Having seen ‘The Return of the King’ we must of course take a closer look at Viggo Mortensens Aragorn. Does the King really return for this movie? Is Strider the Ranger cast aside and Aragorn, King of the Re-United Kingdom, revealed?

We shall also take a closer look at Frodo. How is Frodo of ‘The Return of the King’ compared to the Frodo seen in the first two movies? How is his relationship with Sam changed compared to their relationship in the books?

Upcoming topics:

weekend 100104-110104
Peter Jacksons ‘The Lord of the Rings’; the trilogy as a whole

Times:
Saturday Chat:
5:30pm ET (17:30)
[also 11:30pm (23:30) CET and 9:30am Sunday (09:30) AET]

Sunday Chat:
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[also 1:00pm (13:00) ET and 5:00am (05:00) Monday morning AET]

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Return of the King made numerous appearances in the Jan 9th 2004 edition of Entertainment Weekly Magazine. Check them out! [More]

Ringers Rosie and Sam of Atlanta write: Before the season slips too far away, we thought some of the TORN readers might enjoy the attached photos of a gingerbread house we constructed for a Return of the King party shortly after the movie released. [More] Yummy! And very cool…

The Tolkien Society is once again sponsoring a world-wide Toast to the Professor in honor of the anniverary of his birth: On January 3rd Tolkien fans around the world are invited to raise a glass and toast the birthday of this much loved author at 21:00 (“9 pm”) GMT.

For more information on the toast, and toasting traditions in general, visit the Tolkien Society’s site. [More]

Susan writes in to say: Tickets for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Modern Masters award program featuring Peter Jackson are now on sale at Ticketmaster. The event is scheduled for January 31st at 7:30 p.m., and are $35.00. [Tickets]

We have posted about this before, but it is of interest and is thus repeated: The University of Aberystwyth (Wales) is conducting a project examining response to the Lord of the Rings films. If you are interested in participating, or in learning more, check out their site. [More]