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Nelsonians Haven’t Seen the Last of Hobbits

Posted by on November 20, 2011 at 9:21 am

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 “second unit.” According to him, “The main unit goes through first – we’re sort of like the mop-up crew.” As stated by the Nelson Mail, the crew worked grueling hours, from 4:30am to 7:00pm every day for six days. The same crew member said that the second unit would be joining the main unit in Dunedin, but that Nelson locals were “bound to” have some celebrity sightings when the main unit returned to the area in December.

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Author: Lily’s first experience with Tolkien was when the eccentric Mrs. H performed all of the characters from The Hobbit in her seventh grade class. In high school, she felt obliged to decline a second date with a boy who said he had no interest in reading The Lord of the Rings. In college, she unwisely decided to reread her beloved copy of The Hobbit during finals week, with only semi-disastrous results. When not writing for Middle-earth News, Lily tries not to unnerve her coworkers and family with her extreme geekery, but somehow, Star Wars, Star Trek, Sherlock, Merlin, Doctor Who, The Princess Bride, Back to the Future, superheroes, Disney movies, and of course, Tolkien, seem to have relevance in EVERY conversation.

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