“The Hobbit” might not be released in cinemas yet, but Gandalf the wizard and Smaug his fire-breathing adversary are already here in Tacoma’s North End, courtesy of a 10-foot fir stump and a creative chainsaw sculptor.
“The Hobbit” might not be released in cinemas yet, but Gandalf the wizard and Smaug his fire-breathing adversary are already here in Tacoma’s North End, courtesy of a 10-foot fir stump and a creative chainsaw sculptor.
Finished just two days ago, the sculpture of a bearded wizard battling a coiled, spiny dragon wreathes around the tall stump of a tree left behind in Ross Barde’s front yard at North 11th and Anderson Streets when a too-tall fir came down this summer.
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For those who simply cannot get enough of Middle Earth, Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” promises to be the ultimate Travel New Zealand miniseries. He and his “Lord of the Rings” team have taken J.R.R. Tolkien’s dense but slight and more comical “Rings” prelude, a simple quest to rob a dragon, and blown it up into a trilogy.
The trees, appropriately enough, brought Jeffrey Samudosky to Gig Harbor. The adventurer, traveler and now master wood carver arrived in town five years ago in search of Western Red Cedar. “It’s one of the better woods in the country to carve,” said Samudosky, sitting in his JMS Wood Sculpture showroom, just off Highway 16, surrounded by cedar creations. “And after all the time and effort you put into a carving, you want it to last a long time.”
Pasco police Wednesday afternoon arrested Manuel Preciado, 36, of Finley, in connection with a shooting in the 700 block of South Owen Avenue earlier in the day.
Police said a shooting victim walked into a Tri-City emergency room at 11:30 a.m. after having been shot in the back during an argument in his front yard. The wound was not life threatening.
Preciado was arrested in North Franklin County about 4:30 p.m. on suspicion of felony assault, police said.
When the man working at a medical marijuana dispensary in South Hill saw a chainsaw blade coming through the door, he ran out the back.
Come fall, the Chihuly chandelier in the University of Washington Tacoma library will have some competition in attracting visitors to the campus.
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