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]
Month: November 2005
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]
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]
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.
Earlier today, TheOnering.net played host to the delightful Mr Alan Lee for a live Q&A in the Hall of Fire. Thanks to everyone who came along and asked a question. Big thanks also to Megan at HMCO for organising this as well as our lead moderator Alquawen and Balin, Daisy, Figgy and Jincey for their very able assistance! Here’s the log! And don’t forget that next weekend we’ll be discussing the Seven Deadly Sins and LoTR. [More]
Peter Jackson has no intention of buying the rights to China’s best-selling novel Wolf Totem. And he will not be raising wolves in New Zealand or having his Weta Digital company produce computer graphics of Mongolian wolves, either, says a spokesman for the New Zealand director, Matt Dravitzky. He was responding to an article in the New York Times that Jackson had acquired and planned to produce a film based on Wolf Totem. Mr Dravitzky said the newspaper had got it wrong and would be printing a correction. [More]