September 2nd
As you came to herenistarion.org today we have our Tolkien memorial page up,today our thoughts go to our beloved Profesor Tolkien who passed 29 years ago. We thank you. EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!! The Staff of Heren Istarion would like to invite one and all, member's and non-member's to its September 22nd Picnic at the Cloister's
to celebrate Bilbo and Frodo's birthday!. There will be Lord of the Rings give-aways, raffles for Lord of the Rings , namingly an autographed copy of The Art of the Fellowship of the Ring by Gary Russell, and other prizes to be announced. If you want to spend the day with New York's only Tolkien Society Smial, and have a celebration of our own, Hobbit style join us! There has been an update to our Hobbit Recipes page, some great ideas for our picnic and for your own dinner table. Check out Merry's Matzah Ball Soup (for those celebrating the coming Jewish New Year),Boromir's Blazing Burrito's,Pippin's Rice and Beans, and Sauron's salsa. Lastly for today, our Heren Istarion Logo Design Contest was to end yesterday, but we have left it open slightly longer, read on why and what you can do to win some great prizes!
If you would like to help out with this event or find out more details as they develop email Anthony(Chairman) at : HERENISTARION@yahoo.com
---Chairman
September 4th
SEPTEMBER 22nd PICNIC EVENT UPDATE!!!
As we previously announced we shall be holding a Picnic in honor of Bilbo and Frodo's birthday at the Cloister's.
Check all the great event information in our new events section here.We shall have a number of give-aways, a raffle for some great new Lord of the Rings titles, and some other awesome prizes Middle-Earth Trivia Game, all provided by, with many thanks, to our friends at: Houghton Mifflin . So see all the info and if you have any ideas or questions email Anthony at :HERENISTARION@YAHOO.COM
As we had previously announced our Staff Artist Catherine and her fellow employee Laurie will be holding a reading group for The Two Towers at Barnes and Noble at 4 Astor Place, in Manhattan, NYC. The reading event shall be on November 1st, 2002 at 7:30 pm. The Staff of Heren Istarion shall be in attendance for this fine night of pure Tolkien reading. Sign up for Catherine and Lauries Yahoo Group BNFantasyandHorror here or email Catherine at:BNFantasyandHorror@yahoo.com
I also would like to bring to everyone's attention a great site brought to my attention by Patti, RingQuest's News Chief. Its a lovely fan site dedicated to Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings so go and see all the abundance of great info and goodies they have to offer!
---Chairman
September 7th
Looks like New York Tolkien Fans will have a busy late September, come hang with Heren Istarion on the 22nd then at the following event with Alan Lee! Thanks to our friends at Houghton Mifflin for their press release.
September 11th 2002
With Great Honor and Respect Heren istarion would like to say thank you to all the Uniformed Officers FDNY NYPD PAPD EMS
who gave their lives to save others.
United we Stand
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As you all know we are holding our Bilbo Birthday picnic. One of the great prizes you can win in our Trivia contest is the Great new Edition of The Annotated Hobbit by Douglas Anderson. More of this can be seen on the Houghton Mifflin site. Do you have any of your own experiences with the Lord of the Rings film actors? Or any non-film Tolkien tales to tell? Well send them over to us. In our new Fun Stuff area of herenistarion.org, we have a fan section with a great report from one of our Hobbits on the prowl. Also the Deep Thoughts section has a great start from our lovely Co-Chair Jessica. We also would like to ask if you are a member, or even if you are not, help support Heren Istarion by purchasing products from the Staff Picks area or on any one of the banners you see on this site. A percentage of your purchase helps keep Heren Istarion up and running, with its member kits and production of its journal Parma Nole.
