Friday at the Mathom-House: Nick Keller

Nick Keller is one of the concept artists that worked on TH:AUJ, and he has posted some of his Hobbit work (along with a lot of other great stuff) over at his website nickkellerart.com and shared it with folks at ComicBook Movie. Jump past the break to see some awesome artwork of warg riders, dwarves and lots of weapons and armor:

Bolg!

Hot off the press are three new images of Bolg, son of infamous Azog, courtesy of the Tolkien fan site Tolkiendrim.com. Jump past the break to see the other two images:

A Brief History of Wargs

All of a sudden they heard a howl away down hill, a long shuddering howl. It was answered by another away to the right and a good deal nearer to them; then by another not far away to the left. It was wolves howling at the moon, wolves gathering together!

-The Hobbit; Ch. 6: Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire

Goblins are bad . . . nobody quibbles about that; but goblins plus wolves? That's more than most anybody can handle. Even old Gandalf scrambled up a tree to get away from a pack of these fiendish beasts. Because these aren't just any old, garden-variety wolves . . . these are Wargs, sinister wolves that live in the shadows of the Misty Mountains and have long been allies of the goblins and orcs.

But just what exactly is a warg, anyways? Where did they come from and why--unlike most animals in Middle-Earth--are they servants of the Shadow? Read on past the break to find out!