Third "Desolation Of Smaug" Trailer

Warner Bros. released a new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug that contains almost three minutes of new footage. See it below in HD:

The Hobbit: Journey To Lonely Mountain Strategy Game

WizKids will release The Hobbit: Journey to Lonely Mountain Strategy Game.  The game will include five figures on SwitchClix bases which can be used in the HeroClix PAC game.

Featuring head-to-head play and also up to 1 versus 3, players take on the role of Bilbo Baggins, Gollum, the Goblin King or Azog in this new twist on the epic tale of a Hobbit who stumbles out his door to a world of wonder and danger.  Acclaimed designer Eric M. Lang weaves elegant thematic game play with characters, scenes and events of the movie.  The game play is easy to learn, but the strategy provides immense depth of play for even the most experienced players.

Nazgȗl, Or... 'Kill Those Hobbits!'

Maybe you are like me.  You loved The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings when you read it.  You still enjoyed it when you read them for the third time.  Then...  came the movies.

You still liked the movies but you found that Frodo's frailty may have been exaggerated...  a lot.  That Sam seemed way too needy of Frodo, and that Frodo seemed way too comfortable with that neediness.

In fact, by the the time The Return of the King hit the theaters, you outwardly wished for the success of Frodo and his friends, but inwardly...  silently growing somewhere inside a small dark corner in your heart...  was the hope that Peter Jackson had prepared a surprise ending that deviated, oh, so little, from the original story...  a surprise ending where those two little walking mounds of frailty and neediness became Nazgȗl feed...

If so, on May 30, 2013, Fantasy Flight will be releasing the board game that you - and I - have been waiting for:

"The dark lord Sauron is pleased that you have... chosen... to champion the true destiny of Middle-earth. Some prefer the hopeless cause of men and their miserable allies. Theirs is a fool's choice! You show no affinity for such delusions. You seek glory for Sauron, and your rewards shall be great!

You are one of Sauron's most powerful minions: a Nazgul! You must work together with the other Nazgul to stop the cursed hobbits and destroy the resistance of men. But at the same time, you must strive to prove your own worth to the dark lord. After all, there are rumors that even the Witch-king can be killed, and Sauron may soon need a new leader for the Nazgul. 

In The Lord of the Rings: Nazgul Board Game, you are faced with three Campaigns that you must conquer before the Ring-bearer carries The One Ring to Mount Doom. If you cannot complete them in time, all players lose! Along the way, you will earn Victory Points; and if the group succeeds in its duty, the player with the most VPs wins!"