Notes From Middle Earth

Welcome to a model Middle-earth

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:51:50 GMT

If our New Zealand cousins are not eating second breakfasts and dreaming about wizard fireworks, it is not for lack of exposure to the hobbit world this week.

Following the world premiere ...

At last, The Hobbit gets its precious premiere

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:13:46 GMT

"Wellington, what can I say," sneers Andy Serkis as Gollum. "I can say it's nice to be back, isn't it."

Tens of thousands of fans give a rousing cheer on the 500-metre red carpet outside ...

Jackson reveals Hobbit woes ahead of premiere

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:12:36 GMT

Flanked by Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Barry Humphries and Martin Freeman, an upbeat Peter Jackson has talked frankly ahead of the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ...

A journey through Middle-earth

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:02:24 GMT

From the forest, an elvin princess suddenly emerged.

Walking with that elf's light step and that distant look so familiar from The Lord of the Rings movies, she stood silently, in ...

Wellington becomes Middle Earth amid Hobbit fever

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:03:58 GMT

"As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him."

- JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit

Touching ...

Can Peter Jackson do it again?

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 03:13:01 GMT

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on ...