“With the long-awaited release of a big budget, live-action The Lord of the Rings just around the corner,…
Continue Reading“With the long-awaited release of a big budget, live-action The Lord of the Rings just around the corner, fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s hugely popular trilogy are practically rabid with anticipation. With such great expectations placed upon them, you would think the people making the film might be just a tad overwhelmed by the pressure, the scrutiny, the Internet gossip… you would think.” [More]
Thanks to Ringer Spy Pippin Skywalker for that!
Thirty-ninth heir of Isildur; Ranger of Middle-Earth; King of the reunited realms of Arnor and Gondor. As a child, he was brought into the home of Elrond as the son of Arathorn but both his identity and lineage were kept secret, and he was known as Estel; Hope. Most like Isildur amongst all his heirs he was, and it was at Rivendell that he first saw his future wife, Arwen Undómiel, daughter of Elrond. This weekend, the Hall of Fire discusses one of the greatest men in the history of Middle-Earth, a leader who shaped the future of men and the first king under the Reign of Men in Middle-Earth.
Aragorn son of Arathorn, Estel, Elessar, Strider
Despite only having a section of the Lord of the Ring’s Appendices and a couple of pages in the Silmarillion dedicated to him, the story of Aragorn son of Arathorn could take up pages and pages in detail. An ambiguous and mysterious character throughout most of the books, only in the Return of the King did we see begin to see the true Aragorn, casting his Strider guise off like a coat.
But the War of the Ring is just a chapter in the book of Elessar Elfstone, his past and future a tale in itself. An heir of Isildur, the son of a slain father, the bearer of the forged sword of Narsil and the love of Arwen Undómiel. A man who walked the lands of Middle-Earth for years under the guise of Strider the Ranger, and a man who would become the first King of Middle-Earth.
This weekend, we expect a great discussion on the back of last week’s higest ever-attended Hall of Fire. Tolkien scholar or day-old fan, we want you to join us at one of our three discussions and find out just what it is that’s so great about the Hall of Fire!
Recommended Reading:
Aragorn Character Page >
The Lord of the Rings >
The Silmarillion >
Upcoming Discussions:
Oct 6 & 7: FotR Movie Discussion – Orc Breeding
Oct 13 & 14: FotR Chapter Discussion – The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
Oct 20 & 21: FotR Movie Discussion – The Cast
Oct 27 & 28: FotR Chapter Discussion – Lothlórien
Place:
#thehalloffire on theonering.net server; come to theonering.net’s chat room Barliman’s and then type /join #thehalloffire .
Saturday Chat: 7:00 pm ET (19:00) [also 12:00 am Sunday (0:00) BST and 9:00 am Sunday (09:00) AET]
Sunday Chat: 5:00 pm (17:00) AET [also 08:00 am (08:00) BST and 3:00 am (03:00) ET]
Sunday Chat: 6:00 pm (18:00) BST [also 1:00 pm (13:00) ET and 3:00 am (03:00) Monday morning AET]
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A male choir singing in dwarvish, a drummer from an Irish folk band and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra combined to make the soundtrack for The Lord Of The Rings films, it has been revealed. The details were released in an article on music for the $650 million project on American website E Online this week. [More]
TheMacObserver has a fantastic article on the journey of the Lord of the Rings trailer from format to format. From Quicktime to Real Media and back to Quicktime, the article (with some past TheOneRing.net stories as evidence) explains just why the rights to the Lord of the Ring trailers are one of the hottest properties in Hollywood today. [More]
[Dunno why the writer of this article thinks I’m a guy though. What did I do to give people that impression? – Tehanu]
The latest Time Out in the UK has an interview with Ian Holm (Bilbo) for his theatre run of Pinter’s “The Homecoming,”. [More]
Thanks to Timothy for the tip!
The latest Time Out in the UK has an interview with Ian Holm (Bilbo) for his theatre run of Pinter’s “The Homecoming,”which includes:
“Lord of the Rings is ‘very good,’ he promises. ‘Christopher Lee knew Tolkien, and is a devotee. He came out and said, “That’s Tolkien,” so you can’t get better then that. I like it because it’s not just a special-effects movie, it’s very performance-orientated, lots of good stuff in it. And yes, battle with 5,000 Orcs and the rest of it. I think it’s going to be a sort of landmark, really.’ He plays Bilbo Baggins, uncle to Elijah Wood’s Frodo, and wil also appear in the third film (the trilogy was shot conccurently at a budget of $300 million, or thereabouts). And what was Peter Jackson like? “A terribly nice little man, rather nervous with a bit of a stutter, thick black hair and extraordinary bow legs. He wore shorts and sneakers and would bicycle between one set and another and direct by cell phone. I don’t know how he did it.’
