A Lord of the Rings cast reunion is coming to Toronto
We look forward to welcoming a torrent of cosplaying Ringers to our fair city
Major news for Hobbit-heads: this summer, Toronto will be one of 11 North American cities hosting a Lord of the Rings cast reunion featuring Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Elijah Wood.
The special event, announced today, will take place as part of Fan Expo, on August 29, in celebration of the film trilogy’s 25th anniversary.
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“These evenings are expected to sell out faster than pints at The Green Dragon,” said a press release, and on that note, we’d love to see Toronto go full Swiftie mode for our visiting Tolkienists—police on horseback dressed as Galadriel, a street called Frodo Baggins Boulevard and thematically named beverages at every bar.
We’ll throw a gin “Gimli” out there, but we have time to workshop this. Boromir-tini?
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
