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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Big Mike writes: I don’t remember if you linked to the great xkcd comic when they did a character interaction map for LOTR, but it’s now avaliable as a poster. Click here
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TORN is an acronym for TheOneRing.Net, a popular Lord of The Rings fan site. The TORN Geek Tag™ is cast in sterling silver and is available as a necklace or key chain. The necklace includes an 18″ long silver colored bead chain. The TORN Geek Tag™ measure 26.5 mm (just over 1″) long, 14.8 mm (just under 5/8″) wide and 1.2 mm (1/16″) thick. Get Your Geek On™.
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Smaug clutches the Arkenstone, the Heart of the Mountain™ to his chest. The Arkenstone is a 10 mm (3/8″) Swarovski Crystal sphere. The ring is cast in solid sterling silver and is available in US sizes 5 to 13, in whole and half sizes. Sizes 13 ½ (13.5) and larger are an additional $15.00 US.
The ring measures approximately 16.4 mm (5/8″) top to bottom, 19.7 mm (3/8″) thick and 3.1 mm (1/8″) wide at the back of the band. The ring weighs approximately 9.9 grams. Weight will vary with size.
This ring comes in a two-piece black ring box.
Includes Card of Authenticity.
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Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas.
They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more.
No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by Tolkien’s inventiveness in this classic holiday treat.
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“Once in a lifetime.” The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. The film’s seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and hundreds of ancillary products attest to its importance and to the fact that Rings is far more than a film. Its makers seized a crucial moment in Hollywood–the special effects digital revolution plus the rise of “infotainment” and the Internet–to satisfy the trilogy’s fans while fostering a huge new international audience. The resulting franchise of franchises has earned billions of dollars to date with no end in sight. Kristin Thompson interviewed seventy-six people to examine the movie’s scripting and design and the new technologies deployed to produce the films, video games, and DVDs. She demonstrates the impact Rings had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema. In fast-paced, compulsively readable prose, she affirms Jackson’s Rings as one the most important films ever made.
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