Garfeimao writes: Billy Boyd has just signed on to appear at The One Ring Celebration (ORC) in Pasadena, CA. on January 20-22, 2006. Since he had to cancel out at the last moment from ELF, due to filming commitments, this should make up for that loss. Billy will be joining John Noble, Sean Astin and Charles Ross, and yes, there are numerous others still in the works, so stay tuned. We feel that we will be bringing you an even better show than last year, but you will have to wait a little longer to find out why!
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Meet Alan Lee tonight in Denver, CO at ‘Tattered Cover’ (1628 16th Street). Alan will be signing copies of his latest book ‘The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook’ starting at 7:30pm. Alan is also keeping a travel blog of his book tour exclusively with TORN right here! [Alan Lee Travel Blog]
A BIG thank you to JPB for setting up the Blog for Alan’s book tour, you did a great job!!
More tour dates and locations are available here. [More]
The battle for Middle-earth comes to the PSP, and we take on the forces of evil in this preview. The epic battle over the fate of Middle-earth has been waged across many a venue in the video game realm, and now the fight comes to the PSP in the form of Lord of the Rings: Tactics. Covering the events of the entire trilogy, this turn-based strategy game brings back all the familiar faces and places for some tactical action. We ran through both the single-player and multiplayer games to see how the old enemies duke it out in the small-screen realm. [More]
Pre-Order ‘PSP The Lord of the Rings: Tactics’ for the Sony PSP on Amaon.com today!
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy got some of the credit for helping lure world tennis No 10 Nadia Petrova to January’s ASB Classic in Auckland. The Russian was announced today as the first big name player signing for the $US140,000 ($NZ200,630) women’s tournament from January 2-7. “I think you should be very thankful for the Lord of the Rings,” Petrova said. “I didn’t know anything about the country. The Lord of the Rings really influenced my decision. “I have seen the movie and really want to see the country now.” [More]
A series of three documentaries connecting Peter Jackson’s film trilogy of The Lord Of The Rings to environmental challenges facing New Zealand will be launched today. The three films, called The Middle-earth Connection, are directed and produced by Auckland film-maker David Jacobs, and focus on forests, agriculture and cities. Jacobs has used clips from Jackson’s films as a frame of reference. “The author of the Rings, J R R Tolkien, was an environmentalist and there are clear environmental values in the Rings,” he told NZPA. “The books promote what we would nowadays call sustainability. [More]
Lilia writes: I am so glad I live in Atlanta. Last night’s meet up with Alan Lee was so much fun! It was fun to think that my experience with meet up’s and getting to know other Ringers began with the Atlanta Moot back in June 2004 when I met Alan Lee for the first time. I arrived two hours early due to my astronomy lab getting out early and had a clear way all the way downtown. So I just hung around till about 5:45 when Shuya arrived. We both already had our books, so we didn’t need to get them. About 6:15 we took our seats in a little area they had set up for Mr. Lee to do his presentation. [More]