Sentences with phrase «from hobbit»

Magic Leap apparently won him over with a replica of Orcrist, the mythic sword from The Hobbit, and he refers to a «high - tech katana» out of Snow Crash, his best - known novel and one that's influenced decades of thinking about the internet and virtual reality.

«Guardians of Middle - earth provides an avenue for fans to experience memorable Middle - earth characters firsthand, including many from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey film,» said Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Production and Development, Warner Bros..

The most notable example of a depressing del Toro departure would be his exit from The Hobbit; after working on the film for two years, he left in 2010 order to attend to other existing long - term commitments.

LEGO The Hobbit is a great LEGO romp through several distinct locations from The Hobbit's two introductory tales of adventure.

The Bunker is ostensibly an FMV title, starring actors from The Hobbit and Penny Dreadful, but plays in a slow point - and - click style — you direct your character, John, through the titular underground setting, fighting against his memories to escape into a post-apocalyptic light.

Meaning, from New Zealand, that land Down Under most people know from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

5 Book Marketing Tips from The Hobbit — Jan Bear has written this clever post.

Evans, not really versed in this type of thing (even if you remember him from The Hobbit sequels), is agreeably charismatic and conceited as the film's slightly unconventional villain.

From 2010's departure from The Hobbit trilogy, the cancelled Frankenstein movie with Universal, the mothballed adaptation of Disney's Haunted Mansion, to the highly - anticipated At The Mountains of Madness.

A couple of days ago, Empire teased new shots from The Hobbit on this month's cover, and now Playlist gives us a look inside at the unadulterated images.

With just over a week to go until its release, we've got a batch of new images from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the final chapter in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy... The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield -LSB-...]

On the surface you may think a film could be fun with: The ER doctor from The Hangover, Thorin from The Hobbit, and Lori from The Walking Dead.

We have a new photo from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and you'll swear you've seen it before.

They feel like they belong in a different movie — they might be more at home in a silly fantasy alongside the eagles from The Hobbit.

«Misty Mountains (Cold),» which you might remember from the trailers, comes across quite beautifully, bringing back that sentiment of heartache and loss, making for an excellent stepping stone in Bilbo's transformation from hobbit hole shut - in to reluctant warrior.

I just got back from the Hobbit in LFR 3D.

Now, a team led by Christina Adler, a geneticist at ACAD, has found that standard sampling procedures could be responsible for the failure to get DNA from the hobbit and some other ancient specimens.

The film earned just 11.2 % less on its respective opening weekend than The Force Awakens, which is a smaller drop than even The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug -LRB--12.9 %) from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

In A Hobbit Journey, the reader has to plough through 17 pages of a rather diffuse introduction before Dickerson explicitly states the purpose of his book, and even then it is somewhat vague: it will explore the question «What can we learn from hobbits and from their vision of the Good Life, and how does that apply to our own present situation?»

He, Charles Oxnard of the University of Western Australia in Crawley, and RMIT colleague Benjamin Kefford found that published images and data from the hobbits «matched up» to those of cretins, who average 70 % of normal height.

Not exact matches

On his company's website, Richard Branson has a long list of recommended reading, which features everything from «Where the Wild Things Are,» to «The Hobbit,» to Maya Angelou's «I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings» — one of Bill Clinton's favorite books, too.

You can take a cue from the search engine giant and use a large sofa, or try smaller «hobbit hole» spaces such as enclaves with padded benches, acoustic couches, a long communal table for lunch or telecommuters, the modern version of old - school desk attachments to rolling chairs, and general seating that helps employees feel comfier.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

There might not have been any hobbits, but like many of Jackson's movies, the game could have benefited greatly from some judicious editing and shortening.

Today's eccentric item: How The Hobbit Learned Yiddish from Jewniverse.

This is never going to be a book that students of literature esteem as highly as others published in the same year, such as Auden and MacNeice's Letters from Iceland or Tolkien's The Hobbit.

