Welcome to the New TORn

http://www.theonering.net

Welcome to the New TORn!

TheOneRing.net would like to welcome you to the brand new website! Before we
review some of the new highlights, we owe you an explanation of just what
happened and why we’ve been offline for the last few days.

While we wish we could say we had some exciting Hobbit Movie announcement as
the reason we were offline, the real reason was nothing so glamorous.

TheOneRing.net experienced a catastrophic hardware failure. All of
TheOneRing.net, and its many subsites (TBHL, KongisKing.net, etc), were
completely lost, with no hope of a restorable back-up. (Yea, we were pretty
shaken by it too!) Why this happened, we are not 100% sure, but much like
the determination of hobbits, we weren’t going to let this keep us down.

TheOneRing.net Staff went into overdrive - While one team of staffers
tackled the task of trying to retrieve the old data, another team tackled
the reality of creating a brand new website as soon as possible.

We are proud to announce that after a miraculous three days of scrambling,
both teams have succeeded in their goals. We now have a brand new stable
website and we have restored access to the ‘old’ website.

The new TORn has some great new features:

* A brand new look, without completely tossing out the old TORn you grew to
love.
* Easily navigable categorized news (RSS feeds for each category coming
soon!)
* A much quicker and stable website
* The ability to quickly share TORn news with friends/blogs/news services
via the ‘Share This’ link
* A handy dandy event calendar to keep track of upcoming Tolkien events as
well as the daily news (We will also be adding the Middle-earth Calendar
shortly)
* A more stable and accurate poll
* Quick and easy searching of the news database (We’ll be adding the last 10
years shortly!)
* Easily enhanced with widgets and plugins from WordPress

The evolution of TheOneRing.net is not over. We are going to adding a few
enhancements in the next few days as well as still developing the look and
feel of the new site. We will be adding all of our archived news from
1999-present and we hope to switch over the Scrapbook to our new website as
soon as possible. In addition, you will see things change here and there
while we continue to get used to our new ’skin’ so to speak.

As I mentioned below, the ‘old’ TheOneRing.net was recovered, and still able
to be surfed and enjoyed by the masses. You can find the ‘old’ TORn at
http://archives.theonering.net.

We’d like to thank the entirety of Tolkien fandom for their patience and
support during our revival. We hope you enjoy the new TheOneRing.net and we
look forward to many years of celebrating Tolkien fandom together.

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