Celebriel would like to remind all San Francisco Bay Area Ringers that the San Francisco Symphony is performing The Lord of the Rings Symphony on July 14 and 15. Also, the Tolkien Friendship Society is meeting for food, conversation, and trivia right after the Saturday concert! All welcome, email tolkienfriends@earthlink.net for meeting place!
Category: Old Main News
Isabel writes: In Middle Earth in the quiet of the world, Gandalf convinces Bilbo Baggins to help Thorin recover the dwarves’ stolen gold and treasure. Their adventure is filled with danger as they encounter goblins, elves and trolls. Along the way Bilbo finds a magic ring which makes him invisible, a definite advantage when he meets Smaug, the ferocious dragon. [adventuretheatre.org]
July 8-August 13, 2006
Adapted by Markland Taylor
From the Book by J.R.R. Tolkien
Saturdays & Sundays 1:30 and 3:30
A ton of interesting new films are out on DVD this week. Take an early look on our ‘DVD Tuesday’ feature…every Monday! Check out Sean Astin’s ‘Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School’, National Geographic: Blackbeard – Terror at Sea, Negadon – The Monster From Mars and The HD DVD version of Pitch Black. [More]
A repeat airing of Ian McKellen on ‘Last Call With Carson Daly’ airs tonight on NBC. Daly, demonstrating his absolute lack of talk show host prowess, fumbles through most of the interview, calling himself a moron (rightly so) at one point. However Sir Ian was as charming as ever. He was there to promote his latest films, ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’. Unfotunately my TV connection did falter at a few points in the video, so it is NOT a computer error. Take a look! (29MB MOV)[More]
We are very pleased to announce a chat with Jeffrey Steefel, executive producer of the Lord of the Rings Online game. Join us in #TheHallofFire Monday, July 10th at 5:30pm to find out more about this exciting game!
Jeffrey Steefel joined Turbine, Inc in early 2004 and is currently the Executive Producer in charge of the upcoming MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online. LOTRO will be the first and only online persistent world based directly on the literary works of J.R.R Tolkien and will host a world-wide community of fans and gamers.
Jeffrey has been a professional in the Entertainment and Technology industries for almost 20 years, serving as Executive, Director, Head of Production, Principal Designer and Business Strategist for multiple new-media, entertainment and technology organizations ranging from young start-ups to media and technology giant, Sony. [More]
From ugo.com: Unless you’ve spent the past decade burrowed deep within the dirt walls of a Hobbit hole (probably partaking in dangerous amounts of hobbit leaf and getting chunky on too many Second Breakfasts) you must know of the sprawling Lord of the Rings franchise and its effect on the world we live in. J.R.R Tolkein’s epic masterpiece has inspired countless literary studies, college linguistic classes have taught the Elvish tongues, and an entire genre of fantasy entertainment rich with orcs and magic sprang to life from it (otherwise we’d have no Willow or The Beastmaster). [More]