May 20, 2013
Collecting The Precious – The Bridge Direct Comic-Con 2013 Exclusive Figure Announcement
Last year for Comic-Con the folks at The Bridge Direct lead off their line of figures for The...
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May 8, 2013
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop Updated
General Manager of Weta Limited Tim Launder teased what’s to come from Weta Workshop over the...
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April 23, 2013
Collecting The Precious – The Bridge Direct ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’
The Bridge Direct fresh off the success of their line of figures for The Hobbit: An Unexpected...
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April 1, 2013
Peter Jackson to begin wearing glasses again
From Weta Digital, comes this exciting press release about a certain something all fans of Sir...
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March 31, 2013
Our Special Desolation of Smaug Panel TODAY at WonderCon in Anaheim!
HAPPY EASTER and welcome to WonderCon! Join us today as we bring amazing Hobbity goodness to all...
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March 28, 2013
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Bombur Statue Review
The final of the six statues that Weta Workshop had displayed at Comic-Con 2012 has arrived to many...
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March 26, 2013
Getting to know greendragon
Welcome to the latest “Getting to know…” questions that need answering....
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March 15, 2013
2013: The Year of the Cosplay
Cons, movies, cosplay days, and more! 2013 is turning out to be a geektastic year for me and my...
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February 26, 2013
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Bombur Statue
The Comic-Con six are now complete. At last years Comic-Con Weta Workshop had displayed six statues...
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December 30, 2012
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...
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November 16, 2012
Collecting The Precious: Weta Workshop’s The Fellowship of the Ring Set Two
In June of this year the folks at Weta Workshop answered a long-standing request from the fans of...
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October 28, 2012
Collecting The Precious – Sideshow Collectibles Sauron Premium Format
For Sideshow Collectibles the month of October means their annual Spooktacular event. Now the event...
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October 21, 2012
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Bilbo Baggins Statue Review
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit We got...
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September 5, 2012
Getting to know Nicole Roberts
Welcome to our latest “Getting to know” questions that need answering. This month...
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September 4, 2012
Collecting The Precious: Gentle Giant Thorin Oakenshield mini-bust review
“May the hair on his toes never fall off!” -Thorin talking about their burglar Bilbo...
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September 1, 2012
Collecting The Precious – The Bridge Direct The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Figures Up For Pre-Order
We revealed in July during HobbitCon 2012 that pre-sales for The Bridge Direct’s line of...
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August 28, 2012
Have you Snagged EMPIRE’s US iPad Edition Yet?
Have you snagged your copy yet? One of our very favorite magazines and supporter of our Road to...
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August 18, 2012
Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Thorin Oakenshield Statue Review
“and this is our leader, Thorin Oakenshield.” -Gandalf to Bilbo...
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August 1, 2012
Collecting The Precious: Gentle Giant’s Comic-Con booth
Our final look at the booths of Comic-Con 2012 ends with Gentle Giant. Gentle Giant will be doing...
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July 30, 2012
TORn Message Boards Weekly Roundup – July 30, 2012
Welcome to our collection of TORn’s hottest topics for the past week. If you’ve fallen...
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July 28, 2012
Shakespeare inspires Armitage’s Thorin Oakenshield
Meredith Woerner of io9.com posted a video interview with Richard Armitage talking at Comic-Con...
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July 26, 2012
Third ‘Hobbit’ movie: How? What? When? Why?
I admit, when I first heard talk of “a third ‘Hobbit’ movie” from the floor...
By MrCere
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July 25, 2012
TheOneRing.net Exclusive first look at EMPIRE’s ‘Hobbit Edition’
One of our very favorite magazines, EMPIRE Magazine, is publishing their ‘The Hobbit: An...
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July 24, 2012
Our staff react to the Comic-Con Hobbit showreel
As well as busily staffing the TORn booths at Comic-con, a handful of our staff were mad devoted...
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July 24, 2012
LA Times: Third ‘Hobbit’ movie may be coming from Peter Jackson
The LA Times writes more on the speculation that Warner Bros. and Peter Jackson are looking to...
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July 24, 2012
Collecting The Precious – Comic-Con 2012 Sideshow Collectibles Booth
Our HobbitCon (aka Comic-Con) recap continues with a look at the Sideshow Collectibles booth....
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July 23, 2012
‘Hobbit’ Vlog #8 unleashed — and it is kinda awesome
Peter Jackson and company swooped into Comic-Con and unleashed some footage for the ravenous fans...
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July 23, 2012
Collecting The Precious – Comic-Con Weta Workshop – Part 2
Part 2 (see Part 1) of our Weta Workshop Comic-Con 2012 coverage is an comprehensive video of their...
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July 22, 2012
Collecting The Precious – Comic-Con 2012 Weta Workshop Booth – Part 1
As, we continue our HobbitCon coverage we have a two part experience at the Weta Workshop booth....
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July 19, 2012
Comic-Con ‘Hobbit’ press conference transcript
Ringer Kellyduck sends us this link to what appears to be a substantial partial transcript of the...
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July 19, 2012
Mondo’s stunning LoTR-themed posters
Mondo, the Alamo Drafthouse’s poster house, debuted a set of three new posters at Comic-Con,...
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July 18, 2012
Video: Mythbusters’ Adam Savage the ringwraith
Weve already seen some fantastic photos of Adam Savage convincingly disguised as a Nazgul for this...
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July 17, 2012
Popular Comic-Con ‘OBEY’ Shirt now available Online!
After receiving multiple requests, we are finally making our Comic-Con 2012 ‘OBEY’...
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July 17, 2012
TORn’s ultimate Comic-Con 2012 round-up!
So over the last 24 to 48 hours, there’s only been about half a billion articles posted...
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July 17, 2012
Nimpentoad authors out and about at Hobbitcon!
If you’ve not heard of Nimpentoad, it’s a wonderful children’s fantasy story by...
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July 16, 2012
Dr Grordbort: the misadventures of Lord Cockswain
Those who watched TORn’s live Comic Con HobbitCon feed might have Weta Workshop’s Greg...
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July 16, 2012
Peter Jackson On Doing Away With Miniature Photography For The Hobbit
Given the awe-inspiring miniatures and “bigatures” used for The Lord of the...
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July 16, 2012
Richard Armitage on being Thorin Oakenshield
Our own Cliff “Quickbeam” Broadway got the chance to have a few words with Richard...
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July 16, 2012
Deadline.com’s Q&A With Peter Jackson On The Hobbit
Mike Fleming over at Deadline.com has a great Q&A with Peter Jackson post the 12.5 minute...
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July 16, 2012
Full transcript of Comic-Con Hobbit Panel Q&A!
In case you don’t have much bandwidth, or can’t get to Youtube for whatever reason,...
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