We’ve teamed up with our friends at Gemr to create a collectors community for fans of Middle-earth. TheOneRing.net’s collectors community takes Collecting The Precious to another level, allowing fans to come together and chat about their collections, show their collections, and be a part of Collecting The Precious. We’re super excited to put this out there, and we hope you all love being a vital member of our Fellowship as we show how we collect the precious.
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Month: May 2018
This Saturday at 6pm ET, we continue our Fellowship of the Ring read-through in Hall of Fire with the second half of the Council of Elrond chapter.
At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice.
“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”
Continue reading “Hall of Fire chats FOTR this weekend: the Council of Elrond”
Until I read this article the other week over on The Mainichi I never realised that butterburs — as in Barliman Butterbur — were a type of flower.
Specifically, it’s the name for some members of the Petasites genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. Continue reading “The woods burst to life with tasty butterburs”
“One does not simply walk into Mordor.”
This is great. Writer-comedian Stephan Krosecz (who I’ve been a fan of since his very amusing Abridgement ofthe first season of the Attack on Titan anime) observed that Boromir’s walk into Mordor monologue from Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring could make a great premise for a heist film.
So he went away and did it. Check it out, it’s very clever — love the music. Continue reading “Walk into Mordor: ideal premise for a heist movie”