Happy Birthday to Dean O’Gorman!
Happy Birthday to Kiwi actor Dean O’Gorman, who is 37 today! Dean was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1976 in a family of Irish descent. His father, Lance, is a New Zealand professional landscape […]
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An Interview with Dwarves
The Sydney Morning Herald visited the set of The Hobbit last year to interview the dwarves. The interviews turned out to be ‘amusing, informative, long (very long) and occasionally anarchic.’ And by the end, what […]
Happy Birthday to Jed Brophy!
Happy birthday to Kiwi actor and director, Jed Brophy, who has turned 50! You know Jed not only as Nori the dwarf from The Hobbit trilogy, but as an orc, one of the Nazgûl, a man […]
Dwarf Talk
A lot has been said about the camaraderie between the actors playing the dwarves in The Hobbit so, when Dark Horizons visited the set last year, they took the opportunity to ask Graham McTavish (Dwalin), Jed […]
Spotlight Interviews Aidan Turner, Jed Brophy and Adam Brown
Spotlight Report interviewed Aidan Turner (Kili), Jed Brophy (Nori) and Adam Brown (Ori) at Supanova Sydney back in June 2013. Photo’s via Spotlight Report
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 […]
The Hobbit Panel At Sydney Supanova (vid)
It was Supanova Expo in Sydney last weekend and Jed Brophy (Nori), Adam Brown (Ori) and Aidan Turner (Kili) were there to answer fans questions at The Hobbit panel. Here’s a vid of the panel […]
Exclusive News on Smaug’s Design and an Inside Look at Weta Cave’s 5th Anniversary Celebration
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 […]
