TheOneRing.net is pleased to announce it has two new t-shirts styles on sale starting today in several colors. The much requested “Don’t Make Me Get My Ring” shirt is finally on sale and due to demand, we have also made available a new printing of “The Return of the One Party” shirts. But, that isn’t all, there are still a few more surprises.
TORn has made available the much discussed (at least in emails to staff) “DON’T MAKE ME GET MY RING” shirts in popular convention color navy blue. We are also excited about our new design color “natural” which comes with bronze lettering and features two color printing, front and back. We love these shirts and we hope you do as well. They are $20 including shipping, $25 for XXL.
In addition, we have a batch of “Ring” shirts that were printed on the wrong color with the wrong ink – stonewashed blue with gold/yellow lettering. These shirts are being made available at $15 each, including shipping until our current stock is gone. They will never be re-printed so any orders taken after they sell out will be promptly refunded. No other refunds will be given.
We also are happy to offer fans “Return Of The One Party” shirts from our One Party printer. Previously only available on the night of the event, these shirts are $22 including shipping and come in sizes up to 4X for the same cost. They are available in red and sapphire blue. If you missed it, the TORn sponsored party was praised in media the world over as THE party on the night of the Oscars. Many of you joined us on the live webcast of the event and all of you made it possible for a web site forged by and for fans to throw a world-class party which has since been mentioned on talk shows and in international magazines. We hope you will wear our official party gear with pride.
Finally, we appreciate all the support you have given our shirt effort in the last couple of months. We have enjoyed hearing from fans excited to receive their gear. We use 100% cotton 6.1 oz. high-quality shirts that we hope you love. We try to keep our prices low and the money raised from shirt sales goes to keep the website on-line. We think our best shirts are still to come including a special ‘Thank You’ shirt sometime this summer. We also will have hats and a few other TORn items available. Thanks for your support. If you have questions e-mail them to Tshirts@TheOneRing.net.
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The entire supplement hit stores March 20th. To quote Games Workshop’s release:
“The Siege of Gondor is the second of Games Workshop’s supplements for The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game (the first being the recent Shadow & Flame) and continues the ongoing support for tabletop battles in Middle-earth. This 64 full color page book will augment the rules with sieges, war machines, and more reflecting the kind of large-scale battles seen in The Return of the King. Players will also get rules for new war machines for Gondor and Mordor to augment their armies, plus new characters and key locations of combats. The Siege of Gondor is an invaluable supplement for gamers looking to expand their armies beyond small skirmishes and into larger scale battles. Future supplements are already in work to provide even more for players as well, drawing also on the literary works as well as the motion pictures.
This supplement is an invaluable guide to collecting, modelling and gaming with Games Workshop’s detailed The Lord of The Rings miniatures. Within its colorfully illustrated pages you will find essential rules, information, and inspiration to bring the battles of Middle-earth to your own tabletop.
RULES The complete gaming rules for fighting sieges around Middle-earth, together with new warriors for the forces of Good and Evil – including the noble Citadel Guard of Minas Tirith, the brutal Morannon Orcs, destructive Siege Engines and many more.
SCENARIOS Six linked scenarios recreate the desperate battle for Gondor as Sauron sends forth his legions, from the struggle for Osgiliath to the battle in the streets of Minas Tirith. In the appendix, two additional scenarios allow players to re-enact the tense and dramatic siege of Helm’s Deep.
MODELLING TIPS Detailed advice on how to prepare your fortifications and siege towers, together with inspiring photographs of all the new models and scenery that have been designed for this book.”
Lhunsarniel writes: Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, I was volunteering for the 18th annual Genesis Awards show wherein Sean Astin and his wife were guests and presenters. I got to escort them both to their table (they arrived late). The Genesis Awards will air on the Animal Planet channel early to mid-month April.
As I was walking them to their table, they were intercepted by someone from the Born Free Foundation who chatted with Sean about big cats in captivity and their plight as well as the fact that Virgina McKenna was an honorary at our awards program. Sean seemed genuinely interested in this issue so I’d say we may see him and his wife both more active in animal rights issues which is a big plus for us animal lovers and the Humane Society of the US! I wanted to chat a wee bit with him myself, but with him being a late arrival, I had to get him to his table.
Then, when Sean was up on stage doing the intro for his segment, he said he this was his first Genesis awards show and we certainly hope it’s not his last.
If you’re interested in knowing more about the Genesis Awards, check out www.genesisawards.com
Here are some Lord of the Rings related programs on tv in the UK this week:
2DTV (Animation) Starting: 01:00 on Saturday 27th March on ITV1: Topical animated comedy show. Featuring a look at the secrets of the Victorian Sex and the City, a look at a royal corgi funeral, a magical battle between Lord of the Rings magician Saruman and David Blaine, and what has happened to the Friends now the final series has ended.
DVD Clinic (Entertainment) Starting: 23:30 on Friday 26th March. Duration: 30 minutes: Showing on ITV1 London.
Neil McLachlan presents a round-up of the week’s DVD releases including the Oscar-winning animation from Miyazaki Hayao, Spirited Away; Lucy Liu in the sci-fi thriller Cypher; the US documentary about kids hoping to win a spelling contest in Spellbound; and an interview with Lord of the Rings star Billy Boyd.
