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Hobbit House for rent!
Looking for a holiday rental with a difference? Steve and Christine Michaels spent £250,000 building a Hobbit House in Montana and you can rent it for £149 per night. You can read the full story and see pictures of the house here. There are more photos of the house on the Hobbit House Facebook page…
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Stephen Fry sworn to secrecy!
Stephen Fry has arrived in New Zealand to start filming the in his role as the Master of Lake Town. He has been tweeting about his experiences but reveals that he is “sworn to secrecy” about the “marvelous wardrobe and makeup fittings”. You can read the full story here.
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Elijah Wood on The Hobbit
Elijah Wood revealed to Access Hollywood that he is looking forward to traveling back to Middle Earth and strapping on his Hobbit feet!. He is due to travel New Zealand for filming in October of this year.
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Stephen Fry on The Hobbit
In this interview on Radio 5, Stephen Fry talks about his forthcoming role in The Hobbit and reveals that as far as he know his role as the Mayor of Laketown will not involve him in putting hair on his feet!
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News from Gandalf
Sir Ian McKellen has updated his official website with news about Martin Freeman, Hugo Weaving, Figwit and Radagast. There’s also a picture of Gandalf wearing his 3D specs which you can view here.
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Sylvester McCoy on losing Bilbo but gaining Radgast
In this article at Den of Geek Sylvester McCoy talks about how he just lost out to Ian Holm for the part of Bilbo Baggins in the LotR movies and about his role as Radagast The Brown in the forthcoming movies of The Hobbit.
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Change of Name for Camp Rivendell
Since 2004 Bragg Creek Community Association has operated a day camp in Redwood Meadows. At Camp Rivendell the children were organized into age groups of hobbits, elves and dwarfs. However, after receiving a letter from solicitors acting for the estate of JRR Tolkien, they have had to change their name — the alternative was facing…
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Exploring The Hobbit
Dr Cory Olsen (The Tolkien Professor) has announced that his new book, Exploring The Hobbit, a companion to The Hobbit, will be published in September 2012 on the 75th anniversary of the publication of the original book. You can read the full story here.
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Elijah Wood on The Hobbit
In this interview at ComingSoon.net Elijah Wood reveals that he has yet to see the script for The Hobbit movies but he is looking forward to returning to New Zealand around November or December of this year. His response to whether he’ll get a “hobbit” tattoo in addition to his LotR one was; “Yeah, right…
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High Speed Hobbit
Peter Jackson will be shooting The Hobbit at 47.96 frames per second. What does this mean?, well it’s a higher rate than is normally used and James Cameron (director of Avatar) has described the effect as follows; “If watching a 3D movie is like looking through a window, then [with this] we’ve taken the glass…
