, J.K. Rowling wrote a short, short glimpse of the life of James Potter and Sirius Black. The piece was published online by the UK bookstore, Waterstone’s (and can be seen written in her own hand) and is set three years before the birth of Harry.  It was written for charity and ...

From DreamWorks Animation, comes the sequel to the beloved tale of a boy and his pet dragon – How to Train Your Dragon 2! “From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” comes “How to Train Your Dragon.” Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida ...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This Sunday was the season 2 finale of Vikings. I am going to miss it, can’t wait for season 3 to arrive. They started shooting season 3 on the 30th of May after one week of preparation. In the preparation we saw new clothes, horse riding and new jewellery even I saw and heard things There is a new cast ...

Jay Johnstone, Legendarium’s Head of European Operations, continues with his HobbitCon adventure in this very emotional interview continuation with Royd Tolkien. Royd Tolkien talks about his brother living with diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and how it’s prompted a feature documentary Royd is trying to get produced called “There’s a Hole in my Bucket” where the brothers ...

Game of Thrones Shocks Again by Andrea R. Cooper I have just finished watching the latest episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones – The Viper and the Mountain. It shows many developments as well as holds up George R.R. Martin’s love of shocking his audience. *Spoiler Alert* – this article contains spoiler information The duel between the Viper, Oberyn Martell, ...

Jay Johnstone, Legendarium’s Head of Europeon Media Operations, talks to Peter Hambleton (Gloin), Graham McTavish (Dwalin) and Stephen Hunter (Bombur) while at HobbitCon 2014 in Bonn, Germany. HobbitCon follows the explosively successful HobbitCon 2013 by popular demand. 2014 will be even larger in scale, filled with special guests, celebrities, expert panels and lectures. The Maritim Hotel will be transformed into ...

New Zealand Adventure: From Rivendell to Mirkwood by Rachael Ashdown Legendarium reporter, Rachael Ashdown, continues her adventure across New Zealand visiting all things “Middle-Earth”! Day 4: Evil Things Did Not Come Into That Valley The fourth day was full of adventure to stimulate that Took side of me. Morning involved a trip to Zealandia, the nature preserve in the heart ...

Hogwarts is Here, There, and Anywhere (with an Internet Connection) by Robyn Stone-Kraft Truthfully, I’m cutting class to work on this. I’ve got exams this week, and I’m still a few weeks behind in several of my Hogwarts classes. Fortunately, I’m only a first year, so I have a lot of freedom to work on assignments at my own pace. ...