Archive for July, 2011

Join us LIVE from Comic-Con 2011

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 Posted in Casting Rumors, Director Rumors, Headlines, Hobbit Cast News, Hobbit Movie, Lord of the Rings, LotR Movies, The Hobbit, TheOneRing.net Announcements, TheOneRing.net Community, Tolkien, TORN TV

TheOneRing.net will be streaming LIVE from San Diego Comic-Con 2011 and we hope you will join us! Starting at 10AM PT on Thursday, we'll broadcast (or attempt to!) our entire ... Read more..

Orlando Bloom NZ Bound

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 Posted in Casting Rumors, Hobbit Movie, New Zealand, Orlando Bloom, The Hobbit

Kalypso sends this in: According to the August 2011 edition of InStyle Magazine (Australia), Orlando Bloom is headed to New Zealand shortly to film his scenes as Legolas. Attention NZ Ringers, ... Read more..

Today in Middle-earth, July 19

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 Posted in Calendar, Today in Middle-earth

The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on July 19th: Bilbo's lost in the caves (1341) Riddles in the dark (1341) Bilbo finds the dwarves and the wizard (1341) The Company is trapped in ... Read more..

Nesbitt (Bofur) Suffering from Deep Vein Thrombosis?

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 Posted in Casting Rumors, Hobbit Movie, James Nesbitt, The Hobbit

The Sun is reporting that actor James Nesbitt, Bofur in The Hobbit films, may be suffering from DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis). As we learned from PJ's second production video, Nesbitt ... Read more..

Deleted Tweets Indicate Possible UK ‘Hobbit’ Set Guests

Monday, July 18th, 2011 Posted in Hobbit Movie, Locations Sets, Rumors Spy News, The Hobbit

TORN Staffer Earl let me in on the Holmesian detective work of our own message boards and its regulars. According to the message boards, Derren Brown and Marc Hagan-Guirey (both ... Read more..

Time Names Gandalf #3 Most-Beloved Wizard

Monday, July 18th, 2011 Posted in Ian McKellen, Lord of the Rings

Mariamante sends along this link to Time's 'Top 10 Most-Beloved Wizards' list, our very own Gandalf makes #3. As if being a wizard wasn't already cool enough, Gandalf is actually two ... Read more..

Weta Workshop – A Single Dream

Monday, July 18th, 2011 Posted in Richard Taylor, WETA Workshop

An unnamed spy sent us this YouTube video of the WETA ad that was played at the beginning of the extended LOTR editions in cinemas. Take a look! Some old ... Read more..

Mythgard Institite: Offering Tolkien Studies

Monday, July 18th, 2011 Posted in Lectures & Education, Tolkien

Starting this fall, Tolkien fans will have an exciting new opportunity to learn more about the works that they love at the Mythgard Institute (www.mythgard.org). Mythgard is a new center for ... Read more..

More Evidence of Current Hobbit Filming in the UK

Monday, July 18th, 2011 Posted in Christopher Lee, Hobbit Movie, Locations Sets, The Hobbit

Sackheim-Beutlin sends this in: Sir Christopher Lee is currently filming "The Hobbit", as this German website says. Apparently, he wanted to attend a LOTR-Concert in Regensburg, Germany, this Friday, July ... Read more..

Thorin and Company – Full Body Rendering

Monday, July 18th, 2011 Posted in Adam Brown, Casting Rumors, Characters, Graham McTavish, Headlines, Hobbit Book, Hobbit Cast News, Hobbit Movie, James Nesbitt, John Callen, Ken Stott, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Rob Kazinsky, Stephen Hunter, The Hobbit, TheOneRing.net Announcements

Ringer Lotroel has just now sent us an update to his already impressive Photoshop compilation of all the dwarves in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. You'll notice in this pic, Lotroel has ... Read more..

TheOneRing.net Exclusive: Behold! Thorin Oakenshield and Orcrist!

Sunday, July 17th, 2011 Posted in Adam Brown, Aidan Turner, Casting Rumors, Characters, Graham McTavish, Headlines, Hobbit Book, Hobbit Cast News, Hobbit Movie, Ian McKellen, James Nesbitt, John Callen, Ken Stott, Mark Hadlow, Martin Freeman, Peter Hambleton, Richard Armitage, Rob Kazinsky, Stephen Hunter, The Hobbit, TheOneRing.net Announcements, TheOneRing.net Community, Tolkien

For a week or so, we have been treated to an unprecedented look at the Dwarves from Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. Today, TheOneRing.net is both honored and humbled to be ... Read more..

Analysis: TheOneRing.net Staff Talk Dwarves

Sunday, July 17th, 2011 Posted in Adam Brown, Aidan Turner, Characters, Graham McTavish, Hobbit Book, Hobbit Cast News, Hobbit Movie, James Nesbitt, John Callen, Ken Stott, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Richard Armitage, The Hobbit, TheOneRing.net Announcements, TheOneRing.net Community, Tolkien

Now that the whole Company has been revealed, TheOneRing.net's staff have put their heads together and we offer our thoughts and analysis on Thorin & Co -- and what the ... Read more..