djdeathskiss writes: ORC attendees may be interested in this, it was posted on worldwithoutsundays.com: Sun, January 22, 2006 – Old Towne Pub That’s right! Just in time to see us after ORC on Sunday! World Without Sundays (who perform on ‘Ringers: Lord of the Fans’) will be playing at the Old Towne Pub located at 66 N Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA. Show starts at 8pm. For directions or more information about Old Towne Pub check out their website.
Category: Events
caoil writes: Mellyn Annui, our Tolkien group here on the shores of the sea (Vancouver, BC) is having a Trilogy Day on Saturday, January 28th. If there are other Ringers out there who might like to join us, please email me at westernringers@yahoo.ca for further details (we need final numbers by Jan 21, so email soon!). We are starting the movies at 9:00am that day. There will be some breakfast snacks available (though if you want second breakfast, you should bring it yourself). Costumes are definitely encouraged.
Helen writes: I just wanted to pass along that McMenamins Kennedy School in Portland, Oregon is hosting this event on Saturday, Jan. 21: J.R.R. TOLKIEN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, With music by The Buds of May and the “LOTR” film trilogy! [More]
9 a.m. for film trilogy
2 p.m. for events
7 p.m. for music Free All ages welcome
* Costume Contest
* “The Hobbits Greatest Hits”
* Balloon Guy
* Trilogy showing benefits Oregon Food Bank ($3 or 2 cans of food)
From ‘Telcontar’ at LOTR Chicago Fellowship: Live near Chicago? Well, pull out your LOTR garb and join us for a party filled with costumes, food, and a viewing of ‘Return of the King’ [extended version] on a 12-foot screen with Dolby surround sound system. Whether you’re dressed as a Hobbit, Elf, Dwarf, Wizard, Orc or Ent–or just as a fan!–please show your love of Middle Earth and LOTR fandom and come watch the shows! [More]
Whitney Pastorek writes: How do you make a stage musical out of a story that took more than nine butt-numbing hours to tell on film? Matthew Warchus, director of The Lord of the Rings musical (currently in rehearsals and set for a March 23 world premiere in Toronto), told Entertainment Weekly’s Whitney Pastorek what he’s learned during the three years spent adapting Tolkien’s trilogy into a world-music-based, three-and-half-hour experience. (Step one: Plan for two intermissions.) [More]
This Saturday (January 14th), Hall of Fire is going to the geek side. Instead of a topic chat, we’ll be hauling out our copies of the Fellowship of the Ring EE DVD, dusting them off and popping them into the DVD player. And after the usual confusion, at around 5.30pm EST we’ll all press play on our individual DVD players and proceed to cheer and jeer (or discuss and argue, if you like!) the finer points of the film. [More]