--------------5D13439D6AF1A73970B93832 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://theonering.net Newsletter V1 #39 Thursday April 20, 2000 Here it is the weekly newsletter! Enjoy.. Rings Roundup (Top headlines of major interest) WETA goes shopping: Here is some long-awaited piece of news from WETALand. They finally acquired a film scanner ( a device that is used to scan filmed plates into a computer for further manipulation). [More] Trailers to be seen THIS summer? Having gotten an email about this last week, I was wary, I assumed people thought the trailer we've all seen on the net will be in theatres, which I know will never happen, but now this from Cinescape. It seems we're going to see a NEW trailer in theatres perhaps THIS summer! Woo Hoo!!! [More] Utterly Cool Piece of Audio: This is a piece of coolness to make your day (morning afternoon, tea time, whatever) Check out this MP3 of JRRT reading from 'The Two Towers!' [More] New Editor/Stunt Man? Since the job of editing over 6 hours of footage and FX into three movies is going to be such an enormous task, it looks like they have added a third Kiwi editor to join Jamie Selkirk and John Gilbert IX. [More] WETA 'We're Hiring': In the latest issue of 'Cinefex Magazine' there is an add from WETA, they are looking for a few good computer wizards [More] Scouring of the Site (Breakdown of our various sections) Gaming Havens is keeping all you gamers up to date on the latest RPG/Fantasy/Sci-Fi games out there. Check it out daily for news. Green Books Deluge! A huge update for March has taken place at the GB: including an intense new Counterpoint by Anwyn, sixteen new Q&A articles, and a splendid continuance of Shaun Spain's "On The Tolkien Trail" with lots of photos. Don't forget to take "The Tolkien Geek Test" over in Moon Letters! The Official Peter Jackson Fanclub (TBHL) is always a fun place to snoop around and learn more of the man behind the movie. We care currently re working our members packages! Sign-up to receive great gifts! Are you a bastard yet? Palantir Premonitions (What's to come) Hall of Fire Chat Well Gandalf and Company have concocted something a bit different for next weekend's Hall of Fire chat. This time around we're going to take a character from the story and focus on him in depth. So.... This week's topic: Frodo Baggins This humble hobbit goes the distance for the Shire. What do you think about him? What characteristics or trademarks to you like of Frodo's? What is your favorite Frodo quote or deed? Some people say that this brave hobbit in fact failed his quest; what do you think? How does tragedy impact this character's life? Does Frodo have any tragic flaws or an Achilles' heel? Come share with us this Saturday, April 22 at 5:30 EST as we anylize the character of Frodo, son of Drogo, hero of Middle-earth. The place: The Hall of Fire; connect to Barliman's and type /join #thehalloffire Your hosts: Gandalf, Nazfyratu, and Tookish The time: Saturday, April 22, 5:30 EST (-5 hours GMT) [More] Heading to Imaginecon? A few of us at TheOneRing.net are packing our bags and road-tripping to Virginia Beach, VA for this year's Sci-Fi/Fantasy Convetion ImagineCon! (we should have left an hour ago, but thats besides the point...) Here is our schedule for this wonderful convention: Friday 4-6pm - How to design and maintain a fantasy based website (E2 Pavilion) Saturday 1-3pm - Secrets Revealed About the Lord of the Rings Movie (Rehearsal Hall Pavilion) If you are in the Virginia area please do stop by and say hello! Corvar, Blasm and myself would love to meet you! Check out the complete ImagineCon schedule : http://www.imaginecon.com Next Live chat Event Thursday, April 27 will mark our next 'TheOneRing.net Live Net Event' with Cinescape Magazine Editor in Chief Steve Hockensmith! Ask him your movie, magazine or publishing questions! What does he have planed as far as LOTR coverage? Be at Barliman's on April 27th! More news to come! See anything you want to add to the site? Have any suggestions as to chat guests, content items, or just want to say hi? Drop us a line at theonering@theonering.net, do you want to speak with a specific person? just type in their handle (i.e. Jincey = jincey@theonering.net). That's all for now, keep clicking, have fun and keep sending in those letters! I love to hear from you! Xoanon & TheOneRing.net Team http://theonering.net --------------5D13439D6AF1A73970B93832 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> http://theonering.net NewsletterV1 #39
Thursday April 20, 2000
Here it is the weekly newsletter! Enjoy..
