  TORn headed to Queenstown, NZ for ‘Hobbit’ reporting
Writer and photographer Larry D. Curtis (MrCere@TheOneRing.net) will be a one-man news production team for two weeks, starting November 30 when he touches down at the Queenstown airport. His journey will also take him to Wellington to mark the one year countdown before the world premiere of the first Hobbit film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, in 2012 along with visits to friends of TORn (such as our own founder Tehanu) and can’t-miss public sites like the Weta Cave. Curtis (known by the handle MrCere on the site) also plans to meet with as many fans as possible while in the area, including at un-official but hopefully frequent moot events, so if interested in attending or hosting, please contact him at the email above. The always all-volunteer and not-for-profit TheOneRing.net would also appreciate anybody who has great information or tips on inexpensive places to stay (no haystack ruled out!) or eat while in New Zealand. TORn Message Boards Weekly Roundup – July 10 2011
A photo tribute to 10 years of TORnDuring my association with TheOneRing.net I have often felt very fortunate to know great people and be in great places. Sometimes I have been lucky enough to have my camera along. Out of that vast TORn photo library that includes digital images, and old scratched negitives, I put a few images together with some music from Arjan Kiel, (with thanks to fan film ‘Born of Hope,’) to pay tribute to the whole community of TheOneRing.net. Click on the small triangle to play and to see the best fullscreen version, click on the box at the far right.  Discuss »More about Andy Serkis, Barrie Osborne, Billy Boyd, Bruce Hopkins, ComicCon, Conventions, Dominic Monaghan, DragonCon, Elijah Wood, Events, Fans, Howard Shore, Ian McKellen, Jim Rygiel, John Howe, John Rhys-Davies, Lawrence Makoare, Lectures & Education, LotR Cast News, New Zealand, Ngila Dickson, Original TORn, Oscar Parties, Other Events, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Randy Cook, Richard Taylor, Sala Baker, Sean Astin, Sideshow Collectibles, TheOneRing.net Community, WETA Workshop Comments Off TORn Flashback June 9-14: Keanu Reeves or Danny DiVito as Gandalf?
Discuss »More about Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, LotR Cast News, LotR Movies, Movie Fellowship of the Ring, Movie Return of the King, Movie The Two Towers, Old Spy Reports, Peter Jackson, Rumours Spy News Comments Off New WETA Book: Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory
Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory Comments Off New WETA Book: Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory
The book is a thirty-two-page catalogue that chronicles the world of Doctor Grordbort. Inventor extraordinaire, Dr Grordbort has a gadget for everything, and in this meticulous catalogue of weaponry, he showcases a world where chivalry is not dead, advertising is beautiful, and rayguns look too pretty to be lethal. Inside the book you will find the shiniest new bifurnilizers, metal manservants, and automated travel loungers. Also included for entertainment and scientific education is a compartmentalised picture story (some call them comics) of the world-famous naturalist, Lord Cockswain. Lord Cockswain was the hit of this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, as convention-goers stopped agape at Weta’s hauntingly realistic, life-size memorial statue, celebrating Lord Cockswain and the Moon Mistress’ heroic endeavors on Venus. Written and illustrated by Weta Workshop conceptual designer Greg Broadmore, Doctor Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory showcases dozens of arcane inventions and contraptions. “As a kid I was massively inspired and awed by the black-and-white serials on Sunday afternoon TV, in particular the 1930s Flash Gordon and the many sci-fi movies of that era,” says Greg. “This book allowed me to pay homage to that world of science fiction and create something new at the same time. And it’s full of guns, did I mention guns? Rayguns actually, the best type.” The stars of the show are, of course, Doctor Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators, the unique range of Rayguns available to purchase via www.wetanz.com/rayguns. This hardcover book will be available in January 2008. Pre-ordering of the comic is now open to Weta VIP clients via www.wetanz.com/rayguns. Comments Off John Howe’s Journal: Paint Your Dragon(Or Of The Topography of Tesseracts and the Ineffable Benefits of Entasis) – By John Howe I spend a fair bit of time pondering the imponderables (that’s why it takes time) of fantasy imagery. Fantasy imagery has been happening for a long time. In fact no culture, ever, has created ONLY realistic, down-to-earth, day-to-day and otherwise familiar imagery. Everything we set our eyes upon is deified, vilifeid, praised or ridiculed, or, with surprising regularity, sublimated by our desires and aspirations. Hence our dawning century of fantasy art, with little fantasy artists scattered the world over, who peer into looking glasses darkly Alice-fashion, hoping for a glimpse of the invisible, a hint of the ineffable, in the hopes of transcribing the sparkle of that particular glamour on paper/canvas/screen. Sometimes it seems a shame we don’t build any more temples to Poseidon or Odin or commission artists to decorate the entrances to sacred groves or sculpt pillars for Irminsul. Of course, we can’t any more, at least not with a straight face, not with the scientific age disputing monotheisms for our attention and belief. Serious business, that, and not to be tampered with. So fantasy has packed its gypsy tricks in its tatterdemalion cloak and gone a different road, into make-believe. Perhaps that’s where the saving grace of all this lies. It’s not