Welcome to the brand new RINGERS Online Store and Community site! Check out the fantastic NEW designs for T-shirts, posters, coffee cups and much more including the now classic "BINGO LIVES" (remember, that was Frodo's name before Tolkien changed it in rewriting his story!). We have brought back the gorgeous TREE LOGO and also have the poster art with Dominic Monaghan, star narrator of RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS. Join our message boards as our community grows. [More]

Seems one of the horses that played Shadowfax is for sale, anyone interested? From the website: This horse is Blanco - the genuine Shadowfax double in the movie Lord of the Rings. He is a Liberty trained trick horse trained by world renowned horse trainer Don Reynolds. He has been used in Hercules TV series filmed in NZ 2004. Credited trainer Wayne McCormack worked on these two films with Blanco. Blanco also worked on commercials and has done live shows. Due to overseas work commitments....a regretful sale of this great horse. [More]

The following will take place Sunday between 8 and 10p.m. About 15 million people will tune in to the fifth-season premiere of Fox's "24," and most of these viewers - or around 3 million more than last season's average, by the way - are what might be call hardened "24-nistas." They are a passionate, dedicated, obsessive crowd who have waited anxiously for this hour to arrive. The preceding NFL playoff game is a mere obstacle to be endured before 8 p.m. Nirvana. They have spent the past eight months dreaming about their show. They've watched and rewatched the fourth-season DVD collection. They've planned "24" parties for Sunday night. And they've studied every reported fifth-season development with dutiful and slavish attention. [More]

Chertsey, UK., January 13, 2006: Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that the highly anticipated PC game, The Lord of the RingsTM, The Battle for Middle-earthTM II will make its exclusive console debut when it ships in Summer 2006 on the Xbox 360TM. Players can now command epic Middle-earth battles presented in spectacular high-definition from the comfort of their very own couch. To add to the intensity of the experience, The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II for the Xbox 360 is the first game in The Lord of the RingsTM series that will be playable over Xbox LIVETM*. Players will be able to challenge friends online and engage in intense, action-packed real-time battles. [More]

This figure is now on sale! Go get one before they are all gone. [Click Here]

This Saturday (January 14th), Hall of Fire is going to the geek side. Instead of a topic chat, we'll be hauling out our copies of the Fellowship of the Ring EE DVD, dusting them off and popping them into the DVD player. And after the usual confusion, at around 5.30pm EST we'll all press play on our individual DVD players and proceed to cheer and jeer (or discuss and argue, if you like!) the finer points of the film. [More]

Today is Orlando Bloom's Birthday! Orlando was born on January 13th, 1977 in Canterbury, England. That makes him 29 years old today! Happy Birthday Orlando!

We got this from a mailing list: Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull will be talking about their work on Tolkien, especially "The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion", at Water Street Books, 26 Water Street in Williamstown (north-west Massachusetts), 6:30 to 8:00 tonight, Jan 12. If you are in the area, make it a point to meet these great Tolkien scholars!

Dominic Monaghan was on 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' today (Jan 11th) talking about his hit show Lost. He also mentioned the speeding tickets incurred by the cast while in Hawaii, and some major Lost spoilers so beware! Also, please beware of a 90210 alum during the commercial clip that I accidentally left in...sorry! (I do make it up with clips of the 'Billie Jean' girl...wow) Take a look! (35.4MB MOV)[More]

Two new episodes of Lost air tonight on ABC. Dominic Monaghan's hit show about a group of plane crash survivors who are struggling for survival on a mysterious island. Dominic plays a somewhat has-been guitarist of a rock band who is struggling with his heroin addiction. The show is fully of intrigue, drama, adventure and mystery. Be sure to check it out on ABC tonight!

Dominic Monaghan is doing some heavy stumping for Lost while on the mainland in LA. He was on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Monday night, was spotted at the People's Choice Awards last night and today he is on 'The Ellen Show'. Check your local listings for channel and time.

Dominic Monaghan was on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' last night (Jan 9th) talking about his hit show Lost. He had two great stories to tell, one about being in Vegas and completely making a fool of himself, and another involving the greenskeeper on Lost...you need to hear that one for yourself! Take a look! (37MB MOV)[More]

Carvin Knowles, co-producer of 'In Elven Lands' writes: January 31, 2006 marks the American release of Voiceprint Records (UK) "In Elven Lands," music inspired by the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. Some of your readers may have heard the rhumors over the past few years of a project that features musicological reconstructions of what the music of Middle-Earth might sound like, including several songs with Quenya and Sindarin lyrics. A few of you probably even have the pirated demos that leaked out in spring of 2001 (thanks to the Audio department of Weta) that feature Jon Anderson (of Yes fame), if you do, don't tell me, I don't want to know. [More]

Celevon writes: The authors of Lembas for the Soul would like to thank the TORn community for nominating our book for the ORC award for Best Tolkien-themed book of 2005. It's truly an honor to be nominated in the company of such distinguished artists and Tolkien authors. Now that the holiday rush is over, we've finally had time to pull together some photos of the Lembas launch party at the LOTR Exhibit at the Indiana State Museum in December. [More]

NEW YORK -- The National Board of Review will present Jane Fonda and composer Howard Shore with 2005 Career Achievement Awards at its Jan. 10 awards ceremony, to be emceed by Paul Reiser. The event at Tavern on the Green will honor Fonda's 45 years in cinema. Shore will receive a special 2005 Career Achievement for Film Music Composition. Three-time Oscar winner Shore ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy), with more than 65 features to his credit, launched his more than quarter-century scoring career with several films for director David Cronenberg, including "The Brood," "Scanners" and "Videodrome." He is next scheduled to score Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," due next summer, and is creating an opera for the 2007 Los Angeles Opera season based on Cronenberg's "The Fly." [More]

