News parody website The Onion strikes with this satirical article about Peter Jackson’s “genius marketing campaign”. “Did I…
Continue ReadingNews parody website The Onion strikes with this satirical article about Peter Jackson’s “genius marketing campaign”.
“Did I show you the birthday card I got from Bilbo this year?” added Jackson, holding up a pile of leaves. “He always remembers to send one. He’s a very special hobbit.”
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The film panels for Comic-Con’s 6,500 seat Hall H are beginning to shape up nicely, which helps TheOneRing know where its staff will be spending its time. Warner Bros. has booked a three hour slot on Saturday for the largest hall, and “The Hobbit” will likely be featured and be assured TheOneRing.net team will be there to fully report. Perhaps the Tolkien fans need to ready their sleeping bags. Rumors place significant “Hobbit” actors at the event but we have no confirmations at this time.
TheOneRing.net also has been invited by Comic-Con to present a “Hobbit” panel as we have done for several years in a row. We also expect to feature some cool bonus content from Weta Workshop and chat about our Gandalf / Fandalf effort. Exact times will be announced very soon, perhaps as soon as tomorrow so stay tuned. Continue reading “Official panel for ‘The Hobbit’ at Comic-Con 2012?”
Warner Bros. Consumer Products announced today that The Noble Collection has been granted rights to make products from The 
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and “The Hobbit: There and Back Again.” Noble will also be expanding their already fantastic “The Lord of the Rings” collection. Noble’s offerings will cover collectibles like prop replicas, artifacts, miniature-sized collectors swords and a full range of jewelry. Prices of these items will range from $20 to the neighborhood of $1000 with these items starting to ship in September of this year.
BURBANK, Calif., – June 12, 2012 – Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) announced: (Read the full press release after the break) Continue reading “Collecting The Precious – Noble Collection to make items from ‘The Hobbit’ and expand ‘LOTR’ line”
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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Today via a special newsletter the artisans at Weta have announced they will be producing many types of collectibles based on Peter
Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit. According to the newsletter the license covers both films of which The Hobbit is being split into with some of these items being on display at Comic-Con in just a little over a month. Obviously, this is very good news for fans of Middle-earth and we will make sure you get tons of pictures of anything Weta has at Comic-Con.
Read the full newsletter here: Weta Announces The Hobbit Collectibles license
“Sorry to be out of touch these past few weeks. It’s been very busy here on the set… What would you say to a little studio tour?”
Catch the video over on Peter Jackson’s Facebook!
And don’t forget to come back to TORn to share your thoughts… you can be sure our message board members will be analyzing this latest vlog frame by frame.
NOTE: Our own MrCere spent five weeks on this same location and he reports that the video blog captures the spirit of the set very well. He was delighted to see so many familiar faces and even reports that he watched some of this vblog being filmed.
