The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Movies, Art, Literature, Gaming 
Evie was introduced to Tolkien's work by her boyfriend, over a beer in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford. She went home, read the books and, a while later, married her boyfriend. She has only recently discovered fandom, after years of eye-rolling by her husband and children, and is delighted to find it warm and welcoming and not-at-all weird. As well as tracking down bits of news and sharing them with others, she leads ponies for Riding for the Disabled and loves the cinema and theatre and her wildlife garden.
Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit, is continuing his round of interviews in Australia and is delighting us by always seeming to find something new to say! In his interview with yourmovies he says […]
Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit has been busy with premieres, interviews and promotions these last few months and is down in Australia just now, promoting The Hobbit prior to its DVD release on 1st May. […]
A special showing of The Hobbit will take place in Australia this week. Warner Brothers and Popcorn Taxi are presenting The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey with an exclusive Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield) Q&A Live On Stage. Richard Armitage […]
Actors Graham McTavish, Dean O’Gorman and Stephen Hunter aka The Hobbit dwarves Dwalin, Fili and Bombur did a question and answer panel at Supanova in Melbourne recently. Hear them talk about gold in their boots, […]
A decade ago Weta Digital led the way in CGI, creating wonderful digital characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now their sister company, Weta Workshop, is doing the same in the printing of 3D props. […]
Earlier in the year we talked to Black Milk about their The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit inspired clothing line. Now we’re delighted to bring you news of the latest releases from their […]
The Hobbit:An Unexpected Journey is back at No.1 in the charts for DVD and Blu-ray sales in the US. The film, which has been out in the US for four weeks, went to the top […]
Amy Hubbard, casting director, gives a great insight into casting The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and talks about Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood in this Film Club video. In another interview, this time […]
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 […]
Wellington’s film industry generated $828 million in revenues in the year to April 2012 according to figures from Statistics NZ . This was up 67 per cent on 2011, with films like The Hobbit. Tintin and […]
