--------------D0D21B9DD9D0FD0EE79E7C21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://theonering.net Newsletter V1 #53 Thursday August 3, 2000 Here it is the weekly newsletter! Enjoy.. Rings Roundup (Top headlines of major interest) AICN Confirms Howard Shore as Composer! Harry and the gang over at AICN have confirmed the story that soundtrack.net and TheOneRing.net brought to you on July 23rd. Howard Shore is in final negotiations to compose all three LOTR films! [More] Your chance to buy at auction.....legally, we presume..... a copy of LOTR signed by six of the stars! Well, if you're in NZ, that is. This rather sketchy message came in to say that a signed copy of LOTR is being auctioned in Wellington's Civic Square at 12 noon on Wednesday. [More] A Tale of 3 Astins: Some additional news concerning Sean Astin's daughter Alexandra's involvement in LOTR, with pics!! (Spoilers) [More] LOTR Trailer on DVD? Ringer fan GordoSan sent us this tip: "I'm not sure if you guys have posted this yet. I just recently got my Official Dreamcast Magazine in the mail and I found an insert for a new movie magazine. [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 gaming news. Green Books has lots of new features! Quickbeam invites you to share your daydreams of "The Furthest Reaches" of Middle-earth. There's great news on Turgon's "Bookshelf" about the JRRT Biography! Expand your knowledge with 11 new Questions & Answers. As always, Moon Letters is thriving with new poetry and fiction... Summer reading has never been better. 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 Hey Doll Merry Doll!! Attention Hall of Fire Folks and Tolkien Purists! Greetings from the the presses down here at TheOneRing.net, I think you're going to really appreciate this topic. In the rush of today, it seems like so many things are cheapened, devalued, and lost. Will this happen when Peter Jackson translates The Lord of the Rings to the big screen? Thus our topic: Preserving the Legacy of Tolkien's Work on Film We all know and expect that PJ will make changes in the Professor's great tale. If, in the upcoming movie, you could have 5 minutes -give or take- of the film that was completely unaltered and just as you imagine it, what would it be and why? What one scene would you like to see in the movie verbatim? Do you think after the movies are out and finished that Tolkien's vision of Middle-earth will be properly shown, and what impact will the films have on future readers of The Lord of the Rings? Join your moderators this Saturday, August 4, at 5:30 EST [-5 hours GMT] or Sunday, August 5, at 6:00 p.m. GMT [7:00 p.m. Central Europe Time and 1:00 p.m. EDT]. Please send in your feedback and topic suggestions to us. MORE HALL OF FIRE NEWS! We have added a new session time and day for our weekly Hall of Fire homepage chats, beginning this Sunday, July 23. That's right! You now have a choice of sessions: our regular chat held Saturdays at 5:30 pm EDT, or our NEW EuroHOF on Sundays at 1800 GMT (1900 CET, 2:00 pm EDT). Frode and Leo will be your moderators on Sundays. The topic will be the same for both sessions each weekend, so pick the one that's most convenient for you! (Diehards are more than welcome to attend both, lol!) As always, Hall of Fire chats are held in #thehalloffire. 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 --------------D0D21B9DD9D0FD0EE79E7C21 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 #53
Thursday August 3, 2000
Here it is the weekly newsletter! Enjoy..
Rings Roundup (Top headlines of major interest)
AICN Confirms Howard Shore as Composer! Harry
and the gang over at AICN have confirmed the story
that soundtrack.net and TheOneRing.net brought to you
on July 23rd. Howard Shore is in final negotiations to
compose all three LOTR films! [More]Your chance to buy at auction.....legally, we presume.....
a copy of LOTR signed by six of the stars! Well, if you're
in NZ, that is. This rather sketchy message came in to say
that a signed copy of LOTR is being auctioned in Wellington's
Civic Square at 12 noon on Wednesday. [More]A Tale of 3 Astins: Some additional news concerning Sean
Astin's daughter Alexandra's involvement in LOTR, with pics!!
(Spoilers) [More]LOTR Trailer on DVD? Ringer fan GordoSan sent us this tip:
"I'm not sure if you guys have posted this yet. I just recently got my
Official Dreamcast Magazine in the mail and I found an insert for
a new movie magazine. [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 gaming news.Green Books has lots of new features! Quickbeam invites you
to share your daydreams of "The Furthest Reaches" of
Middle-earth. There's great news on Turgon's "Bookshelf"
about the JRRT Biography! Expand your knowledge with
11 new Questions & Answers. As always, Moon Letters is
thriving with new poetry and fiction... Summer reading
has never been better.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
Hey Doll Merry Doll!! Attention Hall of Fire Folks and Tolkien Purists!
Greetings from the the presses down here at TheOneRing.net,
I think you're going to really appreciate this topic. In the rush of today,
it seems like so many things are cheapened, devalued, and lost. Will
this happen when Peter Jackson translates The Lord of the Rings to the
big screen? Thus our topic:Preserving the Legacy of Tolkien's Work on Film
We all know and expect that PJ will make changes in the Professor's
great tale. If, in the upcoming movie, you could have 5 minutes -give
or take- of the film that was completely unaltered and just as you
imagine it, what would it be and why? What one scene would
you like to see in the movie verbatim? Do you think after the movies
are out and finished that Tolkien's vision of Middle-earth will be
properly shown, and what impact will the films have on future
readers of The Lord of the Rings?Join your moderators this Saturday, August 4, at 5:30 EST
[-5 hours GMT] or Sunday, August 5, at 6:00 p.m. GMT [7:00 p.m.
Central Europe Time and 1:00 p.m. EDT]. Please send in your
feedback and topic suggestions to us.MORE HALL OF FIRE NEWS!
We have added a new session time and day for our weekly Hall of
Fire homepage chats, beginning this Sunday, July 23. That's right!
You now have a choice of sessions: our regular chat held Saturdays
at 5:30 pm EDT, or our NEW EuroHOF on Sundays at 1800 GMT
(1900 CET, 2:00 pm EDT). Frode and Leo will be your moderators
on Sundays. The topic will be the same for both sessions each
weekend, so pick the one that's most convenient for you! (Diehards
are more than welcome to attend both, lol!) As always, Hall of Fire
chats are held in #thehalloffire.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