Archive for October, 2008

LOTR Online: Mines of Moria - The Waterworks

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Gaming

Today Turbine unveiled a new video for The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, the first expansion for the award-winning massively multiplayer online game, which will release ... Read more..

John Howe’s Journal: Many Meetings

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Fans, John Howe

Or the Ins and Outs of Tolkien Fandom John Howe writes: Meeting Tolkien fans is invariably an engaging experience - occasionally delightful, sometimes moving, often a little scary - but ... Read more..

Happy Birthday PJ!

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Peter Jackson

Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for directing The Lord of the Rings ... Read more..

TORn on ‘Fictional Frontiers’ This Weekend

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Guillermo Del Toro

TheOneRing.net will be providing a segment on this Sunday's broadcast of 'Fictional Frontiers with Sohaib,' on WNJC 1360 AM, Philadelphia at 11AM ET. This week, Sohaib will again be speaking ... Read more..

New Developer Diary Video for LOTR: Mines of Moria

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Gaming

Today Turbine unveiled a new developer diary video for The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, the first expansion for the award-winning massively multiplayer online game, which ... Read more..

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Pushed into 2009

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Gaming

From 1up.com: Originally planned for a December 15 release, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest will now ship January 9, 2009 internationally and January 13, 2009 in the U.S. ... Read more..

Today in Middle-earth, October 30

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Calendar, Today in Middle-earth

The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on October 30: Bilbo finds and opens the Secret Door (1341) Bilbo descends to Smaug's Cellar, steal a cup and returns (1341) The hobbits rest in ... Read more..

New ‘Mines of Moria’ Game Screenshots

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Gaming

Today Turbine released a new batch of screenshots for The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, the first expansion for the award-winning massively multiplayer online game, which ... Read more..

This Just In: ‘Hurin’ Paperback & ‘Realm’ Reprint!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Alan Lee, Books & Publications, Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, Merchandise, Tolkien

The folks from Houghton Mifflin sent us along review copies of 'The Children of Hurin' paperback and the reprinted edition of 'Tales from a Perilous Realm', now featuring artwork ... Read more..

Essay: The Magic of Faerie Stories

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien, LotR: Book, Return of the King, The Two Towers, Tolkien

Claudia Riiff Finseth contacted us a while ago offering her articles on Tolkien, here is her second article 'The Magic of Faerie Stories'. Riiff Finseth is a freelance writer and author. ... Read more..