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It’s a Wrap! – One Year Later

6th July, 2012 Peter Jackson has announced on his Facebook page that filming on The Hobbit has wrapped. We made it! Shoot day 266 and the end of principal photography on The Hobbit. Thanks to our fantastic […]

Peter Jackson’s Blog; Goodbye Dwalin

Peter Jackson has just posted this on his live blog of shooting The Hobbit‘s last day.   Goodbye Dwalin! The very lovely Graham McTavish just competed his last shot with honours. Main Unit and Splinter […]

Peter Jackson Live Blogs The Hobbit’s Final Day

Peter Jackson is live blogging the final day of filming The Hobbit. He wrote on his Facebook page: Our last day of shooting. Ever since starting these blogs, there’s been something I thought I’d like […]

Looking Back at The Hobbit Cast in NZ – Part 2 Plays and Premieres

Looking Back at The Hobbit Cast in NZ – Part 2 Plays and Premieres

One of my favourite things from The Hobbit cast’s time in New Zealand, is the “Come and have a go if you think you’re Bard enough” video they took part in, for the New Zealand International […]

Looking Back At The Hobbit Cast In N Z

Filming for The Hobbit finally wraps this week and, feeling a bit nostalgic,  I’ve been looking back at some of the non-Hobbit premieres, shows and charity events the cast attended/took part in, during their time in New […]

From San Diego to Middle-earth

There were no Hobbit panels at the San Diego Comic Con, but the Weta Workshop was there and also an incredible life-sized model of Bag End. After Evangeline Lilly, Manu Bennett also visited the Weta […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

Tumblr artist gataro has created rubber stamps of Bilbo and the thirteen (make that fourteen…there’s a little Gimli!) dwarves from The Hobbit. You can see all of the stamps on Tumblr, and some are even […]

LEGO Lake Town Chase Revealed

LEGO revealed a new  licensed set for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug at San Diego Comic Con: the Lake Town Chase. The set consists of  Lake Town buildings, a ship and five characters. There’s Bilbo and […]

This Week in Middle-earth

15th July, 2941 [The Hobbit] Thorin and Company leave Beorn’s in the afternoon “That is all the advice I can give you. Beyond the edge of the forest I cannot help you much; you must […]

Evangeline Lilly at the San Diego Comic Con

Actress Evangeline Lilly is joining the San Diego Comic Con in the Weta booth during these days. She’s promoting the release of her first book: The Squickerwonkers, the introductory book to a Graphic, Children’s Storybook Series. […]