DragonCon to Dissolve Tolkien’s Middle-earth Track
January 9, 2017 at 9:54 pm -DragonCon, the annual pop culture convention held on Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia has announced that there will no longer be a Tolkien’s Middle-earth programming track. Instead, any Tolkien-related content will be absorbed into other programming tracks, such as Fantasy Literature, Costuming, and Main Programming. This is a huge blow to the thousands of…
The death of Beleg. Is Túrin culpable?
January 7, 2017 at 5:33 pm -The usual Christmas and New Year shenanigans mean that in The Hall of Fire we’ve only just arrived at the ninth chapter of The Children of Húrin. It’s short, but crucial — climaxing with the death of Beleg. That’s not really a spoiler; the chapter is literally named “The Death of Beleg”. It’s a —…
Happy birthday, Professor Tolkien!
January 3, 2017 at 6:43 pm -On this date in 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein Africa. Over his long lifetime, he delighted readers and fans world-wide with his writings including essays, children’s books and his beloved novels, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, that center around a race of short, down-to-earth creatures who live, of all places, in (very nice) holes in…
Fellowship of the Rings 15th Anniversary Redux – TORn’s FotR Geeky Observations List
January 1, 2017 at 12:25 am -From the moment movie goers first experienced Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring, they couldn’t stop talking about every little detail no matter how small or obscure. In December 2001, one of TORn’s very brave Discussion Board members began collecting these observations on the LotR Movie Discussion Board and put them into a list. …
Fellowship of the Rings 15th anniversary: TORn staff share their memories
December 27, 2016 at 9:26 pm -It really was the best of times. Not just the opening night of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (or whenever you saw the film for the first time). What about when you first found out that Lord of the Rings films were being made? Maybe, like staffer Garfeimao, it prompted you to start…
The music of Fellowship of the Rings
December 26, 2016 at 9:04 pm -Due to the holidays, we’ll be continuing our stories related to the 15-year anniversary of the release of FOTR into this week. No series about The Fellowship of the Ring would be complete without mentioning the amazing music of Howard Shore and some of the talented people who brought it to life. From the minute the screen…
Today in Middle-earth, December 25
December 25, 2016 at 1:53 am -The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on December 25th: The Fellowship of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk (1418 )
The Great Hall of Poets
December 23, 2016 at 11:29 pm -Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each month we will feature a small selection of the poems submitted, but we hope you will read all of the poems that we have received here in our Great Hall of Poets. So come and join us by…
Shire Post Mint’s beautiful new Elvish Leaf Set
December 22, 2016 at 10:00 am -It may be a little late for Christmas shopping, but there are many holidays and celebrations at this time of year (and if you’ve been wondering about holiday gift ideas, we hope you’ve checked out our Holiday Gift Guide); and of course it’s never too late to treat yourself! So we thought our readers would…
Tourism New Zealand celebrates fifteen years of Middle-earth
December 21, 2016 at 2:15 pm -As part of the celebrations of the fifteenth anniversary of the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Tourism New Zealand has launched a new way to explore the country that has become, for many, the ‘real’ Middle-earth. They tell us: ‘To celebrate New Zealand being the real…
TORn staff reviews Fellowship of the Ring
December 21, 2016 at 12:57 am -In addition to the many fans that posted their reviews on TORn (see yesterday’s article: 15,084 Reviews and Counting), many of our core staff chimed in with reviews soon after FOTR opened. In this article, we bring you reviews by such well-known names as Xoanon, Tehanu, Quickbeam and Ostadan. All of them capture the magic…
Fellowship of the Ring: 15,084 reviews and counting
December 20, 2016 at 1:02 am -On December 18, 2001, TheOneRing.net introduced a new feature on our site: Ringer Reviews – “A database of reviews from Tolkien fans all over the world, whether you loved, liked or hated the film this is where you can express your feelings in words and celebrate with your fellow fans the release of the first…
FOTR 15th anniversary – a compilation of articles
December 19, 2016 at 10:31 pm -A number of other sites around the internet are also celebrating the 15th anniversary of the opening of The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring this week, and/or The Lord of the Rings movie franchise in general. For the convenience of our readers, we put together this one-stop shop for a stroll down memory lane….
The lasting significance of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy
December 18, 2016 at 5:29 pm -TheOneRing.net isn’t the only news site reporting on the 15th anniversary of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring this week. Leigh Blickley, Senior Editor at The Huffington Post, takes us on a bit of a walk down memory lane in her article that looks back at the many people and circumstances that came together to…
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – 15th anniversary!
December 17, 2016 at 8:09 pm -As hard as it is to believe for many of us, this coming Monday, December 19th, marks the 15th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring opening in theaters. To help celebrate, we’ll be looking back all this week at the news on TORN and other sites from before, during and after the release of…
Fighting Morgoth: The land of bow and helm
December 10, 2016 at 6:07 am -I’ve been recently re-reading Chapter VIII of The Children of Húrin in anticipation of our Hall of Fire chat tomorrow. One thing that particularly struck me is the invidiousness of Túrin’s position on Amon Rudh: whether he and his growing band of outlaws fight or hide, their prospects are grim. Beleg summarises the conundrum neatly:…
TOR.n’s Holiday Gift Guide 2016
December 5, 2016 at 10:49 am -Still wondering what to get the Tolkien fan in your life for the holidays? Let TheOneRing.net help! Staffers deej, Earl, Elessar, Kelvarhin, and Sarumann have compiled a list of some of our favorites.
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s 12 Days of Christmas
November 29, 2016 at 1:10 am -If you’ve been following our friends at Weta Workshop on social media, then you’re already aware of their current 12 days of Christmas promotion. If you haven’t been following them, make sure you start or you’ll be missing amazing events like this one. Weta is now into Day 8 of their 12 Days of Christmas….
Today in Middle-earth, November 23
November 23, 2016 at 1:00 am -The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on November 23: Battle of the Five Armies – 2941 (1341)
Happy birthday Christopher Tolkien!
November 21, 2016 at 7:01 pm -TheOneRing.net would like to wish a very happy 92nd birthday to Christopher Tolkien. Thanks to Christopher, Tolkien fans around the world have been able to enjoy the works of his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, beyond what lies between the covers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The devotion, integrity, and high standards he’s…