Greetings, Quickbeam here.

Spring and “Green” go hand-in-hand, even here at TheOneRing.net™. It is my pleasure to announce the following new items that are stirring at the Green Books:

• Turgon has a terrific new article in his “Bookshelf,” giving us an eagle’s eye view of Tolkien publications for 2000. This is your *first* advance word of new paperback editions of Tolkien’s works on both sides of the Atlantic! Click here to read more.

• Our “Testimonials” is now called “Tributes.” More fitting, I think… Read how the Professor inspired the lives of other fantasy authors and historians such as Urusla K. LeGuin, Sean Stewart (Clouds End and Nobody’s Son) and world-class loremaster Douglas A. Anderson (The Annotated Hobbit). Even the evil wizard Saruman has a brief comment about meeting JRRT face-to-face!

• Several new updates are found in the Questions and Answers section. Click here for more.

• Our very special staff illustrator, Mia, recently travelled to Oxford with the “Tolkien Eccentric Unusual Nut Cases” and has shared her Pilgrimage with us. This terrific photo-essay has 36 images and her wonderful first-person account! Visit Tolkien’s past and stop by 20 Northmoor Road where Tolkien wrote The Hobbit.

There’s plenty more as we at Green Books explore the WORDS and WORLD of Tolkien. Thanks to all for being part of our ever-growing readership!

Much too hasty,

Quickbeam

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Not much has been said about our involvement with charity since it was first announced back in January. You can read a little more about the Books in Homes program which we are participating in on our Charities Page. Hopefully soon we will be announcing our next charity sponsorship, with a much larger well known organization.

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The Elijah Wood (Frodo) film ‘The Bumblebee Flies Anyway’ is on TMN tonight. On a little side note, I recently saw this film, it was a great piece of drama. [More]

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Spring has sprung! to celebrate, take a looksee at our weekly items listed from Ebay! [More]

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Wanna see where they plan to keep Ian McKellen captive? [More]

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Ringer Spies Leo and Eddie send in the goods from New Zealand! First we have a couple of new pics from the Helms Deep set sent in by Eddie:

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Next we have the latest from Leo, first ever seen set pics from the Miramar Studios that will house the Orthanc set!

From Leo:

At the moment there is a set being build behind the “Stone Street Studios” in Miramar Wellington. I am pretty sure that this set is gonna be the pinacle of Orthanc were they are planning on filming the scenes were Gandalf is being held captive by Saruman. They’ll probably shoot the scenes at night (the set is close to the airport and outside on the parking lodge ), and I figure they’ll need some technology ( blue screens?) to cover up the background.

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