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Fly in LotR style with Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand have adorned the side of one of their Boeing 747-400’s with a LotR theme featuring the New Zealand landscape and the faces of Legolas and Aragorn. See pictures and read the full story at Scoop.
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Watch the RotK World Premiere via the Internet
For those of you not in Wellington, the event that is the world premiere of RotK will be streamed live via the internet. Check out the live countdown and site for the streaming at Wellington NZ.
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Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika / For Wellington – Photographs by Viggo Mortensen
To coincide with the opening of RotK in Wellington, Viggo Mortensen is exhibiting a collection of photographs he took while filming LotR. The Hirschfeld Gallery (part of the Wellington City Gallery) and the Massey University Art Gallery are exhibiting
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Gearing up for the World Premiere – Wellington gets ready
World premieres of box office smashes don’t occur very often in New Zealand, and the Wellington City Council (WCC) and the City are putting in a huge effort to have the place ship-shape for our day in the spotlight.
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Critics attack LotR exhibition
A New Zealand paper reports that some academics are critical of the London Science Museum for hosting the LotR exhibition, a commercial spinner, at the expense of more serious exhibits. Check out the original article from the Dominion Post
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Lord of the Rings Exhibition opens
The Lord of the Rings exhibition opened on Dec 19 2002, at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, Wellington, NZ. I checked it out recently and here’s what I thought…
