Join in the fun with TORn Tuesday! LIVE at 5pm Badali Jewelry will be calling in with their own report from DragonCon, and a Ringer gets a network sitcom with the new FOX show The New Girl! As always talk with folks in Barliman’s chat room LIVE. Check out the broadcast in our LIVE event section tonight at 5pm PST! [LIVE Event Area] (See All Times)

How’s your Tolkien trivia? Do you know the difference between a Balcoth and a Brandybuck? All the seven names for the Noldorin stronghold of Gondolin? How many great rings of power there were in total?

Well, if you’re up for the challenge, we’re powering up our trivia master Elrond for this weekend’s Hall of Fire session. Elrond knows more than 750 questions — some easy, some not so easy! So join us this evening (Saturday September 17) from 6pm EDT in #thehalloffire on our IRC server (irc.theonering.net) where we’ll be indulging in a fun battle of wits where that will test your Tolkien geekery to the limit! Continue reading “Try the Hall of Fire trivia challenge this weekend!”

Join in the fun with TORn Tuesday! LIVE at 5pm Quickbeam will be talking about all things DragonCon 2011 and his adventures on the road to it! As always talk with folks in Barliman’s chat room LIVE. Check out the broadcast in our LIVE event section tonight at 5pm PST! [LIVE Event Area] (See All Times)

We’re about to kick off our live discussion of chapter 12 of The Hobbit. Follow the link below to join our chat (anyone can join, we only ask that you’re polite, courteous and don’t swear) as we delve into the events of “Inside Information”!

We’re done! Thanks to everyone who came along for a fab discussion!

Tomorrow (or later today, for some of us), Hall of Fire returns to The Hobbit as we delve into the events of Chapter 12 — “Inside Information”.

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”

The party has found a way into the mountain, yet one insuperable obstacle remains — Smaug. Yet the seem dwarves reluctant to approach, leaving Bilbo to do all the work. What does it say about Thorin’s character that he pushes Bilbo to go into the darkness alone? And what does say about Balin that he chooses to accompany Bilbo part of the way when the others find it beyond them? Continue reading “Hall of Fire tomorrow: The Hobbit chapter 12 — Inside information!”

We’re just about to begin our weekly Hall of Fire chat. This weekend the topic is Gandalf: wizard, warrior, white rider. Gather your thoughts and come join the discussion through the link just below.

We’re done! Thanks to everyone who came along and made such a great chat!