Earlier today, TheOnering.net played host to the delightful Mr Alan Lee for a live Q&A in the Hall of Fire. Thanks to everyone who came along and asked a question. Big thanks also to Megan at HMCO for organising this as well as our lead moderator Alquawen and Balin, Daisy, Figgy and Jincey for their very able assistance! Here's the log! And don't forget that next weekend we'll be discussing the Seven Deadly Sins and LoTR. [More]

Peter Jackson has no intention of buying the rights to China's best-selling novel Wolf Totem. And he will not be raising wolves in New Zealand or having his Weta Digital company produce computer graphics of Mongolian wolves, either, says a spokesman for the New Zealand director, Matt Dravitzky. He was responding to an article in the New York Times that Jackson had acquired and planned to produce a film based on Wolf Totem. Mr Dravitzky said the newspaper had got it wrong and would be printing a correction. [More]

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra will be performing the LOTR Score at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee tonight (November 5th). Tickets are still available! Click here for more info and follow this link for more cities and showtimes! [More]

Toronto will play host to fantasy fans from around the world this weekend, as the Fantasy Worldwide International Film Festival launches its inaugural event. The three-day festival, which runs through Sunday, will showcase 31 films from six continents at Toronto's Bloor Cinema...Highlights of the event include Lord of the Brush, a documentary biography of Canadian artist John Howe, who helped bring to life J.R.R. Tolkien's world in Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings film trilogy. [More]

Alan Lee, the acclaimed LOTR illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual designer for the film trilogy, will join us in the Hall of Fire (on the TORn IRC server) today at 6pm EST for a live question and answer session! Alan will be answering questions on his work illustrating Lord of the Rings, his involvement with Peter Jackson and WETA as a conceptual designer for the Lord of the Rings film Trilogy and his new book The Lord of the Rings sketchbook. [More]

Check out ringersstore.com -- the brand new RINGERS website and online store -- a destination you absolutely must visit for details on the upcoming smash-hit documentary RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS, and for specialty shopping items you can find nowhere else! The familiar old URL lordofthefans.net will redirect you to www.ringersstore.com. Revel in the glowing reviews as critics around the world rally to praise the film called "Wildly entertaining!" (Amazon.com) and what "Will always be a salient part of Lord of the Rings history!" (Filmthreat.com).... While you are there, join the discussion boards as the buzz continues to build on this groundbreaking film, being released Nov. 22 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

From Houghton Mifflin: Following up on TORN's Hall of Fire live chat, Houghton Mifflin will also give fans a chance to ask questions of Alan Lee. If anyone misses the live chat, or doesn't have the opportunity to get their question answered, here's another opportunity for them:

Pose questions about Alan Lee's brand-new book, 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS SKETCHBOOK', to Alan Lee himself! The world-renowned, Academy Award-winning Lord of the Rings artist will answer your questions about the SKETCHBOOK the week of November 7th on Houghton Mifflin's online Discussion Forum. The Forum will be accepting questions on Monday, November 7th & 8th. Alan Lee's answers will be posted by Friday, November 11. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of requests we cannot guarantee answers to all questions. [More]

Video gamers chipped in for a good cause on Wednesday night by bidding on an Xbox and a copy of Halo 2 autographed by Peter Jackson. The winning bid took home the console and game for $1500, with total proceeds from the celebrity auction at Auckland Town Hall reaching $190,000. The auction was to raise money for the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust, which operates a music therapy centre in the Auckland suburb of Newton. The centre opened in 2003 and caters for special-needs children of school age and younger. [More]

New Zealand film director Peter Jackson, of Wellington, has bought rights to one of China's best-selling novels of recent years, Wolf Totem, a tale of rugged life among wolves on the Mongolian plains. Jackson, best known for his trilogy of dark fantasies in The Lord of the Rings and his version of King Kong - to be released next month - has bought the story rights to the novel and plans to produce a film based on it, the New York Times reports. The story tells how a young Han Chinese man and his friends steal a young wolf from its pit and raise it in their tent. Written by a 59-year-old political scientist at a Beijing university - who uses the pen name Jiang Rong - Wolf Totem has been acclaimed internationally as a stirring allegorical critique of Chinese civilisation, which he calls soft and lacking in individuality and freedom. [More]

