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TORn visits Wondercon in Anaheim for a panel
Wondercon in Anaheim March 29-31, 2024 TheOneRing.net will kick off the 2024 Convention season at Wondercon in Anaheim, running from March 29-31, 2024. Our panel, 'Dispatches from Middle-earth: The...
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EXCLUSIVE: Tolkien Estate grants permission to Lord of the Rings opera
Our good friends at Volante Opera have been in touch with very exciting news! You may remember, in 2022 and 2023 we brought you news of their work with composer Paul Corfield Godfrey, to bring to life...
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PJ, Walsh, Boyens and Andy Serkis to make Hunt for Gollum movie
BREAKING NEWS: it seems that Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Andy Serkis are all going there and back again, as Warner Bros. today issued an astonishing press release: WARNER BROS....
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Examining The Rings of Power through Tolkien’s Concept of Ósanwe
This week, TORn Discord moderator Webcrawler returns with a new article delving into a concept that Tolkien developed called Ósanwe (a Quenya word meaning "interchange of thought"), and how the...
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Reflections from the Shire
In January I was reading a skeet on Bluesky about how people feel after every re-reading of The Lord of the Rings. Do they still feel the same emotions, have the same reactions as they did when they...
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Join the Tolkien fun at Dragon Con 2024
Greetings from Atlanta, fellow Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, wizards and elves, Rohirrim and Beornings, Men and Women of the West, Nazgúl and Uruks, and other glorious embodiments of...
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Reflections from the Shire – Orc Babies
Last week Rings of Power returned to our tv screens, when the first three episodes were released on Thursday 29th of August. Once again it has attracted its share of responses from those who love the...
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Don’t Kill Content – No One Needs Your Hot Take
I learned something important from my daughter’s first-grade teacher that has stayed with me: “Don’t yuk someone else’s yum.” Our moms might have said it differently: “If you can’t say something nice,...
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The Great Hall of Poets
Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our poetry feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. So come and join us by the hearth, and enjoy! If you have a Tolkien/Middle-earth inspired poem you’d...
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Reflections from the Shire – The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Adar This week in Reflections from the Shire we have a guest post from Tolkien lover, and Tiktok and Threads regular, Lea/Silmarilleanne about The Shibboleth of Fëanor and it's appearance in The Rings...
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First publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s collected poems offers new insights...
Tom Emanuel, University of Glasgow. If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. Yet...
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Concerning Oaths in Middle-earth
Oaths hold an astonishing power in Tolkien's Middle-earth. Here, TORn Discord member Narrative Epicure explores how Sauron and Elrond's understanding of this fact drives each to behave very...
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