It's the start of a new day here at the Lord Of The Rings club and we welcome you to our humble middle earth abode. this club is a place where LOTR fans can come and celebrate their passion through art and conversation. feel free to have a look around our little slice of middle earth in dA.

for current news about the club, please visit here!

for an interesting discussion with friends, visit the club forum!

find our current poll listed here!

please feel free to offer suggestions, comments or feedback in regards to improving our club.


Joining!
joining this club is simple. just add us to your +devwatch list, and send us a note with "join club" in the subject line [the subject "Join Club" IS IMPORTANT, if it is someting else, it might be overlooked as something less important.] and we'll add you to the friends list. notes may take a few days to be answered but we'll do our best to get to them as soon as possible. once you've been added as a member we ask that you consider adding us to your 'friends/clubs' journal, list or signature if you have one.

please note: just adding us to your watch list isn't the same as joining, you must send us a note!.

Submissions
only members can submit work to the club in a note with the link only with the subject of the note as "Submission" [the subject is important, so the note is not overlooked.]. not a member? then join!

deviation content or theme must be clearly related to Lord Of The Rings in some manner.

deviation submissions can take on the form of most art or writing however at this time the club does not accept avatars, emotes, icons or desktop screenshots as deviations. deviations which may contain mature content will be reviewed at the discretion of the admin staff. please don't be offended if your work is respectfully declined.

deviations are submitted to the club by deviantART members and are therefore displayed in the gallery with permission. images displayed in this club may not be copied or reproduced without the expressed permission of the original artist of the work. all members of this club are to abide by the deviantART submission guidelines

images used from newline cinema inc. may not be displayed (due to copyright reasons), unless the work is only used in reference to create original fanart. display of work will be at the discretion of the admin. please don't be offended if your work is respectfully declined.

in order to maintain the sanity of the admin's we ask that members submit no more than 2 pieces of work to the club at any one time. just send us a note with "submission" in the subject line and a link to the deviation in your gallery, and we'll consider adding it.

it is dA policy that clubs not +fav the work of it's members. as such, if you're a member (new or old) and your work has been +fav'd by this club we ask that you let us know so we can submit it as a deviation instead. for more information about this, please see dA FAQ #216: Are there any rules for accounts being used as clubs or 'group' accounts?


Competitions
competitions are now underway and it's better to be in it than not! if you have suggestions or ideas for competitions, please let us know. prizes may also be considered; from featured club deviation for a period of time or a subscription to dA. please note: only club members may enter club competitions! for a list of all current competitions, visit here.


Trivia
feel free to share any little pieces of information, news, trivia or details you might happen to know about the Lord Of The Rings.. visit our trivia journal!


Members
for a current list of club members, check out the members & affiliates journal. a special thanks to everyone who supports the club. we're always keen to welcome new members, so feel free to join..



if you'd like to affilate your club with ours, please send us a note!
LOTR affiliates



Misc affiliates
~Battle-Ground ~Sean-Connery-Lovers ~Achilles-Lovers ~united-heros ~Max-Lovers-Unite ~LightDark *Enya-Fanclub ~EuropeanUnion ~DEVIANT4MOVIES ~DoctorWho-Club ~Within-Temptation ~Flanimals ~YWNK ~The-Brothers-Grimm ~King-Kong-Fans ~musicals ~bsbclub ~The-Fantasy-Club ~snapesnoggerFC ~Oompaloompafan *RawEm0tion

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Contact!
if you've got any questions, please feel free to contact me and I'll do my best to help with your enquiry:

founder
[you can also note me at my own account]

[NOTE If you feel that you are up to the challenge to join as an administrator to assist me in keeping the club up to date, then please send a note to =astarsia with the subject as "LOTR admin possition" and we'll discuss it, together. Nobody under 18, please.]

LORD OF THE RINGS - CLUB MEMBERS

JOIN THE CLUB
1.add the club to your watch list
2. send a note to us with Join Club in the title
_{- - It is very important to us that you only put "join club" in the subject of the note, because everything in the notes page of this club is catorgarised. if you fail to put it into the subject it will be deleted, simply because there are lots that come through... so i hope you co-operate, and help me to run this club smoother, thank you.}
3. be patient for a reply! thanks.

_{alphabetical listing ~ we currently have ?? members
please let us know if you're a member and your name is missing..}

MEMBERS - A

to be updated [as with the rest of the alphabetic members]

MEMBERS - B
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AFFILIATE CLUBS
lotr-associated clubs
*tolkien ~aragorn ~Sam-Gamgee ~brandy-hall ~eowynclub ~samwisethebraveclub ~The-Fellowship
~LOTR-TheCLUB *ringwraith-wannabe ~PrideOfGondor ~faramir-fans ~Hobbiton ~LOTRfanclub ~RidersofRohan *elves ~HobbitsClub ~The-Hobbit-Love-Club ~elijah-wood-club ~Faramir-fan-club ~save-the-hobbits

non-associated clubs
~Battle-Ground ~Sean-Connery-Lovers ~Achilles-Lovers ~united-heros ~Max-Lovers-Unite ~LightDark ~Enya-Fanclub ~EuropeanUnion ~DEVIANT4MOVIES ~DoctorWho-Club ~Within-Temptation ~Flanimals ~YWNK ~The-Brothers-Grimm ~King-Kong-Fans ~musicals ~bsbclub *The-Fantasy-Club ~snapesnoggerFC ~Oompaloompafan *RawEm0tion

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Founder
if you've got any questions, please feel free to contact me and i'll do my best to help with your enquiry:

welcome to the Lord Of The Rings trivia journal. feel free to share any little pieces of information, news, trivia or details you might happen to know about the Lord Of The Rings..


general trivia
Author J.R.R. Tolkien wanted his 3rd book to be titled "the War of the Ring." He felt that "The Return of the King" gave away the ending.

