We like to give TORN readers the competitive edge when it comes to ticket buying, and knowledge is power, as they say. Ticketek gave me this information:
Tickets go on sale at 9am NZ time on Monday. We’re on daylight saving here so this will be 1pm Pacific Standard Time on SUNDAY for folks in the States, and around 9pm Sunday GMT. Overseas bookings – like we’ve done for the Ringers party, you can opt for ‘pick up at venue’ and when you get to concert hall on the night, show your credit card at the box office (the same one you used to book) and they’ll give you the ticket.

Robert writes to tell us of an event in Turin where Richard Taylor will be speaking, on November 3 [More]

Robert writes, ” The two-time Oscar winner will be in my country very soon. In fact, Taylor will be the special guest of Virtuality, an event dedicated to the special effects and to the 3D movies, which will occur in Turin between the 3 and 5 of november. Taylor will describe his work and answer the questions arriving from the audience, even by web surfers, who can connect at Virtuality Conference, on Monday Nov 3rd, starting from 10.30 Italian time.

“Other guests of the event are, among others, Digital Domain’s Scott Ross, Pixel Liberation Front’s Colin Green, PDI’s Luca Prasso, ILM’s Indira Guerrieri and Proxima’s Paolo Zeccara.”

Wellington City Council has a calendar of events online so you can see all the fun that’s happening around December 1st. Our Return of the Ringers party is in there as well as the Folklore Festival of medieval goings-on. [More] There’s still tix for TORN’s party on the 30th, and tix to the Howard Shore concert go on sale this Monday at Ticketek People going on Red Carpet’s Rohan tour should note that this tour doesn’t get to Wellington in time to make the concert. Both tours – if you haven’t received information about reserving your spot on the grandstand, go here for important information.

After a three day ‘Trilogy Tuesday’ exposé, the dust has settled. We fans have had our chance to vent. New Line has spoken and Tolkien fandom marches on. In our final report, we try to put the matter of ‘Trilogy Tuesday’ into perspective and provide some ‘solutions.’ [More]

Orlando Bloom at the 'Hollywood Awards Gala'
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Quickbeam writes: These days it seems we just can’t get Orlando Bloom out of our hair. He follows us into restaurants. He is always hanging around the back of the bus, thinking we don’t notice him. But of course he’s at Starbucks, every morning, hiding behind an old copy of the L.A. Times acting non-chalant. That’s the price we pay being part of TORN — always in demand in Hollywood — we could wave a stick and hit 7 celebrities just begging to be on our videotape. And thus we have Mr. Bloom waiting for his chance! All he really wants is to share the love with all you shiny, happy Ringer fans. So after months of this clandestine behavior, we just turned around and said, OK, fine… we’ll interview you. [More]