Turimel writes: I took these very cool pics of Alan Lee in Beaverton, OR. He’s drawing a picture of Sam on a concrete stepping stone. That stone will be placed in the Elanor Garden, which is just up the street from the bookstore where Alan appeared.
The garden was built to be an homage to JRR Tolkien and his beloved character, Sam Gamgee. We wanted to make a special stone as a tribute to Sam for the garden path, and Mr. Lee was gracious enough to brave the difficult media of rough concrete and a very messy bottle of paint to produce a lovely sketch of Sam on this stone. It bears an imprint of nasturtium leaves and a flower, and will eventually say, “Well, I’m back!” This will surely be the crown jewel of the Elanor garden and I’m thrilled that Mr. Lee was willing to do this–particularly after a long evening of presentations, questions, and booksignings.
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Liv Tyler, who has remained elusive since giving birth to her son Milo in December, finally stepped off the mommy track for a glamorous bash launching the new Fendi store on Fifth Avenue. Despite having been on every party list for the past few months, Tyler stayed away; it took Fendi to finally draw her out of the house. [More]
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MANKATO, Minn. – Some of the old-timers in Bruce Birkemeyer’s rock collecting club weren’t exactly encouraging when he wondered if he should enter his “Lord of the Rings” display in a regional competition. The problem was that Birkemeyer had literally thought outside the box. The competitions sponsored by mineralogical societies consist pretty much exclusively of rock hounds displaying their most interesting finds in a 3-foot by 4-foot display box. [More]
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It’s time to open the nominations for the One Ring Awards, to be held at The One Ring Celebration in Pasadena, CA on January 21, 2006. Like last year, most of the Awards will be voted on by you, the best LOTR fans on the net. Please send all nomination submissions to: OneRingAwards@theonering.net using the format asked for, thank you. Entries will be accepted until the end of November 2005. [More]
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Tim Richardson, The Dork-rector of ‘The Dork of the Rings’ writes: Coming this December will be a FREE sneak screening on the “big screen” in South Bend, Indiana of clips and interviews from THE DORK OF THE RINGS, which is coming out in summer 2006. [More]
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Tim Richardson, The Dork-rector of ‘The Dork of the Rings’ writes: Coming this December will be a FREE sneak screening on the “big screen” in South Bend, Indiana of clips and interviews from THE DORK OF THE RINGS, which is coming out in summer 2006. Our website is dorkoftherings.com
Meet the cast and crew of the film and watch the movie trailer, the documentary THE MAKING OF MUDDLE-EARTH (which has screened internationally), footage of co-director Jack Peterson at conventions (where he talked to Elijah Wood about the film), new and improved computer enhanced scenes from the film and much, much more!
An hour-long DVD with many of these videos will be available as well at the event and through the website starting December 10. We will also hopefully have new Dork t-shirts available for sale by then.
This sizzling event will take place Saturday, December 10 at 2:00 p.m. Indiana University South Bend at Wiekamp Hall in lecture room 1001. Visit iusb.edu to find the address and map information.
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