---Chairman
September 17th 2002
Our September 22nd event draws near! Come one and all to help celebrate the birthdays of our beloved ringbearers Bilbo and Frodo. We will be having a few great games of Middle-Earth Trivia, where contestants can have a chance at winning great prizes, if you do not feel up to playing then take a chance at our raffle to win great titles from our friends at Houghton Mifflin. There shall be great Lord of the Rings give-aways as well. If you are not a member, and wish to become one, then be sure to see one of us at the picnic to know how to sign up. Visit our Events page to see the new link to the Cloister's we have put up for more concise directions. Celebrated artist Alan Lee will discuss his contributions as illustator
of the centenary edition of THE LORD OF THE RINGS and the 60th anniversary
edition of THE HOBBIT (Houghton Mifflin) and as Conceptual Artist for
the film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson (New Line Cinema), illustrated
with behind-the-scenes footage. Presentation to be followed by book
signing Date:September 26, 6:30 -- 8:00 p.m. ---Chairman
In the same week:
And just announced:
Alan Lee will be doing a booksigning at the Barnes & Noble in Greenwich Village (396 Avenue of the Americas at 8th Street) in New York City on Friday, September 27, at 12:30 p.m. He will only be signing copies of his books at this event. No memorabilia,please.
The Staff of Heren Istarion will be in attendance at one or both of these events to present Mr. Alan Lee with a Lifetime Membership to Heren Istarion!
I would like to make a note to all new members, one to say thank you for your interest in Heren Istarion, and two to say please be patient we have your membership packages ready to go, except for our journal Parma Nole, issue 4 is just about ready to go and should be ready by the end of this week, as an added bonus we have included issue 3 for your enjoyment! Again Thank You all who have come to be members of Heren Istarion, and we are dedicated to bringing to you and New York the best in Tolkien!
September 17th 2002
Always dedicated to the proliferation and study of Tolkien's works we would like to share with you a wonderful book by author Verlyn Flieger.Winner of the 1998 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies
---Chairman
On another note, this may have been discussed to already elsewhere but I found it quite interesting NOT to see Narya, the ring of Fire upon Gandalf the Grey's finger in the film The Fellowship of the the Ring. Upon opening a pack of Decipher's Realms of the Elflords I got a really cool card
Narya
As we all know Cirdan the Shipwright gives this ring to him when he arrives at the Grey Havens, ca. 1000 TA. Does this mean we will see him bearing it in the November release of the extended FOTR? Since I believe these card images are from FOTR
Tell us what you think. HERENISTARION@YAHOO.COM
September 18th 2002
Yesterday we shared with you a few words on A Question of Time by Winner of the 1998 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies, Verlyn Flieger. Today we bring to you an excerpt from an interview Heren Istarion's Co-Chair Jessica Burke conducted with Ms.Flieger recently.It can be found in theParma Nole section. The full length interview can be read in a future issue of Parma Nole If you are a member,potential member,a regular, or are here for the first time to our site then vote for us on Tolkien's Top 100! At last check Heren Istarion was at number 25!
---Chairman
September 20th 2002
Hullo all! This is Stephanie a.k.a of Heren Istarion, I received a most interesting tidbit from a fellow hobbit today. He located an article that discussed the most "corner filling" food a hobbit could eat. The strangest thing is that the hobbit who is responsible for bring to life these scrumptious recipes has the exact same name as the one that was given to me by my hobbit elders. This article entitled Middle Earth Feast: Tolkien fan concocts a meal fit for a Hobbit is a great read and it also has caused my tummy to start rumbling for second breakfast. Well I?m off to fill-up the corners! Have fun reading this great article and maybe you can try some of the recipes in your own hobbit hole.
ATTENTION!
September 23rd 2002
Our Birthday Celebration went off smashingly, we all gathered under our party tree in honor of our beloved hobbits Bilbo and Frodo. After noshing on some sandwiches, mushrooms, lembas, and brownies we all gathered round for some Middle Earth Trivia! Afterwards in true hobbit fashion EVERYONE went home with a birthday gift, and some went home with more than one! Look for pictures and a more detailed report in the next day or two. There also has been some great news and discussions coming from our friends over at RingQuest. Our friend Patti--SheElf over at Ringquest writes:"If you need a laugh today, check out my post "No
Comment" about a 'could-have-been' commentary on LOTR by Christopher Lee and Ian McKellan." Please note these are COULD HAVE BEEN commentaries, this means that they are fictitious and LOTS O'FUN!!!!
