An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
This amazing stained glass featuring a map of Middle-earth was created by Gerard Baines as his exam piece retraining in stain glass art. What do you think? Does he pass? (Lily Milos via Joe Gilronan) TomTom, the [...]
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Martin Freeman’s New Film Gets NZ Premiere
Martin Freeman’s film The World’s End is to get a premiere in New Zealand. Martin (who plays Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit trilogy) stars alongside Simon Pegg (Star Trek) and Nick Frost in this new film. The Dominion [...]
Richard Armitage: Five Armies “The Biggest Battle”
Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit, says the Battle of Five Armies in The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be ‘ …possibly …bigger than you may have seen in Lord of the Rings…’ [...]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
Nathan Shields uses his unique talent of pancake portraiture to raise money for his children’s college funds. His amazing Hobbit pancakes look too good to eat! Except the Great Goblin. I can think of other reasons not to [...]
“Hobbit” Extras Needed
If you thought you’d missed your chance to be an extra in “The Hobbit,” then think again! 3 foot 7 ltd is seeking men and women with “character faces” to be extras in “The Hobbit.” [...]
NZ Tourism Flourishes Thanks to ‘The Hobbit’
The release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey played no small part in the dramatic increase in New Zealand’s tourist numbers. International visitors for March 2013 were up 13% from March 2012. Population statistics project [...]
No Tolkien Mountain For New Zealand
New Zealand resident Aaron Nicholson applied to have an unnamed peak in Fiordland National Park christened “Tolkien Mountain” in honor of the Lord of the Rings author, but the New Zealand Geographic Board has declined the [...]
All Agog To Hear Azog
We’ve heard how it took Peter Jackson some time to get the character of Azog the Defiler right in The Hobbit films. Now Kiwi actor Manu Bennett, the man who plays Azog, has given an interview [...]
Win a Signed ‘Hobbit’ Artwork Book from Weta!
Chromacon is an Annual Independent Illustration and Comics Arts Festival held in Auckland, New Zealand. It is a grassroots effort to showcase original New Zealand art and promote self-published work. Admission is free at this [...]
New Book on The Hobbit Crisis
In the years that have followed since the release of Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” films, many fans eagerly hoped to see J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit adapted for the big screen. Initially standing [...]
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