Tolkien fans rejoice. Dust off your ring, reveal those elf ears and
revel in Middle-earth. “Into the West”, Lord of the Rings Fellowship of Utah invites you to participate in a full day of fun and frivolity. Activities include treasure hunt for the One Ring, Middle-earth dance, gaming, art room, workshops, vendors, crafts, lectures and keynote address by Professor Paul Hyde on the “Tapestry of Middle-earth.” Read more here
Category: Old Main News
Lorien “Ramen” Carney, Community Relations Specialist for The Lord of the Rings Online writes: Last Friday kicked off our public Open Beta program, giving players the opportunity to join the LOTRO World Tour and preview the game for free. Needless to say, things have really been ‘hopping’ ever since, and Open Beta was one of many topics discussed at last night’s Stratics House of Commons dev chat. Check out the chat transcript for the latest on the LOTRO music system, the economy, and future content plans!
We’ve also just posted a new game systems overview introducing LOTRO’s Fellowship Maneuvers system, the cooperative skill system that allows group members to discover and execute powerful team attacks on their foes! Game Systems: Fellowship Manuevers: Learn some of the finer points about LOTRO’s cooperative skill system for fellowships. [More]
This overview joins our ever-growing Game Systems section, where new players currently enjoying our World Tour or Fournder’s previews can learn the basics about LOTRO game play.
Ostadan writes: A French fan of Hasbro’s popular miniatures game “HeroScape” spent fifteen hours to create “HeroScape Moria”, inspired by The Lord of the Rings, from multiple copies of the game. His ‘making of’ gallery can be found here.
TORN Staffer Altaira writes: I thought you all might want to reminisce a little. One of the message board members pointed out that it was eight years ago today that TORn posted it’s first news stories on the Home page. She also included a few of those first stories, and a pic of the original staff (see how young you all look? ;-P). If you haven’t signed up for the boards yet, what are you waiting for? Click on the “Sign me up!” link in the lower left. [More]
The world premiere of Part Two of LEITHIAN, an opera by by Adam Klein, will be presented Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 3 PM and Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 7 PM, at the music hall of St. Michael’s Church, 225 West 99th Street, New York City. [More]
Author Kristin Thompson sends along word of her new book due out soon ‘The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood’. The book is available on Pre-Order at Amazon.com: ‘”Once in a lifetime.” The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. The film’s seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and hundreds of ancillary products attest to its importance and to the fact that Rings is far more than a film. Its makers seized a crucial moment in Hollywood–the special effects digital revolution plus the rise of “infotainment” and the Internet–to encourage existing fans while fostering a huge new international audience. The resulting franchise of franchises has earned billions of dollars to date with no end in sight. Kristin Thompson interviewed seventy-six people to examine the movie’s scripting and design and the new technologies deployed to produce the films, videogames, and DVDs. She demonstrates the impact Rings had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema. In fast-paced, compulsively readable prose, she affirms Jackson’s Rings as one the most important films ever made.’ [More]