In later years (according to the book), after he is about 100 years old, Sam also sails into the West to be with Frodo. There is a reference to this in the line from Annie Lennox's song 'Into the West': 'Don't say, we have come now to the end, white shores are calling - you and I will meet again.' Sam is allowed to sail because he also bore the burden of the One Ring to the Tower at Cirith Ungol, on their way to Mt. Doom.

2005 is the fiftieth anniversary of the complete publication of The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. The first two volumes (The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers) were published in 1954, while the third, The Return of the King, was published on October 20th 1955.

There is no known text in which Tolkien makes a final, unambiguous statement about the shape of Elvish ears.

The Hobbits are a branch of the specifically human race (not Elves or Dwarves) -- hence the two kinds can dwell together (as at Bree), and are called just the Big Folk and Little Folk.



movie trivia
Viggo Mortensen lost a tooth while filming a fight sequence. He went to the dentist on his lunch break, had it patched up, and returned to the set that afternoon.

1,460 eggs were served to the cast and crew for breakfast for every day of shooting.

More than 1,600 pairs of latex ears and feet were used during the shoot, each "cooked" in a special oven running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There was no way of removing the feet at the end of the day without damaging them and so each pair could only be used once. The used feet were shredded to prevent a black market in stolen hobbit feet but apparently Dominic Monaghan (Merry) kept a pair.

Dominic Monaghan (Merry), wore a fat suit made of foam. He drank three liters of water a day so he would not dehydrate.

Sean Astin gained 30 pounds for his role as Samwise.

Orlando Bloom (Legolas) did most of his own stunts and broke a rib in the process.

John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) developed an allergic reaction to his makeup.

Liv Tyler had trouble with her lines in Elvish and was unable to film a whole scene in one go, instead having to learn the dialogue one line at a time.

The map Gandalf picks up in Bilbo's study is a reproduction of the map Tolkien drew for the book "The Hobbit", the prequel to the Fellowship of the Ring.

The three trolls which were turned to stone in "The Hobbit" are in the background during the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, and Strider/Aragorn are resting after fleeing from Weathertop/Amon Sul.

Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, changed its name to Middle Earth for the film's opening.

The original plan was to film "The Hobbit" starring Warwick Davis. But when Miramax balked at the $75 million dollar price tag Peter Jackson took it to New Line which gave him nearly $300 million to make the trilogy

Cate Blanchett joked that she took the role of Galadriel because, "I've always wanted pointy ears".

Director Cameo: [Peter Jackson]
fellowship of the ring - As the belching peasant, outside the Prancing Pony Inn in Bree.
two towers - A soldier at the battle of helm's deep
return of the king - The corsair who was shot with legolas' arrow

Ian McKellen based Gandalf's accent on that of Tolkien himself.

we're always keen to host competitions and your suggestions are always welcome (just send us a note). as per usual, competitions can only be entered by club members. if you're not a member, feel free to join the club!



each month, a selection of deviations that have been submitted to the club will be chosen by the admin and members will be asked to vote for their favourite. the deviation with the most votes will be the clubs featured deviation for the next month. so hurry up.. what are you waiting for? submit!

guidelines
submissions will be chosen from that month only (beginning 1st and ending 25th of each month) by admin.
voting polls for members will be open for 1 week.




we'd like to invite members to participate in an ongoing comp for fan art work. any creative medium (drawing, photomanip, vector etc) can be used for your work.

guidelines
entries must follow the theme for the current competition to be considered for entry
only new art work may be entered into these competitions!
only one entry per club member
work must comply with the dA submissions policy
winners will be decided by members through voting poll and winning entries will be featured on the club shoutboard for a period of time. on the odd occasion, a one month dA subscription may be offered as a prize.

please also note submission guidelines.


theme for august-september 2005 ~ re-interpretation of a LOTR character
a challenge for any artist is to remove popular images of loved characters and to re-create an original and perhaps unique look. this is your chance to re-create lotr characters in a way you think they might look though tolkien's eyes. originality is the key!

entires open august 1st 2005
entries close september 30th 2005


no entries recorded.




dA sponsored competitions
a list of current dA comps can be found at the dA contest information site


if you know of any other competitions related to LOTR (either on or off dA), please let us know so we can list them here!

we're always interested in hearing your thoughts. if you've got any comments about the club, suggestions for improvements and or additions or perhaps even feedback about what's going on, feel free to leave us a comment here.

we value your input, and this is a community of fans, so feel free to make your thoughts known..