Volume 90 / Issue 6
Volume 90/Issue 6
- Circulation: One thousand and forty-five. Welcome all!
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- • From TORn:
TORn Exclusive: Save $50 on One Man Lord of the Rings in NYC! - Attention New York, and surrounding area, Ringers! The very impressive and wildly popular ‘One Man Lord of the Rings’ show is coming to the Midtown Theater in New York City, and we’ve got an exclusive discount available to TheOneRing.net visitors.
Locations! Locations! Locations! - If you’re like me, you feel geeky excitement every time a new Hobbit filming location is announced or leaked. If the studios haven’t announced what’s being filmed there, it’s great fun to try to guess. If it’s already known what’s being filmed at a certain location (Hobbiton in Matamata is a pretty obvious example), it’s still fun to envision how scenes from “The Hobbit” will look there and/or try to spot new details in the locations and sets that weren’t there for the Lord of the Rings movies. …
A TORnTASTIC H5 - Billy Connolly Joins the Cast of The Hobbit!! Sean Astin interview - The latest episode of H5 is online!
Lord of the Rings LEGO Revealed at Toy Fare 2012 at Collector’s Party - heOneRing.net, along with 150 of our closest friends from the media and collector world, were granted access to a special Collector’s Party today at the International Toy Fare. Taking place at the Javits Center in New York City, this event showcased the entire 2012 line-up for LEGO, including their newly announced Marvel, DC and, of course, Lord of the Rings licenses. …
More Lord of the Rings LEGO Details from Toy Fare 2012 - As promised, here’s a bit of a follow-up (Early Gallery) on some of the materials that were given out concerning the upcoming The Lord of the Rings LEGO Collection. In this post you will find an image, title, description and price for the initial six sets, as well as the Target exclusive set.
• From Shaun Gunner Press Officer for
The Return of the Ring:
There are only a few days left in The Return of the Ring's competition to give any member of the public a chance to win a copy of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Extended Edition on Blu-ray.
The Return of the Ring, The Tolkien Society's spectacular summer event and extravaganza, will take place at Loughborough University in the Heart of England on 16th-20th August 2012. Guests include Tom Shippey, Ted Nasmith, Verlyn Flieger, Kate Madison (director, Born of Hope), Chris Bouchard (director, The Hunt for Gollum), Corey Olsen (The Tolkien Professor), Jef Murray and, our Guest of Honour, Brian Sibley.
For a chance to win The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Extended Edition on Blu-ray, all you have to do is like The Return of the Ring's Facebook page before the 14th February, Valentine's Day: http://www.facebook.com/ReturnoftheRing. The competition to open to anyone in the world, and to both new and pre-existing fans of our Facebook page; closing date is midnight on the 14th February, after which one current fan will be selected at random.
For more information about the event, you can visit our brand new website http://www.ReturnoftheRing.org. You can also find The Return of the Ring on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ReturnoftheRing.
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- The Gifts in Small Packages by December (Rating: R; with Faramir & Pippin, Aragorn, Unknown; Pippin will never speak of it. And then he does. Added: Chapter 11; Warnings: angst, faintly AU.; 13403 words; Work in Progress)
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• tolkien_weekly (drabbles) updates:
-- In the Wild (Bilbo, Aragorn, Rating: G) and Rivendell (Bilbo, Rivendell Elves, Rating: G) by azalaisdep
-- Footsteps (Finduilas, Imrahil, Rating: G) by wormwood_7
• From Faramir Fiction Archive:
New this week at the Faramir Fiction Archive, the archive that welcomes all fiction and art in which Faramir plays a major part, be it gen, het and slash, of any rating, in any language:
-- Archive Updates for the Week of February 10: OEAM News
-- The Prince’s Daughter - Chapter 25 Time Spent Wisely (Éomer/Lothiriel, Rating: NC-17, Éomer King had seen much. He survived war and grief and saw friends fall in love with the other half of their soul. He felt so alone until the delicate flower from Dol Amroth crossed his path and he fell in love with the lovely Lothiriel. But the road to happiness is often paved with sharp stones and nothing in life worth having is ever easy) and
Sons of Rohan--All Things Must Pass (Gamling/Aglaril, Elfhelm/Arathea, Erkenbrand/Éalwyn, Éomer/Lothiriel, Grimbold, Elfwine, OMC, OFC, Rating: NC-17, The valiant Sons of Rohan fought for peace and have found love, but the days of men are numbered and all things must pass) by gwaelinn
• b2mem:
New BINGO Cards Posted! by dawn_felagund
• lotricons:
A mixed icon post by ladyithildiel
- • lotr20in20 challenge: round 15: themes
Round 15 rules are here- Claims are due on February 29. Let's sigh up to be open due February 20.
• mome-awards: Nominations are now open!
Nominations are now being accepted for the Men of Middle-earth Awards! The details are here.
• tolkien_weekly: New challenge series
The next challenge series involves the parts of a sword. The first prompt is Pommel.
• eowyn-icontest challenge:
Don't forget to enter Challenge No 180, which closes on Friday at midnight (GMT).
• legolasicontest challenge:
Don't forget to enter Challenge No 127, which closes on Friday at midnight (GMT).
- • From lovethosehobbit: The Honorary Hobbit - Chapter 12 Departures (Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn, Elrond, Gandalf and a host of elves, Rating: G, The hobbits and elves depart with an injured Aragorn for Rivendell)
• lindahoyland Carefully Taught - Chapter 21 (Aragorn, Arwen, Éowyn, Faramir, Eldarion, no rating )
• ink-gypsy reposted Kissing It Better (Sean/Elijah, Rating: R, After Sean cuts his foot during filming, Elijah insists on taking care of him)
• Links from mews1945:
-- ink_gypsy Repost. A tender S/E ficlet. Memories In the Making.
-- frodosweetstuff F/S. In the aftermath of the war, a citizen of the city, suffering the pangs of hunger and resentment, determines to put a stop to a certain injustice that's been rumored concerning the hobbits. Hunger.
Thanks, Mews!
- • Via TORn Forums: Movie Discussion - The Hobbit
Billy Connolly is DAIN - http://www.stuff.co.nz/...y-Hobbit-great-dwarf.
- • From lotrips-finders:
-- pyleanelf - In search of several stories... - I wonder if someone here has saved the following stories. I've tried looking for them online and no luck, not even with the internet way back machine...
--silmarlfan1 Feanor fic - I remember a fic about Feanor being sent back to persuade Elladan and Elrohir to choose the fate of Elves. could you find it?
- Today's BOOK question contributed by elanorgardner: What is the next line that Gandalf recited after the Battle at Helm's Deep; "Ere iron was found or tree was hewn...."?
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