Volume 191/Issue 3

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Volume 191/Issue 3

Circulation: One thousand one hundred and eighty-eight. Welcome all!

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MEDIA NEWS:

• From TheOneRing.net:

~Collecting The Precious -- Weta Workshop's Witch-king & Frodo at Weathertop
Yesterday, this amazing looking collectible of the Witch-king and Frodo at Weathertop went up for pre-order from our friends at Weta Workshop. Today, only 24 hours later, this statue is already showing as being "low on stock." [More]

~Collecting The Precious -- Star Ace Toys Defo-Real Balrog Review
Last year we teamed up with the folks at Star Ace Toys to talk about their Defo-Real Ringwraith. Well, we're pleased to do it again, this time we're talking about their Defo-Real Deluxe Balrog. This version of the Balrog is stylized, similar to the way the Ringwraith has been done. [More]

~Collecting The Precious -- Iron Studios Gandalf the Grey Deluxe Statue
One of the newest players making collectibles based upon Middle-earth are the folks over at Iron Studios. They've got a ton of stuff coming out, which we will post about soon. Today, we want to talk about their 1:10 Gandalf the Grey statue. [More]

COMMUNITY NEWS:

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• tolkien_weekly (drabbles) updates:

And Sew it Begins... (Arwen; PG) by curiouswombat

CHALLENGES/WORKSHOPS/AWARDS:

• From tolkien_weekly:

~ Contronyms Challenge: Week 2, Bound
Bound: heading to a destination or restrained from movement. [ More]

• From silwritersguild:

~ Deadlines Approaching for "Archetype" and "Laws and Customs" Challenges
We had not one but TWO challenge deadlines approaching! Since I am late posting a reminder, then I am extending them to July 15, which is also when we will announce the new challenge. [ More]

FIC/ART NEWS:

• From AO3 - Archive of Our Own:

- TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
- Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
- The Hobbit - All Media Types
- The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings RPF
- The Hobbit (2012) RPF

DISCUSSIONS OF INTEREST:

• From TOR:

~Middle-earth's Event Horizon
In Which the Valar Launch a Pair of Satellites, Morgoth Makes a Stink About It, and Men Finally Get Their Act Together and Start Existing. As in the previous chapter, "Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor" begins with a bit of a jump backwards in time, returning to the point where the Noldor have only recently left in exile. We also come to a controversial part of Tolkien's legendarium--one the Professor himself was uneasy about, but which still exists organically from the myths he made. So let's talk about what’s going on here with the cosmology of Arda. [More]

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RESEARCH AIDS:

• From Ask About Middle-earth:

~The Best and Worst Stewards of Gondor
Compared to the kings, Tolkien doesn't tell us as much about the stewards of Gondor. I'd say they overall did a positive job, but since it would take too long to talk about all 26 of them, here are who I think were the best (and worst) ruling stewards. [More]

TRIVIA:

• Tuesday's MOVIE question: What item does Gollum retrieve from the Forbidden Pool?

Answer: A fish.

addie71, elwenlj, frolijahfan and helenllama all answered correctly.

• Today's BOOK question from estelanui: What was the name of the arrow that was sent from Gondor to Rohan when the former needed aid?

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