WhiteLadyEowyn writes: Greetings fair Shire Folk! In less than a week, more than a hundred of your fellow Tolkien fans will be gathering in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky for A Long Expected Party! If you are curious about the event at all, we have posted a schedule on our website, so you can have some idea of what we have in store for the attendees. See those of you that are attending in a few days!

Quickbeam writes: This coming Sunday, September 21st, promises to be idyllic for Angelinos gathering in Griffith Park for our Annual Bilbo & Frodo Baggins Birthday Picnic. TORn is also very excited to announce the genesis of new PODCAST episodes that will be shooting live footage during the Los Angeles Picnic!

In shock as you must be, you are probably saying to yourself: “What?? A new podcast?! I remember TORn Digital episodes from years ago, but what is this wily Ent talking about?” Continue reading “A Long-Expected Picnic & an Unexpected Podcast”

Hobbit House
Hobbit House
Tony Wrench was toasting victory over the planners yesterday with a glass of wine made from the vines that grow on the turf roof of his wooden roundhouse. After ten years of planning battles, during which he and his partner, Jane Faith, faced having to demolish the home they had built themselves, they have finally won the right to stay. The roundhouse, known officially as “That Roundhouse”, was built in a hidden corner of a farm in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. It has a grass roof and walls built from cob – a combination of mud, straw, sand and water – and 16in (40cm) logs. A skylight was salvaged from an old coach and a milk churn is used as a stove. Hobbit House Saved from Demolition