Well its been a few days with our new website, and some initial bugs are making themselves apparent. The most significant is how news is displayed for Ringers with Windows and IE 6 (Internet Explorer 6). We are working on that problem and hope to have a resolution soon. In the meantime, you may want to consider updating to Internet Explorer 7 or using Firefox.

The New TORnTheOneRing.net would like to welcome you to the brand new website! Before we review some of the new highlights, we owe you an explanation of just what happened and why we’ve been offline for the last few days.

While we wish we could say we had some exciting Hobbit Movie announcement as the reason we were offline, the real reason was nothing so glamorous.
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Cate Blanchett talk HobbitUnless you’ve been hiding under a hobbit hole, you are well aware that that this Saturday is not only Frodo and Bilbo’s Birthday, but also the 70th Anniversary of the publication of ‘The Hobbit.’ If you were a certain big-time Hollywood studio in charge of bringing ‘The Hobbit’ to the big-screen, don’t you think this major event would inspire some kind of announcement from any party involved? An action like that would do wonders for repairing any tensions between this said Hollywood entity and the world of Tolkien fandom. Just our two cents – take it or leave it! And as always, if any people-in-the-know want to anonymously send us some juicy mathoms to honor this special Anniversary, feel free to email us directly at spymaster@theonering.net.

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The first annual movies.com reader poll results came out today, thanks to you TheOneRing.net was named best ‘Unofficial Movie Site’. Thanks for voting!!!

The Lord of the Rings series won ‘Favorite Movie’ while Orlando Bloom took ‘Hottest Upcoming Male’ and his Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest took home the ‘Favorite Action Movie’. Also, a big shocker of the night was Peanut beating plain as the best ‘M&M Fetish’…who knew! Check out all the winners here. [More]