Irascian writes: I’ve just posted the transcript of Billy Boyd’s second Ring*Con panel along with a bunch of photo’s. Take a look! [More]
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Moffel writes: Billy Boyd will be on German TV Wednesday, Dec.1st. He will be on a show called “Die besten Filme aller Zeiten” (The best movies of all time) on Kabel 1(channel) at 20.15. The show will feature Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in its Top 20 and Billy will be there and talk about the experiences he made while shooting the movie in NZ.
Joey writes: I put together a pretty comprehensive report of Sean Astin’s book signing in Philadelphia on the 22nd. Bits of it are about my personal experience with friends and getting to meet him, but most of it is simply what I remember from his talk and other little details about the night. [More]
It’s time to open the nominations for the One Ring Awards, to be held at The One Ring Celebration in Pasadena, CA on January 15, 2005. Half the awards will be for events held at the convention, such as the Art Show, Fan Film Festival and the Costume contest. The other half will be voted on by you, the best LOTR fans on the net. Please send all nomination submissions to: OneRingAwards@theonering.net using the format asked for, thank you. Entries will only be accepted until December 10th, 2004. [More]
- Best Tolkien based Lecture or Paper presented at an Academic function
- Best Tolkien themed book published since the release of FOTR
- Best Performance by a LOTR actor/actress in a Motion Picture
- Best Performance by a LOTR actor/actress in a TV series, Made for TV Movie or Mini-Series on TV
- Best Fan Fiction (PG-13 or lower, no Slash)
- Best Fan site dedicated to a LOTR actor/actress
Congrats to Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh for winning the ‘Moonlight Projects AFI Award’ last night at the Australian Film Institute’s award show. [AFI.org.au]
In celebration of the Lord of the Rings 50th anniversary, Ted Nasmith presents slides of his paintings from the new edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel to the trilogy. Nasmith was commissioned for twenty-six new paintings. He will be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX today (Oct 31st). Nasmith will be joined by Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey at this event.