This story just reaks of the foul craft of Saruman trying to disrupt The Hobbit production:

Firefighters are tonight working to contain a toxic “sludge” leaking at The Hobbit studios.

They were called this afternoon to Stone St Studios where the Hobbit is being filmed after contractors noticed a gas-like smell coming from a trench in which they were working.

The workers had been digging in the ground when they hit the foul-smelling sludge. They immediately called the Fire Service.

Fire Service acting assiantant area commnader Mike Dombroski said the leak was being treated as a “hazardous substances” incident. Emergency services have poured concrete to stabilise the trench to prevent the sludge further seeping from the ground and entering the area’s stormwater system.

Joking aside, we hope there are no harmful long term affects on the region! And since Weta was on hiatus this week, we don’t believe this actually has any affect on the production. [Read on] Thanks to Ringer Michiel  from DeHobbit.net for the heads up!

 

 

A celebration of all things JRR Tolkien will be held at Penkridge library to highlight Staffordshire’s local link with one of the world’s favourite authors.

Literary lovers can take part in a guided walk from Penkridge Library across the Teddesley Estate, passing through Gipsy Green where Tolkien’s cottage of 1918 still stands.

Free copies of the book ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ will be given away to participants as part of the celebrations for World Book Night.

Staffordshire County Councillor for Pat Corfield, Cabinet Member for Culture, Communities and Customers, said: “This is a lovely way to spend a Spring day, exploring the area that helped to inspire JRR Tolkien. This is a wonderful and innovative idea from our library staff in Penkridge.”

 

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It is Wednesday June 15th 2011, and many of us are just waking up from a long night of Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition bliss. As requested, many fans have emailed in their photos and experiences. So to make things easy on everyone, we are going to continuously update this particular post with your experience as you send them in. Make sure you are including your theater and location in the emails, otherwise they may not get posted. We did get quite a few reports of technical issues with the screening, and we’ll pass that along to the folks at Fathom and WB. Of course, check out our Facebook page as many folks are directly posting to it with their experiences. Without further delay, click the ‘continue reading’ button to read more about experiences from fans throughout the US and NZ as they saw The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition on the big screen for the first time! You can still buy tickets to TTT and ROTK, and don’t forget to order your copy of LOTR Ex on Blu-Ray! [TORn on Facebook] [Buy Tickets] [WBshop.com]

Continue reading “FOTR Ex Screening Experiences – Fan Reaction”

For those of you attending a screening of The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition tonight, don’t forget to email us when you get home. We would love to know about your experience and feel free to send us some photos. You can email them to spymaster@theonering.net . We’ll try our best to post as much as we can. Or, if you are on Facebook, share your photos and stories on our wall. We’ve also set up a special photo album.

Have a great time tonight! And for those of us who are not near a theater showing the Extended edition, plop in the DVD at home tonight and follow right along! [TORn on Facebook] [Buy Tickets] [WBshop.com]

 

This is the second story of the day with fan creations that have truly impressed. Javi Aguilar writes: We’ve created our own version of the dwarfs and the mine, and I thought you’d like to see the pictures. I’m a photographer from Barcelona (Spain). This is the link at Flickr, you may want to visit my website: www.javiaguilar.com.