entirely serious. Because from our extraordinary viewing platform we can see stars for real, poke around inside atoms and count all the numbers everywhere. Quite an accomplishment. We can believe, often in the face of all evidence, often with grace and happiness, often simply with motions gone through, in whatever ultimate felicity or fate we inherit or choose. Quite a program. Rather like a buffet – you know those salad bars, where you always try to cram too much on your plate? Sometimes opinions and beliefs to me feel just like that. Something we diligently or dutifully apply to our world rather than something we allow the world to offer because understanding is neither counting atoms nor having an exclusive on the truth. [More] Comments Off ¿Habla ese orc español?Leandro writes: Elfenomeno.com (the Spanish member of TheOneRing.net Community), in its eighth anniversary, is proud to announce the Spanish version of the Map of Middle-Earth with Google Maps technology. Using the Google Maps API, the map of Middle-Earth drawn by Christopher Tolkien and the power of the “Fenopaedia” (Elfenomeno online encyclopedia), now you can travel from Hobbiton to Mordor, from Rivendel to Erebor, with a simple click of your mouse. Take a look and…Happy Birthday, Elfenomeno! Comments Off The Complete ROTK Score Tracklisting! 2. Journey To The Cross-roads 3. The Road To Isengard 4. The Foot Of Orthanc 5. Return To Edoras 6. The Chalice Passed 7. The Green Dragon [Featuring Billy Boyd] 8. Gollum’s Villainy 9. Éowyns Dream 10. The Palant’r 11. Flight From Edoras 12. The Grace Of Undómiel [Featuring Renée Fleming] 13. The Eyes Of The White Tower 14. A Coronal Of Silver And Gold 15. The Lighting Of The Beacons 16. Osgiliath Invaded [Featuring Ben Del Maestro] 17. The Stairs Of Cirith Ungol 18. Allegiance To Denethor 19. The Sacrifice Of Faramir [Featuring Ulrich Herkenhoff] 20. The Parting Of Sam And Frodo 21. Marshalling At Dunharrow 22. Andúril – Flame Of The West 23. The Passing Of The Grey Company 24. Dwimorberg – The Haunted Mountain 25. Master Meriadoc, Swordthain 26. The Paths Of The Dead 27. The Siege Of Gondor 28. Shelobs Lair 29. Merrys Simple Courage 30. Grond – The Hammer Of The Underworld 31. Shelob The Great 32. The Tomb Of The Stewards 33. The Battle Of The Pelennor Fields 34. The Pyre Of Denethor 35. The Mûmakil 36. Dernhelm In Battle 37. A Far Green Country 38. Shieldmaiden Of Rohan 39. The Passing Of Théoden 40. The Houses Of Healing [Featuring Liv Tyler] 41. The Tower Of Cirith Ungol 42. The Last Debate [Featuring Sissel] (this is probably Sissel’s Song from the ROTK EE Fan Credits restored for some previously intended scene. I’m not sure, at the moment, what scene this would be.) 43. The Land Of Shadow 44. The Mouth Of Sauron [Featuring Sir James Galway] 45. For Frodo [Featuring Ben Del Maestro] 46. Mount Doom [Featuring Renée Flemin g] 47. The Crack Of Doom 48. The Eagles [Featuring Renée Fleming] 49. The Fellowship Reunited [Featuring ??] (This must be a long track to include all that happens between the Eagles and the Grey Havens. I’m guessing the list would include James Galway, Renée Fleming, and Viggo Mortensen are in this track but there may be more.) 50. The Journey To The Grey Havens 51. Elanor [Featuring Sir James Galway ] (I have no idea what this is.) 52. Days Of The Ring [Featuring Annie Lennox] (but I don’t know if this contains Into the West or if Into the West would be in track 50 and this is something else. I could contain the song Use Well the Days. The track title might be a typo for “Days of the King”.) 53. Bilbos Song – (This is the final song heard on the ROTK EE Fan Credits. It is an Elvish translation of “I sit beside the fire and think” and is sung by a boy’s choir. It is exquisitely, almost painfully beautiful and was written just for this spot by Howard Shore as a thank you and goodbye to the fans.) Comments Off Lynne on The Hobbit – ‘There’s more than hope’Huge news from MTV today folks concering the future of ‘The Hobbit.’ We don’t want to steal their thunder, so check out the video and jump on over to the MTV movie blog for the encouraging details! Comments Off Peter Jackson Wanted for the Deathly HallowsKevin Johns, (Cult)u’re Magazine Cinema Editor, writes: Over at www.culturemagazine.ca we’ve started a campaign called “Peter Jackson for The Hallows!”. Under whelmed with the quality of the last Harry Potter film, we have decided that no one other than Peter Jackson has the skills necessary to make Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the film it deserves to be. We’re using the commenting function at the bottom of the article (here) as an online petition and we hope to get lots of names signed up. Obviously we don’t expect Jackson to actually direct the film, but we thought this would be a fun event that could get people talking and dreaming about how great a Jackson directed Potter film would be. The (Cult)u’re Magazine editorial team has had a great time talking about this amazing pipe dream, and we’d love to spread the discussion out into the greater Peter Jackson online community. As the most respected Jackson site out there, we would love the support of Theonering.net. If you could mention the article on your News page, or somehow direct your faithful readers in our direction, that would be just wonderful! We are big fans of your site, and we greatly appreciate your time and assistance! Comments Off Trilogy Screening in MichiganThe Academy Award winning trio of films known as The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is making their way back to the big screen. We invite you to join us on Sunday, October 21, 2007 for this one-day event which will include all three movies, a costume contest, give-aways, and discounted concessions! Comments Off |
  
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