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After beating a number of villains who could all be accurately described as human, clearly it's time that Oliver Queen faced something a little more... mythical. The CW's Arrow has found its Deathstroke, and he has prior experience as both a Spartan warrior and also a Middle Earth-dwelling orc warrior...

In the world of comics, the legendary Frank Frazetta is probably most closely associated with Conan the Barbarian and the occasional Molly Hatchet album cover, but it's his incredible work in fantasy illustration that catapulted him to fame...

Lego: Lego continues to tease its upcoming The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit lines with posters of Aragorn and Legolas. Heh. LEGOlas. Get it?... Sorry. Movies: Just in case you were worried, Judge Dredd won't be kissing anybody or taking off his helmet in the live action Dredd movie...

If you got tingly watching the trailer for Peter Jackson's first of two live action films based on J.R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, just wait until you get a load of Gene Dietch's recently uncovered animatic from '66 featuring the artwork of Adolf Born...

Lego has announced plans to release new building sets based on the Warner Bros. cinematic adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, plus WB's two upcoming films based on The Hobbit in 2012. That's right, short of whatever's in The Silmarillion (sorry dudes, TLDR), Lego basically has the right to make everything ever from Middle Earth as presented in Peter Jackson's movies... Rea

Movies: The official Captain America: The First Avenger website is now stocked with hi-res wallpapers featuring the film's cast of heroes and villains. Anime: A team of volunteers in Mibu, Japan are working to build a life-size statue of Mobile Suit Gundam antagonist Char's Zaku...

TV: iFanboy got its hands on David E. Kelley's failed Wonder Woman pilot and have a lot of nice things to say about the heart of the production (even though it's missing most of its special effects). Movies: If Facebook's good for one thing, it's letting Peter Jackson tell the world that Orlando Bloom will reprise his The Lord of the Rings trilogy role as Legolas the elf in The Hobbit... Rea

Illustrator Sam Bosma's got one series of Hobbit pieces to rule them all over on his blog. His ongoing attempt to capture the trolls and elves of Middle-earth has spawned some soft, frisky depictions of J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional beings, applying some original costume designs and playing around with their personalities...

While our partner blog TV Squad has John Scott Lewinski fighting his way through hordes of overweight Rorschachs and pre-pubescent Chun Lis we'd also like to highlight that Cinematical is in the house doing a bang-up job. The movie side of the annual pop-culture cavalcade opened with one of the biggest names in the history of film and what could very well be one of the biggest names in the future

Cinematical reports: While speaking to fans during Comic Con, Peter Jackson revealed that The Hobbit is much farther away than fans have been led to believe: "Everyone assumes we're casting but we're not," he said. Recently rumors suggested that Jackson (who's producing this time around while Guillermo del Toro directs) would use this time at Con to announce who would play Bilbo Baggins