November 2, 2005 - It sounds like the Halo movie could start shooting in as few as six months. According to a report on the Scoop Independant News website, the film adaptation of Microsoft/Bungie's hit videogame series will begin filming in May with a mid-2007 release date planned. This is the first news we've heard of a production timeline for highly-anticipated flick. This bit of news was apparently included in an official press release promoting a charity auction featuring an Xbox and Halo 2 game autographed by newly-signed Halo movie producer Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, King Kong). [More]

Time Warner subsidiary New Line Cinema is being sued over the Lord of the Rings trilogy. An investment syndicate, including the BNZ, has filed three related actions at the High Court in Auckland. They allege breach of contract in a case linked to the financing of the Peter Jackson project, claiming they did not receive all the money they were entitled to. Time Warner in the US says it plans to vigorously defend the lawsuits. [More]

Everyone is reminded that Alan Lee, the acclaimed LOTR illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual designer for the film trilogy, will join us in the Hall of Fire (on the TORn IRC server) on Saturday November 5 at 6pm EST for a live question and answer session. If you're wondering about pesky items such as time zone conversions and how to get onto IRC, this post has the answers for you! [More]

Runner from New York writes: I want to remind everyone in the New York area about the upcoming Collegiate Chorale concert at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, November 13 at 3:00 p.m. The theme of this exciting concert is "The Rings: Myth and Music." Featured in the first half are excerpts from Richard Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung. The second half of the concert will be the New York premiere of Movements I and II, The Fellowship of the Ring, from Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings Symphony, based on the music from his Academy Award-winning film scores. [More]

Lord of the Rings Oscar-winning costume designer Ngila Dickson and King Kong production designer Grant Major have joined forces for the New Zealand International Arts Festival. The duo's The Holy Sinner, a play directed by fellow Kiwis Mike Mizrahi and Marie Adams, will be one of more than 100 events on offer. Artistic director Carla van Zon said she was excited by the calibre of acts secured for next year's $12.5 million lineup, which is her last. The programme, unveiled last night in Wellington, had a strong contemporary flavour with several events using multimedia technology. [More]

'Lost', featuring Dominic Monaghan, is on ABC tonight at 9PM EST. [abc.go.com]

A repeat airing of Orlando Bloom on 'The Late Show with David Letterman' will air tonight on CBS at 11:35PM. If you missed it the first time it's new to you!

Mark your calendars for Wed., November 16! Sony is giving Tolkien fans a very special, final chance to see the award-winning RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS in full glory on the silver screen, a spectacular premiere, before it is released worldwide on DVD. Calling all Ringers -- on Nov. 16th at 8:00PM we hope to see you at the gorgeous Vista Theatre in L.A. for a full-on premiere screening event (and even better, drinks and partying afterward with the filmmakers and guests!). Many pleasant surprises are in store...just you wait! Stay tuned right here to TheOneRing.net for full details to be announced in a few days and ticket information (which will be sold through TORn exclusively).

TheOneRing.net, in partnership with Sideshow Weta Collectibles is giving away three Orc-related Lord of the Rings prizes. The deadline is this Friday! Don't delay, enter today! [Click Here]

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Complete Recordings

Tom writes: Just thought you'd like to know that Amazon.com has the artwork for the FOTR Complete Score online at its preoder listing, as well as a list of the tracks that will be on the CDs. The artwork looks like a continuation of the Extended Edition designs, so I imagine the CDs and DVDs will look nice together on a shelf. [More]

Mike writes: George Sayer, author of Jack & recorder of the 1952 home-made tapes of Tolkien reading from The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, died recently in Malvern, Worcs.

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We're counting down the days until 'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is out on DVD in North America. Now we're the only place in the world where you can see the trailer online in Quicktime!

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Meet Alan Lee tonight in Beaverton, OR at 'Powell's Books' (8725 SW Cascade Ave.). Alan will be signing copies of his latest book 'The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook' starting at 7pm. Alan is also keeping a travel blog of his book tour exclusively with TORN right here! [Alan Lee Travel Blog]

A BIG thank you to JPB for setting up the Blog for Alan's book tour, you did a great job!!

