TheOneRing.net, with major sponsor The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, is leaving on the first ever live-streamed road trip across America tonight! Starting at approximately 10pm PT, our Fellowship of four will leave Los Angeles for the cozy comforts of DragonCon in Atlanta, GA. The 24/7 live video stream is provided by Stickam through a combination of LiveU mobile technologies, FMLE, Camtwist, along with Stickam iPhone and iPad apps. To follow their progress, we’ve set up a special sub site that allows you to communicate with the team in the truck, as well as track their progress live via GPS! If you want to say ‘Hi!’ just look for the Shadowfax Dodge with the TORn logo on the back! [Looks like this]  If that wasn’t exciting enough for you, joining them on this journey will be the Gandalf statue from the Gandalf World Tour (both US and Int’l Versions) – so expect to see Gandalf photos from some significant landmarks along the way. We also have a brand new T-Shirt premiering at DragonCon we think you will absolutely LOVE. Check out our T-Shirt offer and a unique opportunity to support our trip here. Our trip is corporately sponsored by The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, releasing November 1st in North America. Other sponsor’s include everybody’s favorite LOTR jeweler Badali Jewelry and “The Website for People Who Love Britain,” Anglotopia. We hope you’ll follow along as we trek across the country! [Roadtrip to DragonCon Sub Site] [Support the Trip – T-Shirts]

The hunt is on! With our lovely and talented former host Rebekah Platt moving on to the Mouse House at Disney, we are in need of a replacement host, and this is where YOU come in! Producers Daniel McNicoll and Michael Regina (hey, that’s me!) are on the hunt for the next host of ‘Hobbit in 5’, do you think you’ve got what it takes? We will be looking for qualified candidates and then have the fans, yes YOU again, vote on who will host the show! Because, trust me, you do NOT want to see Daniel and Michael at 720p in HD…it’s a frightening thought…

So, if you answer YES to the following questions, drop me a line at xoanon@theonering.net with the subject ‘I wanna host!’ to be entered!

DO YOU:

– Live in the Charlotte/Atlanta area?
– Feel comfortable in front of the camera?
– Enjoy giving interviews?
– Possess a passion and knowledge of Tolkien and his works?
– Possess a passion and knowledge of Peter Jackson’s films?
– Love for fantasy/sci-fi in general?
– Feel you can volunteer your time to host?

Visitors to the TORN panel at Comic-Con got a sneak peek at a very exciting adventure, and now it’s time to let everyone know.  TORN has teamed up with TheHobbitBlog.com to send Gandalf around the world with our Gandalf World Tour!

The Gandalf World Tour is a year-long, global event that kicked off at our Comic-Con 2011 panel and will conclude at Comic-Con 2012.  TheOneRing.net is managing and supporting the event and hopes fans like yourself will choose to participate!

The goal of the Gandalf World Tour is to document Gandalf’s travels around the world, with pictures and video of Gandalf at amazing landmarks over the course of the year.  Gandalf’s adventures will be documented through the GandalfWorldTour.com website, Facebook, Twitter, and right here at TheOneRing.net!

If you’re interested in hosting Gandalf, simply fill out the form at GandalfWorldTour.com.  We’ll send you more details and confirm your participation.  For those of you who have responded after Comic-Con, we have collected your names and will be in touch shortly.

Please let us know by next Wednesday, August 31.  The adventure is beginning! And you may be wondering, is Gandalf going on our DragonCon Roadtrip? Heck yea he is! [GandalfWorldTour.com]

TheOneRing.net, with major sponsor The Lord of the Rings: War in the North on board,  is heading to DragonCon in Atlanta, Georgia, via the roadways of America and broadcasting the event LIVE on TORn. Along the way we are taking our little Gandalf to get lots of photos with him and to meet TORn readers in a few cities along the way before we hand him off in Atlanta and send him to Europe!. (More about Gandalf soon as we unveil the whole project with a new website dedicated just to getting the statue in the hands of fans for photos and to “handoff the Gandalf.” Our trip is corporately sponsored by The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, releasing November 1st in North America. Other sponsor’s include everybody’s favorite LOTR jeweler Badali Jewelry and “The Website for People Who Love Britain,” Anglotopia.

Check our schedule below carefully and if we are coming to your area and you want to arrange a meetup, please email MrCere@TheOneRing.net with the subject “Road to DragonCon” and let us know if you can meet our estimated schedule as close to the freeway as possible. Continue reading “TheOneRing.net’s route to Atlanta’s DragonCon revealed!”

The group SF in SF presents a special charity fund-raiser screening tomorrow night (Aug. 25th) of the award-winning feature documentary RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS. The evening will feature a discussion featuring the film’s director, editor and also legendary fantasy author Peter S. Beagle. Doors and cash bar open at 6:00PM, the event begins at 7:00PM. The screening and discussion will be held in the Variety Preview Room Theater in San Francisco.

Peter S. Beagle is no stranger to The Lord of the Rings. He penned both the screenplay for the Ralph Bakshi animated adaptation and the introduction to the infamous 1970’s Ballantine re-issue of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Mr. Beagle is one of the many outstanding authors featured in RINGERS. A resident of Oakland, Beagle recently accepted the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Continue reading “SF in SF to Screen Indie Documentary, Ringers: Lord of the Fans”

Join in the fun with TORn Tuesday! LIVE at 5pm Quickbeam will be announcing some exciting things happening at TheOneRing.net and talk with Tolkien and Dreamworks Animation artists about dragons and fantasy! As always talk with folks in Barliman’s chat room LIVE. Check out the broadcast in our LIVE event section tonight at 5pm PST! [LIVE Event Area] (See All Times)