With the new news system we had a bit of construction. Hope I didn’t put anyone out.
Month: May 1999
Tehanu here from the Grey Havens,
Sorry, this one is a bit ‘in-house’ for New Zealanders…or people who have been here!
I consulted with Rutherford the calculating cat, (the one who is learning to type,) and he drew a Venn diagram to show the intersection of the sets of people who surf the Net, are interested in Lord of the Rings, are interested in photography, live in or have been to NZ, and have been hiking in Fiordland or the Southern Alps. Rutherford reckons it is a pretty tiny subset, but it does exist.
So if you’re out there and you have photos of parts of New Zealand that look like you’ve always imagined Middle Earth to look, why not send them to us and have your work posted up for a bit of web fame? We’d love to be able to put up some big pictures of the area round Queenstown, Wanaka, all that lovely Central Otago stuff. Y’know, the borders of Rohan? Also for those of you that have been down to Milford and Te Anau, how about some pics of that dark mysterious forest they have down there? And Rivendell, can anyone imagine where that might be?
If anyone has a photo of Moria Gate, north of Karamea (it really exists! I’ve seen it on maps!) we’d love to see that too, just out of curiosity. Those mapmakers were Tolkien fiends too, it seems.
We’ll put your name on your pics to give you the credit for them it you want, of course.
Well, yet another major change to TheOneRing.net happened over this weekend. We finally added a real news update system. Hopefully it will work better then the last one. As usual, any suggestions of comments send them my way.
I am also working very hard to get the characters section up and running. Look for it this weekend sometime.
Hope you guys like the new poll. Seemed it was quite the popular topic on the board, so I figured you’d enjoy. Don’t forget to send my your poll questions! This week I had only one to choose from..:(
Have a great week!
Xoanon has supplied us with Chapter 4! Go check it out here.
Just in case you didn’t know he supplied us with Chapters 2 and 3 just a few short days ago!
Way to go Xoanon!
Calisuri here,
First off, you should now notice a slight difference in the visited link color. I had many requests from individuals to change the dark green. I hope this helps you guys out.
Secondly, Hawkeye, a good bud of mine, was wandering around in the local mall and found this coupon in the B. Dalton’s Bookstore. It is very very cool!
![\[Trip to Middle-Earth Contest\]](http://img-www.theonering.net/images/contest_sm.gif)
I’m not real sure where you can get one for yourselves, but make sure you enter!! The contest is also only for US residents who are 18 and over. A trip to NZ for those of us stuck in the US would be amazing!
As always, please send in your suggestions and comments. We read them all! Trust me! And keep sending in those poll questions!
Have a great week!
Picked this up from Calisuri (since when was he a news man?) thanks bud.
From Corona comes an interesting scoop regarding talks of more casting by director Peter Jackson: Yes, at least one conversation has transpired between Ian McKellen and Jackson regarding the role of Gandalf. Not certain this has been he has PASSED on yet, but remember that any actor who takes on this job will in effect be committing to his next THREE films and the next TWO AND A HALF YEARS of his life. Not certain that McKellen wants to make either of those commitments. For now, let’s still consider this job IN PLAY.”