More tour dates and locations are available here. [More]

The awesome folks at Ubisoft are about to launch a contest to get your knees shaking, your heart a-pumping and your mouth drooling! Pick up 'Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie' and you could win an all expense paid trip to Wellington to visit WETA WORKSHOP!! That's right! You heard it here first folks! Swing on over to kingkonggame.com for full contest rules and details.

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TheOneRing.net and Creation Entertainment are proud to bring you, for the first time on a convention stage, Miranda Otto. She will be appearing at The One Ring Celebration (ORC) in Pasadena the weekend of January 20-22, 2006. You will be the first to be able to ask her about her fight training, or those beautiful dresses, or learning to fight on horseback, or what it was like to bring one of the first really strong female heroes to life. Her autograph will be part of the Wizard Circle package, so go check out the convention page now to see what else that includes. And believe it or not, we are no where near done announcing guests. Not all will be the big news this is, but I'm sure you all will enjoy the show we are putting together for you. [More]

Click here to view images from last years ORC: One Ring Convention

Today is Peter Jackson's Birthday! Peter was born on October 31st, 1961 in Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand. That makes him 44 today! Happy Birthday Peter!

Meet Alan Lee tonight in Seattle, WA at 'University Bookstore' (4326 University Way NE). Alan will be signing copies of his latest book 'The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook' starting at 7pm. Alan is also keeping a travel blog of his book tour exclusively with TORN right here! [Alan Lee Travel Blog]

A BIG thank you to JPB for setting up the Blog for Alan's book tour, you did a great job!!

More tour dates and locations are available here. [More]

Celebriel writes: About 75 SF Bay Area Ringers were on hand to greet Alan Lee in Marin County Saturday evening, on his return to the San Francisco area to promote “The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook.” Many arrived as much as two hours early to reserve seats and have dinner in the bookstore’s café. They were treated to his wonderful presentation of sketches, photographs, and montages, as well as nearly two hours of stories from his six-year involvement in The Lord of the Rings. [More]

TORONTO - Things were hopping in Middle-Earth yesterday -- hopping, flying, jumping and stilt-walking, too. As the first full week drew to a close of what will be many weeks of rehearsals for the upcoming stage production of Lord Of The Rings (opening in the Princess of Wales Theatre next March, after extensive previews), producers yesterday brought two of the show's key components together for a show-and-tell with Toronto media. [More]

It's way too obvious and far less imaginative than most VeggieTales adventures, but The Lord of the Beans still cooks up some smiles and laughs - and an uplifting biblical message - as the computer-generated vegetables star in a spoof of the blockbuster film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. The 27th episode of the best-selling VeggieTales series, released today, features Junior Asparagus as "Toto Baggypants" and Archibald Asparagus as his "Uncle Billboy," two "flobbits" - the VeggieTales equivalent of J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits. [More]

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Meet Alan Lee tonight in San Francisco, CA at 'The Booksmith' (1644 Haight Street). Alan will be signing copies of his latest book 'The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook' starting at 2pm. Alan is also keeping a travel blog of his book tour exclusively with TORN right here! [Alan Lee Travel Blog]

A BIG thank you to JPB for setting up the Blog for Alan's book tour, you did a great job!!

More tour dates and locations are available here. [More]

Meet Alan Lee tonight in Corte Madera, CA at 'Book Passage' (51 Tamal Vista Blvd.). Alan will be signing copies of his latest book 'The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook' starting at 7pm. Alan is also keeping a travel blog of his book tour exclusively with TORN right here! [Alan Lee Travel Blog]

A BIG thank you to JPB for setting up the Blog for Alan's book tour, you did a great job!!

More tour dates and locations are available here. [More]

MrCere writes: SALT LAKE CITY - Alan Lee continued his book tour Friday with a stop in Salt Lake City where he visited just about a year ago for signings of his illustrated edition of 'The Lord of the Rings.' His supurb new book "The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook" prompted his latest tour, complete with his own blog here at TheOneRing.net. If you haven't seen this wonderful book yet, it is a thing of beauty and something no fan should be without. [More]