‘Trumpets Blaring’ The numbers have been ever increasing lately, and with a few hundred more ‘likes’ our official Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/TheOneRingnet) will have reached over ten thousand fans! Click on over to Facebook and add us as friends! Lets break 10 thousand and then work on 20 thousand! TheOneRing.net on Facebook.
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Bruce Hopkins has been very busy on his radio show lately, first up Bruce talks with Royd Tolkien, great grandson of JRR Tolkien, autjor of The Hobbit, Lord Of The RIngs, Silmirilian and a vast treasure of other books about films, alcohol and life! Listen Here.
Bruce also talks with Cliff, Quickbeam, Broadway who is a film maker living in the belly of Hollywood. Cliff is one of the drivers of the TORN website and producer of the doco ‘Ringers’. Listen Here.
Lastly, Bruce Hopkins chats with Michael Regina, head of the worlds largest Tolkien fan website, TheOneRing.Net, TORN, about how the current impasse between the producers and acting unions is affecting the fan base of the hugely anticipated Hobbit films. Listen Here.
Clever plot twist, or mere coincidence (with a very decided nod and wink to The Professor)? Either way, a September 22 birthday is shared by two of our favorite Hobbits: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. In true Hobbit fashion, we are throwing a party of special magnificence on our Main discussion board. Games, puzzles, poems and other fun activities abound, so be sure and stop by throughout the day and help celebrate!
From www.radiolive.co.nz: Bruce Hopkins chats to Michael Regina who along with Kiwi Erica Challis was one of the co-founders of the web site TheOneRing.Net. They were a couple of Tolkien fans who wanted to keep an eye on how the filming of Lord Of The Rings was progressing. Their subsequent website began getting 500,000 hits each day! TORN made history as a marketing tool for the film. Peter Jackson ended up supplying Michael with weekly video diaries of the making of King Kong. More..
To celebrate the addition of ‘There and Back Again – The Map of Tolkien’s The Hobbit’ by Brian Sibley to the Official Tolkien Online Bookstore, TheOneRing.net and HarperCollinsPublishers are teaming up to give you a chance to win a copy! This enchanting little clothbound hardback is an essential companion for any reader journeying through The Hobbit. Featuring an entertaining text and detailed gazetteer by acclaimed Tolkien author Brian Sibley, this gift edition also contains a removable fold-out poster-map of Wilderland by John Howe. We’ll choose (3) three winners on September 30th 2010 and post them right here on TheOneRing.net
The entry form is after the break. Thanks to Harper Collins for making this giveaway possible! And don’t forget to pick up your copies today at a local store or through your favorite online source. [Harper Collins UK]
The giveaway is now over! Winners are posted here.
Take a look at The Brothers Grim and Grimy ‘The Hobbit in under 2 Minutes.’ It is a rather modern retelling of the classic tale in …wait for it… under two minutes! Enjoy!