United Cutlery, makers of some of best sword replicas on the market, is back in Middle-Earth! UC will be creating replicas of many of the items you will see in this winter’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Over the next several days we will introduce the many items that UC has up on their website now, as well as items that will be coming out in the future for collectors to add to their collections. The first item we bring to you is Bilbo’s sword Sting which has been recreated in stunning detail. Of course, every sword needs a scabbard so collectors will also be able to purchase Sting’s scabbard. Sting can be Pre-Ordered from Budk right now for $130. The scabbard will be available for Pre-Order in December.
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Welcome to our collection of TORN’s hottest topics for the past week. If you’ve fallen behind on what’s happening on the Message Boards, here’s a great way to catch the highlights. Or if you’re new to TORN and want to enjoy some great conversations, just follow the links to some of our most popular discussions. Watch this space as every weekend we will spotlight the most popular buzz on TORN’s Message Boards. Everyone is welcome, so come on in and join in the fun!
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Last week, the artisans at Weta announced 19 amazing items for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, including the Key to Erebor, Thorin’s Map, Thorin Oakenshield statue, Gandalf The Grey statue, Bilbo Baggins statue, Art Prints, Map replicas, and much more. All of the items are up for Pre-Order now with several of them being in-stock ready to arrive to your collection. To celebrate the arrival of these great items, TheOneRing.net and Weta teamed up to give away two of them: Thorin’s Map and the Key to Erebor. Both contests were highly popular with entries hitting the 500 mark for each. It was obvious by all these emails that fans wanted to get one of these amazing collectibles shipped and on the way to their house. We’re happy to announce that the winner of Thorin’s Map is C. Bull of Australia and the winner of the Key to Erebor is B. Sprinkle of Virgina. Congratulations to you both!
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Update: as hinted in the circle in the top right of the pictured magazine, The One Ring.net has partnered with Topix Media Lab to produce a beautiful collector’s edition magazine about The Hobbit. Side-bars and feature articles, contributed by TORn staff, include interviews, character and actor profiles, a comparison of the book vs. the movie, articles on games and collectibles, a wonderful Middle-earth timeline and much, much more. The magazine is also packed with colorful pictures of cast and crew members, locations, collectibles, gorgeous fan art and a few exclusives! One thing that makes this truly a collector’s edition is that there are only two ads in the entire magazine. The magazine hit shelves in the last 24 hours in stores such as Barnes & Noble and Wal-Mart, but be sure and also look anywhere magazines are sold. It is currently only available in the U.S., so be especially nice to your U.S. friends and maybe they’ll find one or two and send them along.
We at TheOneRing would like to thank all of you who come visit us an who have helped make our journey together the best fan experience ever. Following is our tribute to you from inside the magazine: “J.R.R. Tolkien wrote some of the most inspiring novels of all time. “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “The Hobbit” have inspired television specials, movies, musicals, and now, this magazine. But this isn’t a book about The Hobbit (though there’s plenty of coverage of Peter Jackson’s upcoming films). This is about you, the fans. TheOneRing.net has covered all things Tolkien for more than ten years, and was forged for fans, by fans. This tribute magazine is created in that spirit.”
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Following up on the fantastic start to their The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey line of collectibles, these next three items will surely be must haves for anyone collecting Hobbit items. Last night, our friends from The Noble Collection released previews of three awesome, fully cast bronze statues of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf The Grey, and Thorin Oakenshield. Pre-Orders for these three amazing items start in just ten days, when The Hobbit section of their website goes live, but you do have time to save up – these won’t be shipping until December.
Full breakdown of these three items after the break:
Continue reading “Collecting The Precious – The Noble Collection Bronze Statues From The Hobbit”
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Living in the wastelands of Angmar these Snow Trolls would adorn themselves with the furs, bones, and skulls of their victims. The most recent statue from Sideshow Collectibles The Lord of the Rings statue line comes to us not from the movies, but from last years awesome game The Lord of the Rings: The War in the North. While not from anything Tolkien wrote himself the game does allow fans of Middle-Earth to venture into events that could have happened during The War of the Ring.
The game takes place during the events of The War of the Ring, but you’re not playing as the Fellowship, you play as one of three characters: Eradan the ranger, Farin the Dwarf or Andriel the Elf, as you aide the Fellowship in stopping Sauron’s plans to take the North, making things much harder for Frodo to complete his quest. During your trek through the North, and the beauty in that area of Middle-Earth, you battle numerous Orcs, crazed Men, and of course Trolls. One of the variations of Trolls you will come across as you play the game is this Snow Troll. Sideshow Collectibles in conjunction with this game was asked to create one of these Trolls for collectors to add to their Middle-Earth collections.
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United Cutlery, makers of some of best sword replicas on the market, is back in Middle-Earth! UC will be creating replicas of many of the items you will see in this winter’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Over the next several days we will introduce the many items that UC has up on their website now, as well as items that will be coming out in the future for collectors to add to their collections. The first item we bring to you is Bilbo’s sword Sting which has been recreated in stunning detail. Of course, every sword needs a scabbard so collectors will also be able to purchase Sting’s scabbard. Sting can be Pre-Ordered from Budk right now for $130. The scabbard will be available for Pre-Order in December.
