TORn’s annual Baggins Birthday Bash in Los Angeles this Saturday
September 18, 2018 at 3:51 am -It’s that time of year again, when SoCal Shire Folk gather together to celebrate the joint Bilbo and Frodo Baggins birthday on September 22. All gentlefolk are requested to gather at the Mineral Wells location within Griffith Park this Saturday beginning at Noon, and running until about 5-6pm. As usual, there will be good food,…
Join TheOneRing.net to party in New York!
September 17, 2018 at 2:57 pm -New York Comic Con is just around the corner; and TheOneRing.net will be there! We’ll have a booth at the Javits Center, where we’ll be selling tshirts and buttons, chatting with fellow fans, and giving out some amazing prizes… You can find us at booth number 1678, October 4-7. Be sure to come and find…
Graham McTavish on TORn Tuesday 12noon PT TODAY!
September 4, 2018 at 12:15 pm -Cliff and Justin are welcoming a very special guest to TORn Tuesday today – and they’re going live at an earlier time than usual, so they can have Dwalin himself, aka Graham McTavish, join them at the Scum and Villainy Cantina! Amongst the many topics the conversation will undoubtedly cover, McTavish will be revealing more…
Today in Middle-earth, September 2: In Remembrance of J.R.R. Tolkien
September 2, 2018 at 8:01 am -On September 2, 1973, we heard the sad news that J.R.R. Tolkien had passed away.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Fall of Gondolin’ published, finishes trilogy of great stories of Elder Days
September 1, 2018 at 10:06 pm -“The Fall of Gondolin,” — the third part of the J.R.R. Tolkien great trilogy of tales of the Elder Days — is now available in bookstores. This simple sentence should be a great delight to Tolkien readers the world over. Newly published Tolkien material in 2018, from The Professor, who died in September, 1972, is…
Hall of Fire chat tomorrow: The Great River
September 1, 2018 at 5:33 am -This weekend in The Hall of Fire, we return to our Lord of the Rings read-through as the Fellowship take to the Anduin River. ‘All together, paddle! ‘ shouted Boromir. ‘Paddle! Or we shall be driven on the shoals.’ Even as he spoke Frodo felt the keel beneath him grate upon stone. At that moment…
The Great Hall of Poets
September 1, 2018 at 1:40 am -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…
Games Workshop: Battle of Pelennor Fields
August 31, 2018 at 11:33 am -Games Workshop, Ltd. will be releasing a new game, Battle of Pelennor Fields, the first new boxed game in their Middle-earth line of tabletop miniatures games since their Escape from Goblin Town game in 2012, and their first self-contained Lord of the Rings product since 2005’s Mines of Moria.
DragonCon is upon us! And TheOneRing.net is there!
August 30, 2018 at 10:28 pm -I feel it in the water… I smell it in the air. The beast has emerged from its lair, and DragonCon is here again! Here’s what you can expect from Middle-earth fandom, and from TheOneRing.net, this weekend: We’ll have our usual ‘fan table’ in our normal spot, in the Hyatt hotel opposite the entrance to…
Graham McTavish chats with Sideshow Collectibles
August 30, 2018 at 9:59 pm -On Tuesday 28th August Graham McTavish sat down with Susan Damon from Sideshow Collectibles, to chat about all things geeky, and about his experiences playing some iconic roles. McTavish describes how, as a geek himself, he had to force himself to stay calm in moments such as knocking on a round, green door and watching…
Enjoy the LOTR EE Trilogy in theaters this weekend in the US
August 30, 2018 at 2:32 am -If you are still looking for something to do this Labor Day weekend, you might check out Regal Cinemas’ screenings of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films in their extended editions on RPX screens, in select theaters. The screenings run from Friday, August 31 through Thursday, September 6, and each day they change…
Newsweek’s Special Edition: J.R.R. Tolkien
August 26, 2018 at 10:48 am -Newsweek: J.R.R. Tolkien – Celebrating the Professor’s Greatest Creations [Media Lab Publishing] is on newsstands and store check-out lanes now. This is a beautiful, high-quality, glossy 100-page issue full of articles, information on both books and films, and many full-page photos. A wonderful collectible opening with an introduction by Shaun Gunner, Chair of the Tolkien…
Hall of Fire chat this weekend: Entwives and the Brown Lands
August 25, 2018 at 2:52 am -This weekend, Hall of Fire turns to one of Tolkien’s most enigmatic and mysterious creations — Entwives. ‘You never see any, hm, any Ents round there do you?’ he asked. ‘Well, not Ents, Entwives I should really say.’ ‘Entwives?’ said Pippin. ‘Are they like you at all?’ Entwives and the Brown Lands
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Balrog, Flame of Udun Bust Pre-Order
August 23, 2018 at 8:09 am -One of my favorite pieces from Comic-Con 2018 was the amazing Balrog bust that showed up Saturday of the show. I got to see this piece up close both as what you can order now and a pre-prototype. I have to say that I very much prefer what fans will be able to order. The…
Today in Middle-earth, August 22
August 22, 2018 at 1:00 am -The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on August 22: Bilbo fights off spiders (1341) They come to Isengard; they take leave of the King of the West at Sunset (1419)
Hall of Fire chat tomorrow: Farewell to Lórien
August 18, 2018 at 12:01 am -We return to our read-through of Fellowship of the Ring chapter discussions in The Hall of Fire this weekend to find the remaining members Fellowship faced with a difficult decision. “Now is the time, when those who wish to continue the Quest must harden their hearts to leave this land. Those who no longer wish…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Balrog Mini Epic Review
August 5, 2018 at 6:09 am -One of the new Mini Epics revealed at Comic-Con 2018 last month was my favorite creature within Middle-earth The Balrog. This guy has had me mesmerized ever since I saw it on the big screen, when I first saw The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I’ve got several collectibles of him…
The Great Hall of Poets
August 1, 2018 at 5:27 am -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…
Breaking news from Amazon – Lord of the Rings Original Series
July 28, 2018 at 3:36 pm -News just in from our friends at Amazon Studios – team JD Payne and Patrick McKay are on board to develop The Lord of the Rings Original Series. Here’s what the press release tells us: After a long process and extensive search, which involved going to Middle Earth and back, Amazon Studios is thrilled to…
“Gollum” on the brink of extinction
July 27, 2018 at 10:05 pm -No, it doesn’t reside in the depths of the Misty Mountains, or mutter “My precious, my precious…” in the dark. However, the possible fate of a particular toad from Malaysia, that gets its name from everyone’s favorite duplicitous, conniving, yet lovable, precious-coveting character from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is concerning scientists…