His panic The Hobbit, the intelligent apes from the Planet of the Apes, and even God are all creatures created from people's imaginations, as far as we can tell.

That they went from being upset with the UFC and trying as hard as possible to get a fight with a hobbit and then trolled Edgar after for not accepting, but when it comes to Khabib they are all «aw shucks, Dana has a good point, maybe next time»

To keep from psyching himself out during the one - meter finals, Shaffer, a 23 - year - old UCLA graduate who was 0 for 15 in U.S. national championship finals, spent his time between dives reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

My husband dressed up as Treebeard (from Lord of the Rings) and Fuller, our son, was in the camouflaged baby Bjorn dressed as a Hobbit.

But later excavations that have dated more rock and sediment around the remains now suggest that hobbits were gone from the cave by 50,000 years ago, according to a study published in Nature on March 30.

Flakes were created with an average of about nine blows per tool from as far back as 100,000 years ago right up to the time of the hobbits» extinction.

That is the message from a strange Indonesian fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of the human family: Homo floresiensis, the hobbit people.

Or maybe hobbits had descended from Australopithecus afarensis — Lucy's kin — since that species was a highly adaptable biped that spread over great masses of African land.

FROM Beowulf to The Hobbit and Game of Thrones we all love a good dragon story.

A group now points out that the Hobbit's three wrist bones were shaped more like those of an ape than a human, suggesting that it did not branch off from human ancestors.

The team includes Thomas Sutikna of the National Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta and the University of Wollongong in Australia, who helped discover the «hobbit,» a small - statured human species from another Indonesian island, and he and Brumm are already excavating the caves near the newly dated art to search for ocher pieces, stone tools, and bones.

«It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to cross [from Flores to Sulawesi] without any means of boat or raft technology,» says van den Bergh — the kind of technology the hobbit is not thought to have mastered.

It's where the hobbits made tools, bringing in rocks from the riverbed below and chipping off flakes to cut and scrape with.

«There is still no ancestor - descendant sequence from Flores that supports body size reduction from a larger bodied H. erectus ancestor,» says Peter Brown at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who led the original hobbit excavations at Liang Bua.

Hobbits either evolved smaller brains or retained small brains after splitting from a much older Homo species in Africa.

You know, Lucy is believed to be ancestral to all of the later Australopithecines species and also our own genus Homo which includes everything from us to Neandertals, to the little Hobbits of Flores and, you know, we cover all of this in the book, and it's just incredible to see how much new information about all of Lucy's descendants has been uncovered in the past couple of decades, truly an astonishing period for paleoanthropology.

Wong: It is a really exciting time to be covering this field, especially with the discovery of the so - called Hobbits from Flores, the island of Flores and Indonesia.

Scientists are planning an attempt to extract DNA from the «hobbit» Homo floresiensis, the 1 - meter - tall extinct distant relative of modern humans that was unearthed in Indonesia, following a study that suggests problems in standard sampling methods in ancient - DNA research could have thwarted previous efforts.

In your interview with Richard Leakey, you report that he steps aside from the debate on whether Homo floresiensis — the «hobbit» — represents a distinct species.

The discovery of 17,000 - year - old Homo floresiensis — the «hobbit» — dispelled that notion, but many anthropologists look on H. floresiensis as an anomaly, isolated from the human — Neanderthal hegemony on the mainland.

Since then, however, the hobbit team has found fragments from nine different people on the island of Flores, leading them to believe even more strongly in their theory of insular dwarfism.

According to one prevailing but contentious theory, the hobbits descended from the larger Homo erectus, the first hominid to have modern human proportions, whose remains can be found on the nearby Indonesian island of Java.

They ruled out the hobbits being descended from Homo erectus because the former's jaw seemed more primitive than that of the latter.

In addition, the so - called «hobbits,» a short species known to scientists as Homo floresiensis, also may have evolved from other isolated humanlike species.