Rings Roundup (Top headlines of major interest)
WETA goes shopping: Here is some long-awaited
piece of news from WETALand. They finally
acquired a film scanner ( a device that is used to
scan filmed plates into a computer for further
manipulation). [More]Trailers to be seen THIS summer? Having gotten
an email about this last week, I was wary, I
assumed people thought the trailer we've all seen
on the net will be in theatres, which I know will
never happen, but now this from Cinescape. It
seems we're going to see a NEW trailer in theatres
perhaps THIS summer! Woo Hoo!!! [More]Utterly Cool Piece of Audio: This is a piece of
coolness to make your day (morning afternoon,
tea time, whatever) Check out this MP3 of JRRT
reading from 'The Two Towers!' [More]New Editor/Stunt Man? Since the job of editing
over 6 hours of footage and FX into three movies
is going to be such an enormous task, it looks like
they have added a third Kiwi editor to join Jamie
Selkirk and John Gilbert IX. [More]
WETA 'We're Hiring': In the latest issue of
'Cinefex Magazine' there is an add from
WETA, they are looking for a few good computer
wizards [More]Scouring of the Site (Breakdown of our various sections)
Gaming Havens is keeping all you gamers up to date on
the latest RPG/Fantasy/Sci-Fi games out there. Check it
out daily for news.Green Books Deluge! A huge update for March has
taken place at the GB: including an intense new
Counterpoint by Anwyn, sixteen new Q&A articles,
and a splendid continuance of Shaun Spain's "On The
Tolkien Trail" with lots of photos. Don't forget to take
"The Tolkien Geek Test" over in Moon Letters!The Official Peter Jackson Fanclub (TBHL) is always a fun
place to snoop around and learn more of the man behind the
movie. We care currently re working our members packages!
Sign-up to receive great gifts! Are you a bastard yet?Palantir Premonitions (What's to come)
Hall of Fire Chat
Well Gandalf and Company have concocted something
a bit different for next weekend's Hall of Fire chat.
This time around we're going to take a character from
the story and focus on him in depth.So....
This week's topic: Frodo Baggins
This humble hobbit goes the distance for the Shire.
What do you think about him? What characteristics
or trademarks to you like of Frodo's? What is your
favorite Frodo quote or deed? Some people say that
this brave hobbit in fact failed his quest; what do you
think? How does tragedy impact this character's life?
Does Frodo have any tragic flaws or an Achilles' heel?
Come share with us this Saturday, April 22 at 5:30
EST as we anylize the character of Frodo, son of Drogo,
hero of Middle-earth.
The place: The Hall of Fire; connect to Barliman's and
type /join #thehalloffire
Your hosts: Gandalf, Nazfyratu, and Tookish
The time: Saturday, April 22, 5:30 EST (-5 hours GMT)
[More]
Heading to Imaginecon?A few of us at TheOneRing.net are packing our bags and
road-tripping to Virginia Beach, VA for this year's
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Convetion ImagineCon! (we should have
left an hour ago, but thats besides the point...)Here is our schedule for this wonderful convention:
Friday 4-6pm - How to design and maintain a fantasy
based website (E2 Pavilion)Saturday 1-3pm - Secrets Revealed About the Lord of
the Rings Movie (Rehearsal Hall Pavilion)If you are in the Virginia area please do stop by and say
hello! Corvar, Blasm and myself would love to meet you!Check out the complete ImagineCon schedule :
http://www.imaginecon.comNext Live chat Event
Thursday, April 27 will mark our next 'TheOneRing.net
Live Net Event' with Cinescape Magazine Editor in Chief
Steve Hockensmith!Ask him your movie, magazine or publishing questions! What
does he have planed as far as LOTR coverage? Be at
Barliman's on April 27th! More news to come!
See anything you want to add to the site? Have any
suggestions as to chat guests, content items, or just want to
say hi? Drop us a line at theonering@theonering.net, do you
want to speak with a specific person? just type in their handle
(i.e. Jincey = jincey@theonering.net).That's all for now, keep clicking, have fun and keep sending in
those letters! I love to hear from you!Xoanon & TheOneRing.net Team
http://theonering.net