If You Didn't Notice.. New Videos are in the Video Page..and the Channel.

Hey check out our most recent video reaching out to the Bieb on twitter. You can help us out over on twitter and ask @justinbieber to give us a RT http://bit.ly/qLo2ex ( <-- cut and paste this) Here's what the video is. Hope you love it.

Hey btw, if you scroll down to the bottom of the website you can click on the youtube button to go to our channel. You should subscribe to us and follow our blog--just sayin. There will be something new on the channel every other Tuesday (at least sometimes more!) Help us share it! You should follow us on Twitter and Facebook too.

5 Minutes of Fame... Literally.

TheOneRing.net has given me the ever so coveted 5 minutes of fame that so many Tolkien fans seek. On their latest episode of Hobbit in 5, they featured one of our Road to the Shire background images, and made may day. We are not just speaking of any ordinary image either. It is beautifully framed with me looking slightly to the left, as if something glorious is happening over there. Plus, sharing the screen with Rebekah Platt and her Pac Man shirt was stellar. Thank you Hobbit in 5!

The Land of M.E.N. (Middle Earth News)

"Meet the Hobbits Behind 'Road to the Shire' in our Exclusive Interview," their words, not mine. Although it would have been hilarious to record our own interview and pass it off as legitimate, this actually did happen. The producers at Middle Earth News, Tracking All Things Middle Earth, asked us for am exclusive interview. We didn't want the attention so we declined the generously placed offer... PSYCHE! We were thrilled and jumped at the opportunity. So read up on it, mate. Follow the link, Exclusive MEN Interview, and enjoy. 

No girls, it's not a 100 hottest Men interview, no Gyllenhaal, Pitt or Reynolds. And guys, don't let your buddy see you clicking on a link with such a title, eh?

Hobbits on Wheels

Watch for the Hobbits on Wheels around Provo and neighboring cities!

The Provo Outsource

Road to the Shire is designed to succeed if the fans want it to. Olo, Toad, and myself, of course are not going to rest until we get back to the Shire, but the promptness with which our journey takes place is in your hands not ours.
We recognized early on in this process that we needed as much help as we could get. Thus far, we have been graced by the presence of professional actors, dancers, singer/song writers, rappers, voice recorders, and several more. This post goes out to one of these talented individuals who played Polando the Blue Wizard in our trailer video. Thanks again Critter.

Christopher Sherwood Davis, from Pepperell, MA, received his BFA in Acting from Brigham Young University and studied with the Moscow Art Theatre School: Stanislavski Summer School in Cambridge, MA. Christopher can currently be seen in All's Well That Ends Well with Utah Shakespeare in the Park, and soon in The Three Musketeers at the Covey Center and in the feature film WWJD. Recent stage work includes Astrov in Uncle Vanya (USP), Reginald in Getting Married (BYU), James in Selfless (BYU, also billed as They Shoot Horses Don't They), Colin in Absent Friends (BYU), and Rosse in Macbeth (BYU). Christopher can also be seen as Simon in the critically acclaimed web-series The Book of Jer3miah. Christopher has twice been nominated to compete for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship through KC-ACTF and in 2010 was recognized as a regional finalist. Christopher is also an accomplished acting trainer and recently directed A Midsummer Night's Dream (USP).

Sneak Peek- Bieber Video

Hello and good day.
To all our fans and supporters out there, we appreciate all of the help, donations and buzz thus far. Our trailer video got 1,000 hits in the first week. So it is with great pleasure that we give you a little preview of the next video to land on our page. This one is dedicated to Justin Bieber and his fans as well as to all of you Roadtotheshire fans. So help us get JB on our side to persuade Peter Jackson to invite us back to the Shire!

1st verse- Lyric sneak peek:

We know you love us,

we know you care.

Just tweet about us,

hit like or share.

Cause we are furry,

our need is dire.

And we must get back, get back, get back to the shire!

*Once the video is up, you will also be able to download the original track we cut for $1.

Cheers!

Olo, Toad, and Beri

The Dream is Happening

When I was in elementary school, a friend of mine introduced me to the J.R.R. Tolkien series, The Lord of the Rings. I wasn't much of a reader back then, and the series was definitely above my reading level. I had no idea what fantasy books were and I had certainly never heard of Middle Earth or even Tolkien. The only thing I knew about hobbits was the small, creepy culdesac in the avenues next to Salt Lake called Hobbitville. But I went for it anyway. Little did I know it would turn out to be the greatest series I would ever read. Peter Jackson and crew had just come out with the Fellowship of the Ring movie. Thus, fantasy books gained an aspect of "cool" without which, would have led to me to hide my new passion in it's entirety. All of the sudden, I found myself shopping for Tolkien based trinkets and memorabilia online and at book fairs. I poured over those books and watched the movies repeatedly. I longed to visit the Shire and live the life of a halfling.
Ironically enough, my physical appearance resembled that of a hobbit in a few ways. I was short for my age, had long, curly, brown hair, was in-shape(round is a shape), and I smoked a lot of Pipeweed... ok, I never smoked. But the rest was true. I belonged in the Shire.
After I finished The Hobbit for the first time, I began wondering when Peter Jackson would announce the production of said book into a feature film. It was inevitable that it would happen, just a question of when. I decided to write a letter to Jackson. Not only would I ask him about his timetable, but it seemed only fair that I offer my services as a hobbit look-alike as well. I could think of no better way to feed my Tolkien hunger. I am sorry to admit that fear got the best of me, however. Jackson didn't need more hobbits, and he certainly didn't need amateur actors. I had played Hamlet in the 6th grade school play, but that hardly compared. Besides, I didn't even know the address to send the letter to. So I destroyed it. My friends and family would have just laughed anyway.
My passion began to dwindle. I stopped wearing the replica ring-on-the-chain I had purchased and set it neatly in its miniature Mt. Doom stand on the back of my shelf. My dreams of the shire were over.
Fast forward to 2011. I am studying advertising at BYU. My friend Jon Wright approaches me to continue a conversation we had a few weeks earlier concerning a summer project. "What if the theme based itself on The Hobbit. They just started production in March."
Fast forward about one half of one millisecond. The passion and dreams were back. We are going to make it to the shire. But we can not do this alone.
Hopefully most of you have found that soft spot in your heart for making dreams come true. This blog is dedicated to Aimee Fresh, for donating the first dollar to our dream. Thank you Aimee!

If you don't feel like donating, help us with our social media endeavors. Blog, tweet, comment, like, retweet, text (or anything else) about us so as to get Peter Jackson's attention. Ideally, he will invite us to be extras in one of the greatest epics ever told, The Hobbit. So spread the word, The Road to the Shire is here. Stay tuned for more of our blog posts, videos, photos, etc.
Cheers, and God bless.
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