Tim Richardson, The Dork-rector of ‘The Dork of the Rings’ writes: Coming this December will be a FREE sneak screening on the “big screen” in South Bend, Indiana of clips and interviews from THE DORK OF THE RINGS, which is coming out in summer 2006. [More]
Category: Old Main News
Earlier today, TheOnering.net played host to the delightful Mr Alan Lee for a live Q&A in the Hall of Fire. Thanks to everyone who came along and asked a question. Big thanks also to Megan at HMCO for organising this as well as our lead moderator Alquawen and Balin, Daisy, Figgy and Jincey for their very able assistance! Here’s the log! And don’t forget that next weekend we’ll be discussing the Seven Deadly Sins and LoTR. [More]
Peter Jackson has no intention of buying the rights to China’s best-selling novel Wolf Totem. And he will not be raising wolves in New Zealand or having his Weta Digital company produce computer graphics of Mongolian wolves, either, says a spokesman for the New Zealand director, Matt Dravitzky. He was responding to an article in the New York Times that Jackson had acquired and planned to produce a film based on Wolf Totem. Mr Dravitzky said the newspaper had got it wrong and would be printing a correction. [More]
The Nashville Symphony Orchestra will be performing the LOTR Score at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee tonight (November 5th). Tickets are still available! Click here for more info and follow this link for more cities and showtimes! [More]
Toronto will play host to fantasy fans from around the world this weekend, as the Fantasy Worldwide International Film Festival launches its inaugural event. The three-day festival, which runs through Sunday, will showcase 31 films from six continents at Toronto’s Bloor Cinema…Highlights of the event include Lord of the Brush, a documentary biography of Canadian artist John Howe, who helped bring to life J.R.R. Tolkien’s world in Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings film trilogy. [More]
Alan Lee, the acclaimed LOTR illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual designer for the film trilogy, will join us in the Hall of Fire (on the TORn IRC server) today at 6pm EST for a live question and answer session! Alan will be answering questions on his work illustrating Lord of the Rings, his involvement with Peter Jackson and WETA as a conceptual designer for the Lord of the Rings film Trilogy and his new book The Lord of the Rings sketchbook. [More]