The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Movies, Art, Literature, Gaming Our friend and member of Welly-moot (Wellington’s official Tolkien Society smial), Jack Machiela, had the incredible opportunity to attend Weta Cave’s 5th Anniversary Celebration. As it turns out, he and his wife, Alex, were Weta Cave’s very first […]
The Weta Cave in Miramar, Wellington is a small museum, theater, and merchandise store, but to fans of film across the world, this “Cave” is more akin to a dragon’s hoard. The Weta Cave theaterette […]
Just as we’ve all been enjoying The Hobbit panel and the fantastic pics from Armageddon last weekend, we get some sad news for Supanova in Sydney and even sadder news for Supanova in Perth. The […]
UPDATE: The first trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be released Tuesday, June 11! We’ve been anxiously anticipating a trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug every since…well, let’s face it. We’ve been […]
Actor John Callen, who plays the dwarf Oin in The Hobbit trilogy, is now on Facebook! John is a prolific actor, with over one hundred theatre credits to his name, including the major Shakespearean roles […]
The New Zealand Government has revealed plans to explore for platinum in land around Nelson and the upper West Coast. The area includes the Pelorus River in the Richmond Ranges, where the barrel scene for The Hobbit […]
Earlier this year, Middle-Earth News reported that Hobbits Once Lived Among Us. In 2003, scientists unearthed on the Indonesian island Flores the remains of human beings who showed similar attributes to Tolkien’s halflings. Until then […]
Many Tolkien fans around the world are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Peter Jackson’s second part of The Hobbit trilogy The Desolation of Smaug, which will open on December 13. A lot of the growing […]
Dean O’Gorman, who plays Fili the Dwarf in The Hobbit movie, has joined Facebook. After his colleagues Graham McTavish (Dwalin), Jed Brophy (Nori), William Kircher (Bifur), Ian McKellen (Gandalf) and Peter Jackson, Dean O’Gorman opened his personal Facebook […]
You may know our amazing reporter Rachel from her piece “Concerning Pipe Weed: Simply tobacco, or something more?” that offered an in-depth look at an important aspect of hobbit life. Now, she has launched a Tolkien-inspired […]