This Saturday, Hall of Fire is going to the geek side. Instead of a topic chat, we'll be hauling out our copies of the Fellowship of the Ring EE DVD, dusting them off and popping them into the DVD player. And after the usual confusion, at around 5.30pm EST we'll all press play on our individual DVD players and proceed to cheer and jeer (or discuss and argue, if you like!) the finer points of the film. [More]

Well, there is not a lot that the Clerks II trailer has in common with Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings. In fact, the only reason we are mentioning it, is because the only spoken words in the trailer are portions of the Ring verse! [View for Yourself]

Christopher Nightingale doesn't mind admitting that when he first heard London producer Kevin Wallace discuss plans for a stage musical based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, he thought "it was a really bad idea." Of course, Nightingale is quick to add that when the notion was first broached three years ago, it was premised on an entirely different theatrical template than the $27-million show that will have its world premiere at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre on March 23 (after six weeks in previews beginning Feb. 2). [More]

Talking Tolkien – A podcast about the Tolkien Society Archives. Since 1969 the Tolkien Society has been collecting all sorts of items that have been created or inspired by the writings of JRR Tolkien. In their archives they hold a variety of objects, from paintings by Italian fans to key rings from fast-food chains. [More]

The voting booth is open, and a large number of ballots have already been received! Make sure not to miss your chance to vote for the best of 2005's Lord of the Rings creative and scholarly writing, and acting. Winners will be announced at the official One Ring Award Ceremony, taking place during the ORC weekend of January 20th-22nd 2006 from The One Ring Celebration in Pasadena CA. Don't delay, award those people that have made a difference in the world of Tolkien this past year! Please note: Voting closes at midnight tonight!!!! [VOTE]

Toby and Cody McClure write: For the past eight months we've been working on an animated fan short called "The Lord of the Rings: The Sons of Elrond" and we would like to inform you that it is available for viewing from our website. As twin brothers, our road was changed forever after seeing the Fellowship of the Ring in theaters Christmas 2001. Since that day the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien have made a tremendous impact on our lives and in everything we do. For all the fans, we hope this short will be at least a small reminder of Middle-earth and the great inspiration it has made in all our lives. [More]

Dominic Monaghan will be on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' tonight (January 9th). He is there to promote the return of new episodes of 'Lost' on ABC. Be sure to set those TiVo's as 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' airs at 12:05AM on ABC.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The hirsute star of Peter Jackson's "King Kong" will receive a special honor at the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards on January 9. The Broadcast Film Critics Assn., the group behind the event, created the Distinguished Achievement in Performing Arts Award to recognize what it called "the singular achievement in creating this character, representing a revolutionary leap forward in synthesizing visual effects with an actor's performance." "Many BFCA members wanted to vote for Kong for best actor because they were so impressed by the astonishing way in which he expresses love, lust, humor and rage in the tradition of the finest human actors," BFCA president Joey Berlin said. The award will be accepted by Andy Serkis, the actor who breathed life into Kong. Jackson and his crew are creating new footage for the event. [More]

The Golden State Theatre is presenting the entire LOTR Trilogy on the big screen next month (February 19th). Tickets are still available, from their website: The complete epic trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson: The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers and the Oscar-winning The Return Of The King. A marathon of all three incredible movies as they were meant to be seen, back-to-back without interruption on the big screen! [More]

Fantasy war games retailer Games Workshop today warned its full year profits would fall short of market expectations after interest in Lord of the Rings - one of its mainstay lines – continued to wane. The England-based group, which makes model versions of the trilogy, said revenues for the six months to November 27 had fallen from £71m (€103m) to £57.1m (€82.7m) and profits before tax tumbled from £7.6m (€11m) to £119,000 (€172,000) as the “bubble” created by the Lord of the Rings films continued to deflate. [More]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., 6 January, 2006 – Electronic Arts today announced The Lord of the RingsTM, The Battle for Middle-earthTM II Collector's Edition – the first ever Collector's Edition DVD release from the highly successful The Lord of the Rings franchise. The sequel to last holiday's critically acclaimed PC game is filled with exclusive The Lord of the RingsTM game content that will offer fans an opportunity to delve into parts of the Middle-earth they've never seen before. Scheduled to ship simultaneously with The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II in February 2006, The Lord of the RingsTM, The Battle for Middle-earthTM II Collector's Edition will be available at select retailers and is rated 12+ by PEGI. [More]

The chances of New Zealand-made movie blockbusters getting Oscar nominations for anything other than technical awards fell yesterday when they were absent from a major Oscar predictor's nominations. Neither King Kong director Peter Jackson nor Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe director Andrew Adamson were nominated by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) for its annual award. The DGA nominees were George Clooney (Good Night and Good Luck), Paul Haggis (Crash), Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), Bennett Miller (Capote) and Steven Spielberg (Munich). Adamson was considered an outsider but Jackson was thought to have some chance after receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director and excellent reviews for King Kong. At least four DGA award nominees usually go on to earn Oscar nominations, and their movies usually get Best Picture nominations as well. Oscar predictors say it is highly unusual for directors absent from the DGA nominations to win an Oscar. [More]

Bastian Holze from DEAG CLASSICS writes: On May 28th, the Deutsche Entertainment AG organizes a big live concert named: "The Lord of The Rings Symphony" in the Kölnarena of Cologne, Germany. [More]