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Xoanon
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Jun 22 2009, 1:37am
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Sets for ‘The Hobbit’ Being (re?)built!
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Thanks to the folks at Red Carpet Tours
for this one: A spy has uncovered some exciting developments regarding
a film set for The Hobbit - but all he can say at the moment is that an
official announcement will be coming from Peter Jackson’s people later
this week. Stay tuned!
Michael Regina
Editor in Chief/Segment Producer
PH: 514.947.5221
http://www.TheOneRing.net
http://www.KongisKing.net
http://www.TheOneLion.net
http://www.gallifreyone.com
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overlithe64
Ossiriand
Jun 22 2009, 1:45am
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That Hobbiton would be number one on the list...I mean they have to get all that greenery re-grown...how long was preproduction for that set the first go round, my memory is getting hazy.
I am obsessed, but I am in excellent company.
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tennie75
Menegroth
Jun 22 2009, 2:06am
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yes yes yes!! spy reports coming I'm so jazzed!!! //
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dormouse
Gondolin
Jun 22 2009, 7:58am
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I think Hobbiton took about a year to eighteen months for everything to grow, which sounds about right. It's so exciting it's like being a kid again - have to smile at myself sometimes. Reading LotR and watching the films again (for the umptytumth time...) Would SO love to visit New Zealand...
(psst - I think I'm replying to the wrong post - this is first ever post here, please forgive  )
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Starling
Gondolin
Jun 22 2009, 8:16am
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Welcome aboard - what a great time to make your first post. 
If you view discussions in threaded mode, it makes it easier to reply to the right person. Have you checked out TORn 201? There are loads of helpful hints there.
Nice to meet you, dormouse.
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DiveTwin
Nargothrond
Jun 22 2009, 1:30pm
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Hearing spy reports is like walking out my door and not knowing where I'll be swept off to ..... and can't wait.
"Do not come between the Nazgul and his prey"
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marlonbrando76
Lindon
Jun 22 2009, 5:22pm
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i hope they start to build the white council to shot as soon as possible the Christopher Lee scenes!
i really hope they think about Sir Lee age, he must be in it like saruman
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Cad Monkey
Lindon
Jun 22 2009, 8:45pm
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The company that provides tours around the Hobbiton set at Matamata can be found at www.hobbitontours.com. I've been checking their website regularly for the last 6 months or so beacuse I would imagine that once the rebuild commences the tours will either cease altogether or be scaled back with reduced access. I'm sure that this information will need to be posted by them at some point.
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overlithe64
Ossiriand
Jun 22 2009, 9:17pm
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I'm surprised that They have not stopped already, what with how tight things were before. But with the 18 month preproduction time...after all its winter now...or late fall in NZ...they will need to be ready for the growing season....Gah, its so damned exciting to know its all in the works!!!
I am obsessed, but I am in excellent company.
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overlithe64
Ossiriand
Jun 22 2009, 9:18pm
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And so it begins...again.
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overlithe64
Ossiriand
Jun 22 2009, 9:30pm
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so nice to have stuff to look forward.....
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the road goes ever on and on....
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Cad Monkey
Lindon
Jun 23 2009, 12:29am
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It certainly is winter - the temperature here in Auckland this morning was 2 deg C! Still the advantage to that is I'm only 90 minutes drive from Hobbiton
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overlithe64
Ossiriand
Jun 23 2009, 1:01pm
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I mean I didn't know for sure if it was the dead of winter yet...But I do know Auckland is 90min from Matamata...had the wonderful opportunity to tour your lovely country...in 2003 I was there for the WP. so much fun,
...well except for the little mishap with the car somewhere between Matamata and our next stop...oops; head on collision with a car load of Maori. Totaled the rental but thankfully no injuries...And no we were not on the wrong side of the road...lol, well we were but we were passing, and a tour bus wouldn't let us back in....Put a dent in both the car and our plans.
I'm not sure where else in the world that the police would drive us to our next stop and give us a guided tour at the same time. Everyone was so nice...
hope you warm up a bit...meanwhile get a blanket and sit by the fire.
I am obsessed, but I am in excellent company.
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Artanis
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Jun 23 2009, 9:50pm
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Artanis
Listening: LOTR soundrack
Random Delights: TORN, Facebook (and LOTRo, hopefully, one day..please)
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Cad Monkey
Lindon
Jun 24 2009, 12:28am
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 Sorry to hear about the car accident - Sounds like you were lucky to walk away from that one. Mind you NZ roads are notoriously bad; too many 30kph corners after a 100kph straight. Glad it didn't spoil your trip here too much.
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overlithe64
Ossiriand
Jun 24 2009, 12:23pm
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yeah we lost a day of seeing the stinky sites around Rotorua; It really emphasized the difference between the US and NZ. There was a huge mix up with the new/ replacement rental it was delivered to the town near the accident where old car was taken, of course we had no way to get it. The garage owner sent his wife and daughter to pick us up and take us back to get the car. We were so thankful for them, amazing because here in my area...It would have been "yeah thats not MY problem." WE were so grateful for their assistance we stopped and saw them on our way back to Auckland. It was very funny because they presented us with a news paper with our pictures in it...They were excited that someone they'd helped out was interviewed for the WP...lol. Anyway I'll never forget their kindness, nor the experience of the Kiwi culture.
I am obsessed, but I am in excellent company.
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Jun 25 2009, 4:37pm
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the gardens, grasses, shrubs, etc a full year before they began filming!!! OMG!!!
"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West."
~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Jun 25 2009, 4:39pm
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*squeeeeeeeeee* Bless Red Carpet's Little Heart!
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OOMG~! This is FANTASTIC!!!! Oaky.. okay... we know it's been getting close to the time for stuff to start breaking *twitch* loose... but GEEZO PEEZO... THIS IS SO COOL!!!
*shiver*
omg...
Now... they'd better let me in there when I go in March!!! *spasm*
*twirls in chair*
OMG!
"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West."
~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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overlithe64
Ossiriand
Jun 25 2009, 7:10pm
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I hope you get in, when is the tentative date for the start of filming?
Perhaps you can wriggle your way in as an extra....
I am obsessed, but I am in excellent company.
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Timdalf
Ossiriand
Jun 28 2009, 5:01pm
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We here in NYC had a visit from GDT to push his new novel recently... while there I pressed into his hand a letter to PJ from me and few others. We requested since they will be rebuilding/replanting Hobbiton and Bag End, that they film an appendix to the LOTR Trilogy... the Scouring of the Shire. I doubt if it will have any impact whatsoever, but it was worth a try!! We argued that it would make a nice selling point for an anniversary reissue of the 3 films and was essential a la the book to show how the 4 hobbits mature and develop into heroes capable of rescuing their homes.
Timothy Fisher alias "Timdalf"
"... The Word of God Himself, He, indeed, assumed humanity that we might become as God..." St. Athanasius of Alexandria "On the Incarnation"
The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness. Richard Wagner's Letters
Saruman: Can we not have peace, you and I?
King Theoden: We shall have peace. (pause) When you answer for the burning of the Westfold. And the children that lie dead there. We shall have peace when the lives of the soldiers whose bodies were hewn even as they lay dead against the Hornburg are avenged. When you hang from a gibbet for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace. Tolkien - "The Return of the King"
Frodo: It is a pity Bilbo did not kill Gollum when he had the chance.
Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? (Frodo frowns.) Do not be so eager to deal out death in judgment, even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given us. There are other forces at work in the world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Tolkien - "The Fellowship of the Ring"
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