Ringer board member and artist, Ainu Laire, was kind enough to point out that today is Aragorn’s official birthday:
“Aragorn is one of the few Tolkien characters to be actually granted a date of birth and not just a year. He was born on March 1st, 2931 of the Third Age to Arathorn and Gilraen. At two years old, his father was slain by an orc-arrow that pierced his eye and he died at the age of sixty. Gilraen took her child to Rivendell, and Elrond took the place of his father and loved him as if he were his own. In this house his lineage was kept secret from him, and he was called Estel, which means ‘hope’ in the Elven tongue. “
Ainu Laire has posted a complete history on our boards, as well as some links to their wonderful artwork (featured in this post). Please check out the full post! [Read More]
We’ve finally had a chance to choose another fan submitted design for TheOneRing.net, and this time its from Grant Gould, artist and contributor to the TOPPS LOTR Masterpieces II set. Grant Gould is a freelance illustrator — His clients range from private collectors and small publishers to companies such as Lucasfilm and TOPPS. He just so happens to be a fan of TORn as well! If you like this theme, please click on the ‘discuss’ link below to leave your feedback. If you are interested in submitting your own design for TORn, please check out our original request by clicking on the following link. Thanks! [Submitting Designs] [GrantGould.com] [TOPPS LOTR Masterpieces II]
A few weeks back we asked Ringers to submit designs to skin TheOneRing.net. Since then we’ve had received a lot of wonderful artwork from all parts of the world. We plan on featuring one design every few weeks, so if you submitted something, please be patient! Our first skin comes from Phil Dragash. Among the many designs Phil submitted, this ‘Aragorn’ skin based on stills from The Lord of the Rings films, really stood out. (We’ll be seeing more of Phil’s skins in the coming weeks as there are many great ones) If you like this theme, please click on the ‘discuss’ link below to leave your feedback. If you are interested in submitting your own design for TORn, please check out our original request by clicking on the following link. Thanks! [Submitting Designs]
TORn board member, Maria_Campos, has posted some amazing pictures of a cake in the shape of The Witch-king! Yes, we said a cake! You have to see the pics to truly experience it. “I used black paste food coloring from Wilton to get the black color of the cloak, also silver food color and brass luster dust and more black paste food coloring for the mask, the metallic food coloring are edilble and can be found at any cake decorating supply store…” Read the full story of the Witch-King cake at our forums! [Description] [More Photos]
Thanks to Ringer Mike for alerting us to some very creative ‘building’ that took place over the Holidays. The family that runs the Miss(ed) Manners Blog have re-created the entirety of The Battle of Pelennor Fields using candy. It really defies explanation, so check it out for yourself! They also created a Helm’s Deep with Candy Last year. [Pelennor Fields] [Helm's Deep]
mudo pointed us to a web comic that we haven’t covered before, “Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.” DM of the Ring
Ostadan sent us the link to Eric Joisel’s page where he explains how to create origami versions of Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas. It is incredible, even if it doesn’t quite match your vision of the characters. [More]
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We’ve finally had a chance to choose another fan submitted design for TheOneRing.net, and this time its from Grant Gould, artist and contributor to the 
A few weeks back we asked Ringers to submit designs to skin TheOneRing.net. Since then we’ve had received a lot of wonderful artwork from all parts of the world. We plan on featuring one design every few weeks, so if you submitted something, please be patient! Our first skin comes from Phil Dragash. Among the many designs Phil submitted, this ‘Aragorn’ skin based on stills from The Lord of the Rings films, really stood out. (We’ll be seeing more of Phil’s skins in the coming weeks as there are many great ones) If you like this theme, please click on the ‘discuss’ link below to leave your feedback. If you are interested in submitting your own design for TORn, please check out our original request by clicking on the following link. Thanks! [
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