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BoxOfficeMojo.com: ‘The Hobbit’ Breaks Another Record with $37.5 Million Friday
Underscoring what seems to be a significant disconnect between fans and critics, early returns are in for our Ringers Reviews and ‘The Hobbit: AUJ’ is showing an average of 4.6/5 Rings with fans. The...
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‘The Hobbit’ Breaks US and Canadian Box Office Records for December
“The Hobbit” brought home a big box office treasure over the weekend, setting a December movie record with $84.77 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales as legions of fans turned out for the...
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Hobbit Premiere Party and the giving season
We’re happy to announce that the Red Carpet Tours and TORN Premiere Party in Wellington raised $2600 for our chosen charity, Duffy Books in Homes.Thanks so much to Peter Jackson, Weta, Stansborough,...
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Hollywood.com: The Fandom of Tolkien: How Diehard ‘Ringers’ Anticipated ‘The...
From Hollywood.com: In 1971, Jan Sterling was 19 years old, married, caring for a one-year-old baby girl, and living out of a 1961 Econoline Ford Van. She was driving around the country in a state that...
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Ever wonder what it was like to be in New Zealand during Hobbit Premiere Week?
Many fans traveled to New Zealand from around the world in the days and weeks leading up to the Premiere, just to be there on that fateful day. One such person is Dr. Lynnette Porter, author of a new...
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A festive mathom for all readers of TheOneRing.net!
greendragon with actor John Bell, who plays Bain in The Hobbit movies On 12th December staffer greendragon was lucky enough to attend the red (well, actually it was green!) carpet in Leicester Square,...
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Kiwi catapults to Hollywood
Kiwi actor William Kircher returned from a whirlwind 10 days at Hobbit world premieres to news he has landed a lead role in a new Hollywood movie. Kircher — who plays dwarf Bifur in the latest Peter...
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TORn Message Boards Weekly Roundup – Special New Years Edition!!
Welcome to our collection of TORn’s hottest topics for the past year. We’ve collected together some of 2012′s most popular posts on 10 of our Message Boards. You’ll be surprised at what captured the...
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WILD THINGS With Dominic Monaghan Premiere Night Q&A
Last night in North America marked the launch of the remarkable new nature series Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan; and he kindly agreed to give TheOneRing.net an exclusive sit-down Q&A. The...
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TheOneRing.net and New Zealand Post’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”...
Early in October, TORn announced the release of the New Zealand Post’s exclusive commemorative stamps and coins for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Today we’re giving you the chance to win some of...
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Getting to know Peter Kenny
Welcome to the latest “Getting to know…” questions that need answering. Based on the old Getting to know you threads that I used to post on the message boards here on TORn, so those familiar with them...
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TORn party and art show draws Oscar coverage from LAWeekly.com
LOS ANGELES — We are fully aware of how much we pumped up the One Expected Party and Art Show this past weekend. We poured our website’s resources and our personal resources into the event and then...
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#VoteBilbo becomes a thing via Twitter,trends in UK, US, will you join the...
Back in the First Age of TheOneRing.net when the interwebs were new and fansites were breaking ground on the way movies were covered, TORn used to consistantly swamp media or website polls that...
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Want to visit Middle-earth? Try the Hobbiton Movie Set
Note: A photo gallery follows the text and videos, click for larger versions. The mill at Hobbiton Movie SetNEW ZEALAND — During the world premiere of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” New Zealand...
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Australians can watch ‘The Hobbit,’ meet Richard Armitage
Viewers in Australia had to wait a good bit longer than many parts of the world to own “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” on home video but when it is released on May 1, it comes with a free Richard...
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Getting to know Magnus Hjert
Welcome to the latest “Getting to know” – questions that need answering. It’s based on the old Getting to know you threads that I occasionally post on the message boards here on TORn, so those familiar...
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Eleven Dwarves and a Wizard to Appear at NZ Armageddon Expo
There is a large company of dwarves and a jittery wizard marching down on Wellington weekend June 1 – 3 at the Armageddon Expo. (It just so happens to be the Queen’s Birthday as well!) By purchasing an...
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Researching THE FRODO FRANCHISE: Part 4, Now It Can Be Told: Secrets and...
Of the three trips I took to New Zealand in 2003 and 2004 to conduct interviews for my book, only the first happened before the release of The Return of the King. I didn’t go thinking that I would...
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No Wellington premiere for Desolation of Smaug
Hot on the heels of the poster release and trailer news, we’ve received word via Stuff.co.nz that Wellington will not host the premiere of the second Hobbit movie. Part of a deal signed with Warner...
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Is the Desolation of Smaug premiere bound for Moscow?
Via Ringer The Hutt: a couple of reports have surfaced from the most recent Supanova event in Sydney (held just this weekend) that the world premiere of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug may be...
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