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3D print your own key to Erebor from December 13!
December 4, 2013 at 8:28 am -From December 13, fans with a 3D printer who use the Windows 8 Ads-inApps, or who have an XBox 360 will be able to download a blueprint of The Key To Erebor. And that means they’ll be able to print their own, at home. Pretty neat. According to Microsoft’s Owen Sageness, the company partnered with…
Find out which character from The Hobbit you are!
December 4, 2013 at 7:45 am -Our good friend Emil at LOTRProject has put together a nifty little quiz you can take to work out which character from The Hobbit you might be. Emil writes: It is intended to be for fun only. Most of the character traits are taken from the book with some additional information from the movie. I…
Extended clip of Bard and Thorin in Lake-town from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
December 4, 2013 at 7:16 am -New clips from The Desolation of Smaug are popping up in the oddest places. It’s a bit like a game of hide-and-go-seek. Here’s another one from WB Thailand’s Youtube page featuring Thorin and Bard arguing before the people of Lake-town and the Master that extends one of the sequences that we’d seen just a little…
Bilbo and Gandalf clip from The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
December 4, 2013 at 6:14 am -A high-definition version of the Bilbo-Gandalf clip that aired last night on The Daily Show has popped up on Empire Magazine Australasia’s Facebook page. Of course, we’d seen bits of it before, but this 48 seconds stretches the scene a little further than we’ve previously scene. Oh, and we have the actual soundtrack as well!…
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Tauriel Statue Review
December 3, 2013 at 11:01 pm -Comic-Con 2013 brought us, at this point, one of the most polarizing characters we’ve seen in The Hobbit Trilogy. Before she ever uttered a line, Evangeline Lilly’s Tauriel had fans picking sides. Collectors got a good look at the character when the amazing artists at Weta Workshop unveiled the 1:6th statue of Tauriel. This was…
New Clips from The Desolation of Smaug featuring Thranduil, Tauriel and Legolas
December 3, 2013 at 8:54 pm -Can’t wait to get a look at the finished film following last night’s premiere? We’ve got two clips from The Desolation of Smaug for you right here! SPOILER warning, of course. The first one comes today from Entertainment Weekly. The clip was shown – in abridged form – last night, during Evangeline Lilly’s appearance on…
Life Flight Hobbit Charity Screening Auction
December 3, 2013 at 8:26 pm -Further to our post last week about the Life Flight Hobbit Charity Screening, Niall Mackay from Life Flight has sent us information about an auction they’re running in the lead up to the film for two lucky fans to attend the event sitting next to Bifur himself Niall says “William Kircher has…
Win this great prize pack for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug!
December 3, 2013 at 3:08 pm -To celebrate the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in theatres, Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and us here at TheOneRing.net are offering readers the opportunity to win a huge prize pack of movie merchandise, tickets and goodies with a retail value of more than $750. There are eleven great…
Evangeline Lilly ‘stamps’ her mark on Middle-earth
December 3, 2013 at 12:29 pm -Actor Evangeline Lilly says she is delighted to be featured on an official New Zealand Post stamp and coin to help celebrate the upcoming release of the epic fantasy adventure The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM). Lilly plays a fierce Elf warrior named Tauriel in…
Canadian Ringers! Get Free Passes to a Dec 9th Screening of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug!’
December 3, 2013 at 9:19 am -Live in Canada? Available for about 3 hours on December 9th at 7pm? Then you should really fill out the form below to be entered into a random drawing for two free tickets to this early screening of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug! TheOneRing.net is privileged to pick random winners from all entries to…
Watch the world premiere event for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug!
December 2, 2013 at 5:59 pm -Today is the big day! The world premiere of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be upon us at 6.30pm PST (Check the time for your own timezone). The LIVE event is over. But you can still rewatch the footage in full below.
Competition – win Desolation of Smaug exclusive film cell collectible
December 2, 2013 at 10:47 am -The good folks at Film Cells Ltd are celebrating the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug by giving YOU a chance to win one of their exclusive collectibles! These fabulous pieces are made using real film provided directly by Warner Bros. (If, like me, you were wondering how there is still film available, when the…
Readers, ask ‘Hobbit’ stars your question via TORn!
December 1, 2013 at 8:31 pm -LOS ANGELES – TheOneRing.net will sit down (and stand up) with stars of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” tomorrow and since we are representing fans, it seemed only appropriate to let fans submit some questions. Interviews will play later in the week via video but we need your questions right away, in the next…
Collecting The Precious – Games Workshop The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Figures
December 1, 2013 at 8:26 pm -Games Workshop produces little mini-figures that you can buy, put together, and paint yourself. These little figures are really cool when done up and painted by someone who knows how to handle a brush. Today, we’re pleased to bring you their wave of figures for the second of The Hobbit Trilogy. These figures range in…
Fili and Kili answering fan questions today on The Hobbit facebook page
December 1, 2013 at 10:16 am -Dean O’Gorman and Aidan Turner will be answering questions from fans about The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug later today (Sunday, December 1st) from 1:15pm PST / 4:15pm EST / 9:15pm GMT. (Sounds a bit like a Reddit Ask Me Anything session, except on Facebook.) All you have to do is keep an eye out…
Listen to 90-second samples from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug soundtrack!
November 30, 2013 at 10:02 pm -Watertower Music is really teasing everyone with Howard Shore’s sou8ndtrack for The Desolation of Smaug. We’ve had 30-second and 60-second samples, and recently they’ve gone and stretched it out to 90 seconds over on their SoundCloud. So if you haven’t given it a whirl yet, just click Play below, or (if you’re having trouble) head…
Join us as we watch the The Return of the King Extended Edition this Sunday in the Barliman’s chat!
November 30, 2013 at 8:44 pm -We’re halfway there! Last weekend we watched The Two Towers Extended Edition. This Sunday (December 1) from Midday ET (that’s New York time), we’ll be continuing our LOTR and Hobbit marathon fun in the Barliman’s chat as we haul out our copies of The Return of the King Extended Edition and all press “play” at…
Hall of Fire Two Towers chat today: The Journey to the Crossroads
November 30, 2013 at 11:33 am -Our chapter-by-chapter discussions on the middle installment of J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings are coming to a close. Later today in Hall of Fire at 5pm EST we’ll be discussing the chapter that takes Frodo, Sam and Gollum to the edge of Ithilien as the Black Land itself broods and gathers its strength for…
On the Finding of Thror’s Map and the Key to the Lonely Mountain
November 29, 2013 at 11:54 pm -In expanding on Professor Tolkien’s text in his film adaptation, director Peter Jackson allows us to follow Gandalf the Grey into areas that remain secret to us within the text of The Hobbit. As we look forward seeing these events unfold before our eyes next month, this essay by Tedoras examines Gandalf’s journey into the…
Tourism New Zealand is opening the Book of New Zealand in LA
November 29, 2013 at 4:47 pm -A very unique art installation is about to open in LA, brought to you by Whybin/TBWA, Tourism New Zealand and 3 Foot 7 Ltd. The concept is that of a Pop-up book that shows four different New Zealand filming locations, along with the four corresponding actual film sets from the upcoming film ‘The Hobbit: Desolation of…
