Announcing the Cruise to Middle-earth: The Sequel, Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fellowship of the Ring.
TheOneRing.net staffer Garfeimao (aka Cathy) is planning our next Cruise to Middle-earth! Here’s all the details:
New Zealand will always be Middle-earth here at TORn. With that in mind, I am proud to announce a second cruise to Middle-earth. This is your chance to see the enchanting Land of the Long White Cloud and Middle-earth in the same place. Red Carpet Tours will be customizing short day tours for us from several of the ports, as well as a longer, optional post-cruise tour of locations not reachable from the ship.
This cruise will sail on the Celebrity Century from Sydney, Australia on November 30, 2011 and finish in Auckland, New Zealand on December 12, 2011. The bulk of the cruise will be in New Zealand waters, with stops at ports near several Lord of the Rings filming locations. The advantage of a cruise is that it acts as a hotel, a restaurant and transportation so that you need unpack only once during the cruise. It will give everyone in the group time to bond over dinner, to meet up during ‘at sea’ days to watch the films, and to even have a costume party. Exact optional tours are still in development at the moment, so please do contact me for more details.
Continue reading “Return to Middle-earth in 2011!”
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Congrats to Ringer Mike M from Tomball, TX!
This contest is now over – thanks to all those who participated!
To celebrate their Spooktacular event, Sideshow Collectibles has kindly offered fans of TheOneRing.net a chance to win the Gollum Premium Format Figure! Priced at $299, this figure (just announced on Tuesday and shipping 2nd Qtr 2011) features a swappable torso, so you can display either Smeagol or Gollum. And in case you want to display them both at the same time, they are including a separate base to accommodate. Since this giveaway is exclusive to TheOneRing.net, you’ll need to follow these directions to participate. Go to SideshowCollectibles.com and visit the Spooktacular Contests area. [right here] Click on the ‘Gollum Giveaway’ link near the bottom. Enter your details into the form and use the word ‘HobbitNZ‘ when prompted for the contest word. And that is it! One winner will be chosen at random on Saturday at 4pm ET, and we will post the winning name as an update to this story. You must be 18 years or older to win. Good Luck! [Gollum Figure]
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The folks from Spiderwebart send this along: Greg Hildebrandt and Spiderwebart Gallery will be in attendance at the third annual IlluXCon in Altoona, PA from November 11-14th. There will be new artwork on display, and Greg will be painting a new Tolkien piece, “Smaug Destroys Laketown,” during the entire show! Come to meet Greg and see all the fabulous artwork Spiderwebart Gallery is bringing to the show. Spiderwebart.com
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Paul Chai writes: The normally dry business of union politics turned to spectacle in New Zealand on Monday as Warner Bros. execs flew to Wellington under the threat of a canceled “Hobbit” production in hopes of gaining concessions from the industry and the Kiwi government.
A decision could come as soon as today on whether to keep production of two-picture “The Hobbit” from being moved to nearby Australia, the United Kingdom or Eastern Europe. Sources close to “Hobbit” producer/helmer Peter Jackson said Monday that finding a solution was still no better than a 50-50 proposition. Reps for Warner Bros. said they would have no comment until a decision is made. More..
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Caras Galadhon writes: Nothing short of the whole host of Mordor (and probably not even it) was going to keep me from today’s rally in Wellington’s Civic Square. After all, this was a chance to be there, see it all unfold, participate and maybe, just maybe, make a difference to the future of The Hobbit.
I arrived at a quarter after 12, while everyone was still slowly filtering in. Right off the bat, it was clear that this was going to be a positive event, as I saw many a smile as people drifted across the square, greeting friends, finding spots to stand or sit, and snapping pictures. It could not have been even a full ten minutes before someone offered me a balloon; the square was full of them, brightly coloured and bobbing along to the beat of music playing from the loudspeakers near the City-to-Sea Bridge.
Plenty of people had brought along signs welcoming Warner Bros. to New Zealand and affirming that the only place for Middle-earth is right here. Cast, crew and public mingled shoulder-to-shoulder, and I saw plenty of jackets, shirts and other paraphernalia identifying people’s roles in various Peter Jackson productions sprinkled liberally among the crowd. I wasn’t the only non-New Zealander there, as while I was sporting my Canada/New Zealand flag pin, I also overheard people identifying themselves as American, and more than one of the speakers we were about to hear came from further afield than the North and South Islands. Continue reading “Report with Pics: Hobbit Rally – Wellington”
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My name is Ray from Wellington, New Zealand! I was at the Wellington Rally for The Hobbit today. I took along my camera and just finished piecing together the speeches. Here’s a link to the finished video, please do share it on the site! The picture is me..I brought along my shards of Narsil Sword and some face paint. It was enough to get me on the news here in NZ lol. Enjoy – it was an awesome event and I felt very honored and lucky to be part of it. Click to watch
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