[Lotr_announce] TheOneRing.net Newsletter (2/7/2005)

Sat Jul 2 11:31:54 EDT 2005

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TORN #273

July 2nd, 2005

Here is the weekly newsletter! Enjoy!

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Sean Astin Confirmed for ELF!
It is confirmed! Sean Astin will join Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd and John Noble
at ELF, the first East coast LOTR Festival presented by TheOneRing.net and
Creation Entertainment. Tickets are still on sale - you won't want to miss
out! The TORn staff has also been working hard to provide some amazing track
programming, a few parties (with Emerald Rose!) and the ever popular art
show! Follow the link for complete details!
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1120244283

Sideshow/Weta LOTR Line Ends!
For those of you who have followed the Sideshow/Weta Collectibles line for
the past years, news reaches us today that there will be only three more
pieces and the line of Lord of the Rings polystone collectibles will end.
The last three pieces are the Mumak of Harad, an Amon Hen Environment and,
the final piece is a special tribute to Peter Jackson himself, the Peter
Jackson as a Corsair statue. For the complete details and previews of the
last pieces, follow the links!
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1120244283

Lord Of The Rings PSP-bound?
It looks like gamers still debating whether to buy a PSP may get another
nudge to get off the fence. Besides the arrival of the Grand Theft Auto and
SOCOM franchises, it appears Q4 2005 may also see the Lord of the Rings
games make their debut on Sony's portable.
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1120220877

LOTR Online Update
Meghan, Online Community Manager for 'The Lord of the Rings Online' writes:
This week, we've posted World Lead Ryan Bednar's first dev diary, Charting
the Chetwood. Ryan talks about how the team re-creates the geography of
Middle-earth by pulling clues from the text of The Lord of the Rings, and
includes a little map he whipped up showing the locations of Archet, Combe,
and Staddle.
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1120156890

Houston LoTR Exhibit Pictures
Ringer Feather Iron visited the LOTR exhibit at the Houston Museum of
Natural Science and was able to get a couple of pictures. She writes: "I
found the exhibit itself to be really nice. There were three rooms total, a
life-size Treebeard, Sauron, Lurtz and cave troll. There is lots of
making-of stuff and all the great costumes. There is a room you go in that
is round and dark and it has the ring in the middle of it. You hear all the
clips from the movie concerning the ring and there is fire all around you.
It's very hard to describe but really cool. Seeing the costumes and the
armoury up close was amazing."
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1120008607

Fellowship Festival Adds Boyd To Guest List
Louise writes that the Fellowship Festival has just added Billy Boyd, to its
guest list. However, note that Billy will be joining the already-extensive
extensive guest at the Wembley Conference Centre in London on August 29
only. For more information and tickets, head to the festival website.
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1120008298

'Rings' director assaults Time Warner's tower of integration
What if Frodo Baggins, instead of confronting the evil empire in "The Lord
of the Rings," just got himself a lawyer and sued instead? The real-life
corollary is going on now in Hollywood, where Peter Jackson, one of the film
industry's most powerful and popular directors, is suing New Line Cinema,
the subsidiary of Time Warner that financed and distributed his
Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1119890830

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Coming Soon:

July 8th: Howard Shore Concert (Houston, TX)

Join us at the 'Hall of Fire'

Hall Of Fire This Weekend - What If Gollum Had Lived?

Fantasy fiction has become a dominant force in modern society.

Sometimes, just sometimes, it's interesting and fun to play 'what if?'.
That's why this weekend, we're asking you 'What if Gollum had lived?'. At
the climax of the Return of the King, Frodo claims the ring for himself,
Gollum grabs him and bites off Frodo's finger. The Precious is his! But as
Gollum holds up both ring and finger triumphantly, he slips, dropping both
the Ring and Frodo's finger into the fire. Yet he doesn't fall in himself.
What happens next?

Times:
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The Tolkien Fan's Medieval Reader, edited by Turgon

Over the years Tolkien's fondness for and indebtedness to medieval
literature has often been mentioned. His special devotion to older Germanic
literature, including Beowulf and the Eddas, has long been known, for as a
professor he taught these works in addition to teaching the languages in
which they were written. This anthology has been compiled in the hope of
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