[Lotr_announce] TheOneRing.net Newsletter - February 2009

Sun Feb 1 14:29:14 EST 2009

TORN #373

February, 2009

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Rings Roundup (Top headlines of major interest)
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New Empire Hobbit Cover
>From Empire Magazine: January is, statistically speaking, the most miserable
of months. It’s cold, it’s dark, and Moira Stuart is forever banging on
about paying your tax bill by the 31st, or Mr. Taxman will be round to cut
off a pound, or three, of flesh. So here at Empire, we feel it’s our duty to
cheer you up – and what better way than by presenting to you our brand new
issue, which should be hitting newsagent and supermarket shelves near you
any
 second
 now.
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/01/28/31057-new-empire-hobbit-cover/

‘Hobbit’ Director Guillermo Del Toro Says Script, Visualization, Casting
Under Way
With work on “The Hobbit” really starting to move forward, Guillermo del
Toro updated MTV News this week with exclusive scripting, casting and
pre-production news, including confirmation that “Hellboy” creator Mike
Mignola will be coming aboard for early visualization.
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/01/22/31026-hobbit-director-guillermo-d
el-toro-says-script-visualization-casting-under-way/

TORn exclusive: Monaghan is interested in ‘The Hobbit’ film
PARK CITY, UT. - Dominic Monaghan while promoting his Slamdance Film
Festival opening feature, “I Sell The Dead,” told TheOneRing.net that he
would be interested in being involved in “The Hobbit” films if it made sense
creatively. When asked if he would want to hang around New Zealand in 2010
he said, “That is a Peter Jackson question. I would love to. I would be
available. I would do anything for Peter and I would do anything for
Guillermo. Of course there is the writing challenge.”
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/01/17/30994-torn-exclusive-monaghan-is-
interested-in-hobbit/

Previously Unseen Edoras Construction Pics!
Andrew Rutherford writes: Here’s some photos that you might not have seen
before, and recently uploaded to our website. They show the construction of
the Edoras set. They were not taken by us. From the site: When Peter
Jackson’s Three Foot Six company first arrived in Queenstown in November
1999, I decided to visit their production office which was operating out of
the old Remarkables Hotel. There I had the good luck to meet unit production
manager Nick Korda. I told him that with the type of aeroplanes we operated
I thought we could be of service.
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/01/14/30980-previously-unseen-edoras-co
nstruction-pics/

Andy Serkis on Tintin and The Hobbit
ComingSoon.net talked to Andy Serkis, who stars in the January 23
fantasy-adventure Inkheart, about returning to performance capture in Steven
Spielberg’s Tintin, Peter Jackson’s Tintin 2, and The Hobbit. “We are
starting ‘Tintin’ the week after next,” Serkis said. “Peter Jackson is
producing and Steven Spielberg is directing. I remember reading them as a
child. I wasn’t this massive fan. I loved the almost storyboard nature of
the beautiful, beautiful drawings. And the way its going to be done
 It’s
obviously performance capture so it’s is going to be perfect. There isn’t a
more perfect way of doing it.”
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/01/14/30978-andy-serkis-on-tintin-and-t
he-hobbit/

LOTR Online Named ‘Best Expansion’ of 2008
Kai writes: The Lord of the Rings Online™: Mines of Moria™ has been voted
the Best expansion of 2008 by MMORPG.com readers! “Another impressive win
for the Lord of the Rings team over at Turbine, with 48% of the vote, the
winner of the Best new Expansion of 2008 was Turbine’s Mines of Moria, the
first expansion for their hit game, Lord of the Rings Online.”
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/01/11/30940-lotr-online-named-best-expa
nsion-of-2008/

New Tolkien for HarperCollins
>From thebookseller.com: HarperCollins is to publish a new book by the late
Lord of the Rings author J R R Tolkien. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún,
edited and introduced by Tolkien’s son Christopher, will be published in
hardback in May 2009. The previously unpublished work was written while
Tolkien was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University during the 1920s
and ’30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The
publication will make available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive
retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the
Völsung and the Fall of the Niflungs. Christopher Tolkien edited Tolkien’s
most recent title The Children of Húrin in 2007. Further details about the
contents of the book will be revealed closer to publication.
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/01/06/30907-new-tolkien-for-harpercolli
ns/

Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien
TheOneRing.net raises its glass to today to join fans the world over in
toasting the master of Middle-earth, J.R.R. Tolkien, who was born January
3rd 1892. If you’d like to join in the worldwide toast, The Tolkien Society
has its annual event organized where fans can sign up to toast by hoisting
the liquid beverage of your choice to “The Professor”.

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Palantir Visions (Things seen from beyond the front page)
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TORn braves airwaves with bi-weekly segment on ‘Fictional Frontiers’

TheOneRing.net will be providing a segment on this Sunday’s broadcast of
‘Fictional Frontiers with Sohaib,’ on WNJC 1360 AM, Philadelphia at 11AM ET.
http://www.wnjc1360.com/Shows/Fictional_Frontiers/fictional_frontiers.html

TORN Books:

The People's Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien

The People's Guide is written by five contributing writers of TheOneRing.net
-- the leading fan website devoted to Tolkien, his books, his lore, the New
Line Cinema movies, and the fan community that centers on Middle-earth.
TheOneRing.net has always been distinguished by the quality of the original
articles appearing on its Green Books and Tehanu's Notes pages. This book
adapts some of the most popular articles on the TheOneRing.net as well as
offering readers completely new articles that are not available online.
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/6/1046309473

More People's Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien

Following last year's successful The People's Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien, this
volume continues in the best tradition of Green Books and Tehanu's Notes to
explore the words and worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien through essays, Q&A from
readers, and interviews with special guests.
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1098932815

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
sharing the pleasures of these -- and other -- classics of medieval
literature that were part of Tolkien's professional life and inspirations to
him in his creative work.
http://greenbooks.theonering.net/turgon/files/032504.html

Ongoing EXCLUSIVES from "Ringers: Lord of the Fans"

Ringers: Lord of the Fans is a feature-length documentary that reveals the
ongoing cultural phenomenon created by The Lord of the Rings. Very funny and
often moving, Ringers shows the hidden power behind Tolkien's books -- and
how after 50 years a single literary work continues to spark the minds and
hearts of millions.
http://www.ringersstore.com

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