The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Movies, Art, Literature, Gaming Only yesterday, Peter Jackson released his newest Production Video Blog, and it has our hearts racing and yearning for New Zealand! Though Jackson points out that he can’t reveal the Laketown set until 2013, he […]
Sean Bean, who played Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, was on The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday, February, 25. He was there to promote his new film, Cleanskin, but he talked a lot […]
Bret McKenzie won Best Original Song at the Academy awards yesterday. His song ‘Man or Muppet’ from The Muppet movie won over Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett’s ‘Real in Rio’ from the animated feature Rio reports Stuff.NZ McKenzie […]
Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Andy Serkis and Bret McKenzie are just some of the actors from The Hobbit who have joined with others to make a crowd-created Shakespeare speech for the New Zealand International Arts […]
Come join Middle-earth Network as we take ‘A Long Expected Journey to New Zealand’! Arranged by author and photographer, Ian Brodie, our 14 day tour explores ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected […]
He has won more awards than you can count on your fingers and toes, including five Oscars, four BAFTAs, and three New Zealand Film Awards. In 2010, he was made a Knight Companion of The […]
The Nelson region of New Zealand was hit by terrible flooding last December, cutting short the filming of The Hobbit. The floods, the worst for 50 years, affected trading in what would usually be […]
Five years ago The Sisters of Mercy applied to have Our Lady Star of the Sea Chapel in Seatoun, New Zealand, removed from the list of heritage buildings so as it could be sold. It […]
Welly-moot is a group of Tolkien fans who meet in Wellington, New Zealand to discuss their love of his work. The group was started in 2011 by Middle-earth Network’s own Jack Machiela, but as of […]
While doing press for his upcoming sequel to “Ghost Rider,” Nicolas Cage participated in a webchat with Empire Magazine readers. Normally, this is not the sort of thing that would stir the Tolkien community or […]
