Bernard Hill (Theoden) most infamous role, as Captain EJ Smith from ‘Titanic’ is on Cinemax today. [More]

Hullo Fans of Tolkien!

Gandalf the Grey has penned another Hall of Fire topic for me to share with you. If you missed Part I, have heart:

Istari Part II: Radagast and the Ithryn Luin — the Blue Wizards

Much is known of Gandalf and Saruman, but what of the other three of the Order? How much is known about Radahast the Brown, and what happened to him after the War of the Ring? Did he go back into the west as Gandalf did, or did he suffer a different outcome?

And what of the two blue wizards, Alatar and Pallando? What is their fate? What were they sent to do in Middle-earth? It is said they went to the east; what was their mission exactly?

Bring your own questions and answers, and join me and Tookish on Saturday, April 1, at 5:30 EST.

Yours in haste, Gandalf

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Thanks — Tookish

Hello again all! Gamgee here, with another helping of fresh Tolkien fun! Our winner yesterday was Martin Anderson!! A job well done man!!! The answers were:1) Rochallor 2) Archet 3) Celeborn
Here are the questions for today:
1) “Who was the initial developer of Tengwar?”
2) “nfclowei” (scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “And so would I be still Sam, if I could. But don’t be hard on me. What can I do?” (Who said this?)
As usual e-mail me with your answers, the 1st person to mail me with all 3 correct answers in one mailing will be posted here tomorrow! Good Luck!

Super Ringer Spy Leo is a busy boy…after treking through most of civilized New Zealand he’s set up shop at his computer and nearly burned out his scanner getting us these pics! Enjoy! [More]

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Super Ringer Spy Leo is a busy boy…after treking through most of civilized New Zealand he’s set up shop at his computer and nearly burned out his scanner getting us these pics! Enjoy!


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Leo: “basejamb and basejamb1 are pics of one of the places the actors and crew eat and get ready for shooting at Helms Deep, which is across the road. We stumbled on this place when we where looking for the Rivendell set, they were clever to put a sign up with base jamb(oree).”


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Leo: “fortdorset and fortdorset1 are pics of fort dorset land where the Bree exterior set used to be build, and as you can see there is nothing left:)”


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Leo: “Did you ever think you’d get tired of pics from Helms Deep?”


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Leo: “lothlorien is a pic taken near Paradise were they shot scenes for Lorien, this kinda reminded me at Lorien and the Misty Mountains, and it is very well possible you will see this in the movies as well. The other is what I hope mirrormere will look like :)”


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Leo: “Setprops are some pics of a piece of the helms deep set being moved to the dry creek quarry, and one of ppl building part of the set of Lorien”


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Leo: “Shire and shire1 are pics taken at Mt Victoria were they shot scenes about the hobbits running into the black rider, these pics give an impression of how that part of the shire would look like.”


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Leo: “The stonestreet jpg’s are pics taken near the stone street, to give an impression of how ‘normal’ these studios look like, and you’d have to know its a studio or you would walk straight past it:) on one of these pics you can see some extras who are marching ( elves?)”


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Leo: “Another view of Orthanc”