{"id":98109,"date":"2015-04-30T14:19:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=98109"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:38:30","slug":"tor-n-at-l-i-geek-convention-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/04\/30\/98109-tor-n-at-l-i-geek-convention-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"TOR.n at L.I. Geek Convention this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-98110 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/idx_guest_graham.jpg\" alt=\"idx_guest_graham\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/idx_guest_graham.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/idx_guest_graham-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/idx_guest_graham-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/idx_guest_graham-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TheOneRing.net will be at <a href=\"http:\/\/longislandgeek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Long Island Geek Convention<\/a> this weekend (May 2nd and 3rd) along with Dwalin himself, Graham McTavish!\u00a0In addition to having TOR.n t-shirts, buttons, and lanyards for sale at our fan table (or try your hand at Tolkien trivia for a fun prize!), we&#8217;re also participating in several panels throughout the weekend. Stop by and say hello!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00-12:00<\/strong> \u00a0<strong>Tales of the Hobbit with Graham McTavish;\u00a0<\/strong>Graham McTavish tells tales of his adventures as Dwalin in the Hobbit movie trilogy. \u00a0Hosted by Kirsten Cairns\/Greendragon from TheOneRing.net<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_481685142\"><span class=\"aQJ\">14:00<\/span><\/span>\u201315:00<\/strong> \u00a0<strong>Extended Edition, Biopics \u2026 Silmarillion? What\u2019s next for\u00a0fans of Middle-earth?;<\/strong><br \/>\nStaffers from TheOneRing.net speculate and share inside info on what\u00a0may be in the Extended Edition of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five\u00a0Armies. And once that is released \u2013 to what can fans look forward\u00a0next? Could The Silmarillion ever make it on to the big screen?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_481685143\"><span class=\"aQJ\">20:00<\/span><\/span>\u201321:00 \u00a0There and Back Again \u2013 a look back over the 17 year journey\u00a0through Peter Jackson\u2019s Middle-earth<\/strong>;\u00a0Staffers from TheOneRing.net get nostalgic! Join us as we recall the\u00a0journey from Fellowship to Five Armies \u2013 the ups and downs, the quests\u00a0to New Zealand, the fans and friends we met along the way. How has<br \/>\nyour passion for Tolkien and for these movies enriched YOUR life?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_481685144\"><span class=\"aQJ\">10:00<\/span><\/span>\u201311:00 \u00a0Tales of the Hobbit with Graham McTavish;\u00a0<\/strong>Graham McTavish tells tales of his adventures as Dwalin in the Hobbit\u00a0movie trilogy. Hosted by Kirsten Cairns\/Greendragon from TheOneRing.net<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_481685145\"><span class=\"aQJ\">13:00<\/span><\/span>\u201314:00 \u00a0Kick the Hobbit! All the things we love and hate about\u00a0Peter Jackson\u2019s second Middle-earth trilogy;\u00a0<\/strong>A love of Tolkien is the common bond shared by all staffers at\u00a0TheOneRing.net; and most of us also love Peter Jackson\u2019s Middle-earth\u00a0movies. But we still have our personal pet peeves \u2013 and now is the\u00a0chance to air them! Join us to let rip about those things which just\u00a0didn\u2019t work in The Hobbit trilogy \u2013 and maybe a few from The Lord of\u00a0the Rings trilogy, too! (We say it all with a great deal of\u00a0affection\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; TheOneRing.net will be at Long Island Geek Convention this weekend (May 2nd and 3rd) along with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,14,1295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-conventions","category-events","category-graham-mctavish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-pwp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98114,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98109\/revisions\/98114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}