[Lotr_announce] This Week on TheOneRing.net

[Michael Regina]

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TheOneRing.net’s route to Atlanta’s DragonCon revealed!
TheOneRing.net, with major sponsor The Lord of the Rings: War in the
North on board,  is heading to DragonCon in Atlanta, Georgia, via the
roadways of America and broadcasting the event LIVE on TORn. Along the
way we are taking our little Gandalf to get lots of photos with him
and to meet TORn readers in a few cities along the way before we hand
him off in Atlanta and send him to Europe!. (More about Gandalf soon
as we unveil the whole project with a new website dedicated just to
getting the statue in the hands of fans for photos and to “handoff the
Gandalf.” Our trip is corporately sponsored by The Lord of the Rings:
War in the North, releasing November 1st in North America. Other
sponsor’s include everybody’s favorite LOTR jeweler Badali Jewelry and
“The Website for People Who Love Britain,” Anglotopia.

Check our schedule below carefully and if we are coming to your area
and you want to arrange a meetup, please email MrCere at TheOneRing.net
with the subject “Road to DragonCon” and let us know if you can meet
our estimated schedule as close to the freeway as possible.
http://tinyurl.com/3wl7xgk

Sylvester McCoy added as DragonCon guest
Sylvester McCoy, Radagast the Brown in the two upcoming films based on
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, has been added as a guest to the annual
celebration of popular culture known as DragonCon. Ralph Bakshi is
also a guest and of course TheOneRing.net is also attending as it has
for the last decade and we will make every effort to catch a chat with
McCoy.
http://tinyurl.com/3fy9vhn

Collecting The Precious – Weta: The Collector’s Guide Contest Winners
Last Friday we announced a contest in conjuction with the folks at
Weta for three copies of their amazing Collector’s Guide. As I said in
the article this book came out during Comic-Con this year and the
books first 147 pages cover their work on The Lord of the Rings line
of collectibles. The contest ended this past Thursday at midnight PST
and after receiving several entries I am proud to announce the
winners: Tom F. of Visalia, CA, Alex G. of Australia, and the final
winner Mike S. of England.
http://tinyurl.com/3rzaqno

Dominion Post: Hobbiton Visitors Sworn to Secrecy
>From the Dominion Post: The skeleton that remained of the set has been
a very popular tourist attraction. We also know that it has since been
rebuilt for The Hobbit – and that this time it won’t be removed once
filming is completed. It’s been designed to last 50 years. But what
surprises me is that the public can visit the rebuilt set right now
before the cameras roll.
http://tinyurl.com/3za9b79

Evangeline Lilly, precious son in Wellington for ‘The Hobbit’
Evangeline Lilly, taking on the role of an invented female Elf
character in The Hobbit, has been spotted in Wellington, New Zealand
as the second and much longer stint of filming is soon to begin.
Lilly, who has been occupied for six years with the television hit
Lost, will play a character written into the scrip for the two films
written by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh,Phillipa Boyens and Guillermo del
Toro.
http://tinyurl.com/3jkrcyh

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