Post Tagged with: "Nelson"

WIN! A Trip to ‘The Hobbit’ Film Sites

Win a trip to New Zealand and the filming locations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in this easy to enter competition and help Nelson become the town with the fastest internet in […]

Forging The One Ring: An Interview with Halfdan Hansen

The Jens Hansen Gold and Silversmith workshop opened in Nelson, New Zealand in 1968. It’s owner and founder, Jens Hansen, was classically trained in gold and silversmithing in New Zealand and Denmark, but he made his […]

Nelson: There and Back Again

Remember last December when the wet weather in Nelson brought the location filming of  The Hobbit to an abrupt end ? The effect of the threat of a deluge was all nicely captured on Peter […]

‘Hobbit’ Holiday in Nelson

As we saw in Peter Jackson’s 6th Production Video, New Zealand doesn’t do things by halves. When The Hobbit cast and crew got rained out of their location filming at the Pelorus Bridge in Nelson, […]

Hobbit Helps Local Economy

  The Nelson region of New Zealand was hit by terrible flooding last December, cutting short the filming of The Hobbit. The floods, the worst for 50 years, affected trading in what would usually be […]

Bad Weather Forces “Hobbit” Crew to Move from Nelson

Heavy rain has forced the cast and crew of “The Hobbit” movies from their filming locations in Nelson, New Zealand. The crew that was filming at the Pelorus Bridge campground packed up in a hurry, […]

Hobbit Stars Arrive In Nelson

Cast and crew of “The Hobbit” landed at Nelson airport yesterday, according to Stuff.co.nz. Freelance cameraman Ross Wearing snapped some photos of the celebrities after receiving a tip that their chartered plane was scheduled to […]

Nelsonians Haven’t Seen the Last of Hobbits

About 150 people from The Hobbit production left Nelson Airport after filming in the area for a week.  A crew member let slip that the group filming at Takaka Hill at Canaan Downs was The Hobbit’s […]

Hobbit Film Crew Arrives at Takaka Hill

The next stop on the block of location shooting for The Hobbit films is Takaka Hill at the Canaan Downs Scenic Reserve in New Zealand. According to Stuff.co.nz, crews were setting up and guarding structures […]