Barbara is a reviewer who got the opportunity to interview Viggo Mortensen recently. She sent in this report:
“Okay. I admit that I was beginning to get a bit tired of all those stories that describe Viggo Mortensen as the proverbial Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes. But the thing is — he _is_. He did a day of interviews to promote HIDALGO in Munich yesterday, and when I arrived at the Hotel Mandarin Oriental, right next to the Hofbr>=uhaus (after spending a blissful hour sipping coffee and reading a book in the first real spring sun at the Viktualienmarkt), they were hopelessly behind schedule. One reason for that was that Viggo, who had a terrible cold, returned twenty minutes late from his probably much-needed lunch break. The other was that the guy lugged a carton of books with his photographies from interview room to interview room all day, in order to sign and personalize one for every journalist. Which wasn’t only tremendously nice, it was also time-consuming. (I’m told he does that in every city — he’s making the rounds in Europe, Scandinavia and Spain last week, Rome today, London on Wednesday, then home. He _does_ have the books pre-sent to the hotels, though. )
“So the six of us (a terribly incongruous group that kept getting into each other’s way during the interview) sat there, grouped around the proverbial round table, when in came Viggo, wearing socks, beige slacks, a plaid shirt and a United Nations fleece jacket, lugging his carton and a bottle of mineral water. He asked how everybody was, made sure our recording devices were all set, and set to work. Questions ranged from what he’s going to do next (relax, get back in shape, spend some time with his family and T.J., his horse, and then consider what’s on offer — no concrete next project yet), how and why he chose HIDALGO (because he liked it enough to make it fit in even though he was still pretty much tied up with LOTR), what it was like to shoot in Morocco and to work with Omar Sharif (great because of the different, real cultural dimension; Sharif’s one of the greatest living actors — “for me, good acting is good re-acting” — able to do the subtle stuff that awards are made of, and that he added the film-historical connection with LAWRENCE OF ARABIA), the Long Riders Guild’s claims that Hopkins’ story is a tall tale (Bullshit! ), about the revival of the Cowboy movie (for him, despite the efforts of certain American presidents to use the cowboy image to as a bully image, cowboys are movie archetypes like knights, so he welcomes it, also as a chance for folks like legendary wrangler Rex Peterson to stay in work), commonplace stuff like that.
“Of course his answers were much longer than my summaries — four to six minutes each — so it was frustrating when 18 minutes into my mp3 recording the publicist came in and said “last question”. Interesting tidbit: One of the Natives he worked with during the shoot is offering him a mustang mare that is supposed to be a descendant of the historical Hidalgo. While he said that he isn’t sure if he can handle another horse in his life, he finds the offer tempting because it would give him the opportunity to breed her to T.J., one of the film’s Hidalgos that he also bought (by the way, Uraeus and Kenny, his two LOTR horses, are not “on his ranch in Idaho”, as the APHA press release states, but they’re still in New Zealand, because Viggo thinks of maybe moving there permanently.)
“Disarming moment: When he wanted to show the group a photo of Uraeus and realized that he had no more copies of his horse book in his carton, so I handed him mine, which I’d ordered and got in the nick of time, and he asked where I got it, so I said I bought it, and he said: THANKS! So, yeah, he is everything the articles say: Decent, soft-spoken, but also outspoken, with a quiet sense of humor and, well, just good to talk to. I wish we’d had about an hour longer, but I knew what I was in for, and I wanted a general impression, and that, I got.”
THE TOLKIEN FAN’S MEDIEVAL READER by Turgon of TheOneRing.net 400 pages, $14.95 ISBN 1-59360-011-9 Published by Cold Spring Press Publication date: March 25th
Brought together in one volume for the first time, The Tolkien Fan’s Medieval Reader presents many of the medieval texts that were important to Tolkien’s professional work and to his fiction. Selected and edited by TheOneRing.net’s own Turgon, who also wrote the introductions to each section, this is a unique resource that Tolkien fans will want on their bookshelf!
Prose versions of such marvel-filled works as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson—three classics that every fantasy fan will enjoy on their own merits. Many will also appreciate seeing firsthand how these works, and others in this book—from Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, the Celtic languages and Finnish—served as inspiration for elements in Tolkien’s great imaginary world of Middle-earth: dragons, elves, dwarves, monsters, magical swords and heroes.
“These are texts that Tolkien knew intimately, that he lived with, studied, taught, edited, translated, and absorbed into his magination as a sponge absorbs water. . . .This book is a feast of medieval narrative from all over the Northern European and British worlds, cooked up by authors known and unknown out of the plentiful ingredients of myth and legend and folktale, and beautifully served for the pleasure and enlightenment of the contemporary reader.”
From the “Foreword” by Verlyn Flieger, author of Splintered Light: Language and Logos in Tolkien’s World and A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faërie.
TORn has made available the much discussed (at least in emails to staff) “DON’T MAKE ME GET MY RING” shirts in popular convention color navy blue. We are also excited about our new design color “natural” which comes with bronze lettering and features two color printing, front and back. We love these shirts and we hope you do as well. They are $20 including shipping, $25 for XXL.
We also are happy to offer fans “Return Of The One Party” shirts from our One Party printer. Previously only available on the night of the event, these shirts are $22 including shipping and come in sizes up to 4X for the same cost. They are available in red and sapphire blue. If you missed it, the TORn sponsored party was praised in media the world over as THE party on the night of the Oscars. Many of you joined us on the live webcast of the event and all of you made it possible for a web site forged by and for fans to throw a world-class party which has since been mentioned on talk shows and in international magazines. We hope you will wear our official party gear with pride. 