If you are a New York Tolkien fan and love the work of Alan Lee then join us on Thursday, September 26th (6:30pm-8:30pm)for THE LORD OF THE RINGS: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH ALAN LEE Celebrated artist Alan Lee will discuss his contributions as illustator of the centenary edition of THE LORD OF THE RINGS and the 60th anniversary edition of THE HOBBIT (Houghton Mifflin) and as Conceptual Artist for the film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson (New Line Cinema), illustrated with behind-the-scenes footage. Presentation to be followed by book signing. ---Chairman
September 25th 2002
We have updated the events page with pics and details of our Birthday Celebration for Bilbo and Frodo.One of the prizes won at our Trivia Game was The Annotated Hobbit by Douglas Anderson. If you are not familiar yet with this great book see a Text Excerpt and a great selection of images. If you live in New York join us for tomorrow night for an evening with Alan Lee, get your tickets via Moviefone.com or buy them at the box office.
---Chairman
September 27th 2002
Last night was a night to remember, words cannot even begin to describe the intensity of images and thoughts of last night. We had a fabulous time with the audience and Mr. Alan Lee, we got to present him with a Lifetime Membership to Heren Istarion and were able to speak with him personally, please check out Events page for a great transcription of what we saw and heard during the event, courtesy of our great Co-Chair Jessica Burke. We took a number of pictures(Many thanks to our impromtu photographer:Heren Istarion Member Dennis) and were able to also meet with some new members of Heren Istarion, we thank you for coming and it was a pleasure to meet all of you. We shall have the pictures ready soon. ---Chairman
September 29th 2002
Ever have the desire to learn Sindarin? Now you can, a great course is being offered in Sindarin via a learned scholar over at Ringquest. Hope to see you there!
September 30th 2002
WIZARD T-SHIRT DESIGN WINNERS!!! We have chosen a winning entry in our Wizard T-Shirt Logo Design Contest. It ended up being a tie, so we awarded both 1st place entries great prizes. But only one of them is going to be featured on the Wizard membership T-Shirt! So go now and find out who won! Are you gearing up for The Two Towers as we are? Well join us Friday, November 1st, at 7:30pm for The Two Towers reading group!. Our Staff Artist Catherine and her Co-worker Laurie are hosting this great event, it will be and evening of reading purely Tolkien's words of the upcoming film. See how it plays out in the book before you see the film. There will be a contest as well with great give aways and prizes! More details as we get closer to the event. If you are a fan of this site, or a member we are rising on the Tolkien Top 100 charts, currently we are number 11, help support Heren Istarion and clicking on the Tolkien Top 100 banner on our main page. Are you a New York Tolkien Fan and/or a Heren Istarion Member? Members and Non-Members alike, we are inviting all Tolkien Fans alike for our The Two Towers LINE PARTY!!!!! We have begun to put together this event and shall release more details in the near future as we get closer to the release of the film, but if you wish to sign up now email the Staff of Heren Istarion. ---Chairman
As you know we are holding a picnic for Bilbo and Frodo's birthday on Sunday September 22nd. If it so happens that on the morning of the picnic you wake up in your comfy hobbit hole and it is raining then turn back over and go to sleep in you comfy hobbit bed. Being that the picnic is an outdoor event we would not want all of our lovely mathoms to become wet. We will post an update if the picnic cannot not occur and let all faithful hobbit know our plans for a rain date.
Another little tidbit of information for all video game lovers. Universal Interactive's The Lord of the Rings release date has been moved up. It is going to be released on 24th of September (YAY!!)for XBox and GameBoy Advance. It will be realeased for PS2 and all other game consoles, including the PC version, on the 22nd of October. .
Travel and say hello to them and join their discussions!
To purchase tickets,($15.00) visit the Chelsea Clearview Cinema (23rd st.btwn 7&8) box office or call or log onto Moviefone.com:(777-FILM)
A limited number of $100 premium tickets are available. They include reserved seating, transportation, and access to all-evening celebrity champagne reception.