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Misty Mountains

Check out YouTube user Malufenix’s beautiful cover of the song Misty Mountains, from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

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Vote for Bilbo Baggins!

The Hobbit’s own Bilbo Baggins, is nominated for Best Hero at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. He’s up against some tough competition and needs your vote. Lets help him win!

Simply hashtag #votebilbo on any photo or tweet on Instagram and Twitter to cast your vote.

Keep checking back to see who’s winning here.

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Lawyer’s Amazingly Detailed Analysis of Bilbo’s Contract

From Wired:  James Daily, a lawyer and co-author of The Law and Superheroes, typically focuses his legal critiques on the superhero world at the Law and the Multiverse website he runs with fellow lawyer and co-author Ryan Davidson. Today, Daily takes a look a very important cultural document for Wired: The contract between Bilbo Baggins and the dwarves in The Hobbit.

Read the article here.

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Video Blog 10, The Premiere

Peter Jackson’s Video Blogs on the making of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey continues in this 10th installment, covering the movie’s Premiere in Wellington, New Zealand.

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A first-hand account of the World Premiere

Larry D. Curtis, a senior member of the TheOneRing.net staff, was on hand for the Wellington premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and offers this report…

WELLINGTON — “Wellington has already proved it knows how to party, so this takes things to the next level!”

So said Peter Hambleton from the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in Wellington, New Zealand. It was an amazing spectacle with well over 100,000 people gathered on 600 meters of red carpet to watch the stars of the film arrive.

The event was carried live on websites around the globe with nine cameras, including helicopter shots. Some fans arrived early in the morning to choose the best spots in hopes of getting autographs and photos of stars such as Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage and of course, Sir Peter Jackson, the film’s director and co-screenwriter and the toast of the town.

Andy Serkis, who reprises his role as Gollum, also brought an enormous cheer when he showed up with his wife and a big grin and signed autographs for fans. Every actor seemed to make a big splash but Cate Blanchett, despite playing a relatively small role in the film, seemed to make fans the most manic for an autograph. She, like others in the cast, brought along her family to experience the wonder of the event.

Katie Jackson was also in attendance. In an interview shown on the big screen at the event, she revealed that she had not seen the movie yet, on the advice of her father who wanted her to experience it for the first time at the premiere.

The big showing was at the Embassy Theater, which featured high frame rate equipment, the latest in Dolby sound and RealD 3D technology. Attendee James Cameron quipped, “High frame rate is the future.”

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TheOneRing promotes fan screenings

Fan-run website TheOneRing.net has started up its event page to encourage Tolkienites world-wide to organize and meet, especially for midnight movies on the first premiere day of The Hobbit.

TheOneRing organized similar events for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy, with some events checking in at more than 1,200 fans and  well over 10,000 fans participating world wide. Tickets for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey go on sale November 7, leaving would-be attendees and organizers only a little time to select a theater to get together and watch the movie with their fellow fans.

You can see TheOneRing.net’s Line Party 101 page right here and look for, or sign up to lead, a party in your area here.

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