Ringer Laura recently picked up the new Art Asylum’s The Lord of the Rings Minimates from the Santa Monica, CA ‘Puzzle Zoo.’ She kindly sent along pictures of the figures she picked up so we could all drool with envy! 😛 If you don’t have a local retailer selling these items, we did find sets of 4 on Amazon.com for only $10 a set. Follow the link for details and pictures. When we find an online retailer selling the double figure sets (show in Laura’s pics) we’ll make another post. [Scrapbook Pics] [Aragorn, Legolas, Saruman, Twilight Frodo Set] [Frodo, Gollum Gandalf, Uruk Berserker Set]
Month: August 2004
Today is Billy Boyd’s Birthday! Billy was born on August 28th, 1968 in Glasgow, Scotland. That makes him 36 today! Happy Birthday Billy!
People have been wondering where Xoanon has been of late — Never fear, Xo has not left us! He’s just taking a much over-due vacation. Thanks for putting up with all of us as we attempt the Herculean task of filling Xo’s shoes (it ain’t easy, I tell ya’!). He will be back soon, unless he decides to stay in his vacation paradise.
TORn Staffer Demosthenes pointed out this story earlier today. It’s a chat with Christopher Lee from earlier this month, who makes a small comment about his role in the LOTR films. [More]
TheOneRing.net will offer four new shirt styles for the fall, three of which will be available to buy at Dragon Con in Atlanta September 3 – 6.
We don’t want to give away everything at once but the three shirts available at the fantasy convention (with its own heavy-duty Tolkien tract of programming) will have new sayings and will be in colors slightly different from what TORn has offered previously.
One has a “pretty Elf-man” joke on the back for people who have never read Tolkien’s books while another returns to TORn’s name sake and has a reference about a ring, or at least something precious.
The final shirt, which features a full seven color front and the likeness of a top-notch idol of millions is a “Thank you” note to Peter Jackson.
The fourth shirt that will be available on the web site is a polo-style collared shirt with an embroidered TheOneRing.net logo. It will be available in four colors. This shirt, because of its extra cost on TORn’s end will be ordered from the production company as it is ordered from TORn and will take longer to get to TORNados but will be well worth the wait.
The t-shirts each feature text from the recent fan-made “Aniron” font used by express permission from its creator. Restricted from commercial use, the font is available for fan use on his web site found here.
TORn still has a few of our old style shirts available but sizes and color choices are limited. Any shirts orders that cannot be filled will be refunded. We do still have a healthy stock of our “Return of the One Party” shirts available.
All our current merchandise and the new items are or will be available at our T-Shirt Store: [Click Here]
And of course buying our items not only gets you great stuff, it helps keep TheOneRing.net on line.
Images of the new shirts will be posted shortly.
Ringer Zac sends us a scan from the latest Anime Insider Magazine. After a long wait, the magazine if finally featuring The Lord of the Rings in its ‘If It Were Anime’ section. [Click Here]
Ringer Mithril sends us the latest news on Dominic Monaghan, aka Meriadoc Brandybuck. Dominic is expected to attend a showing of his new TV show ‘Lost,’ on the beach in Waikiki, Hawaii. Mithril informs us that LOTR fans are planning to get together for the event. Additionally, today’s Honolulu Star Bulletin has an article on Dominic’s experiences with the show and his post Lord of the Rings Career. [More]