All Shall Love Me and Despair

The official The Hobbit Facebook Page will be hosting a live stream of the world premiere, Tuesday night US times/Wednesday morning European times! Check out the details here. TORn will also be live streaming, check out their post here (also posted in yesterday's Hobbit update on here). They also have a link to a time clock that allows you to convert the times to your local time, to ensure you won't miss it unless you have to work, of course...

PJ, Elijah and others were also present at the TheOneRing.net/Red Carpet Tours premiere party in Wellington yesterday! Some pics are up on the TORn and Weta Workshop Facebook Pages.

OMG IS IT REALLY PREMIERE TIME?!

Before I need to drag myself away from LJ etc. and get productive, here's the second Hobbit links post, as promised:

TheOneRing.net, ‘Hobbit’ stuff at Comic-Con: Full details! - and in latest ComicCon rumours, More evidence for Freeman and Armitage at Comic-Con plus video of the ‘Hobbit’ cast on stage — together I wonder if Elijah will be there, and if so, if he'll join them on stage, even if only briefly? :)


First Hobbit DVD set for mid-2013 release


Hobbit trailer to show in US theatres with Brave. But which trailer? - added this one just for completion's sake. The current status is: Confirmation: ‘Hobbit’ trailer #2 not new material and What’s different in Hobbit trailer #2? - One more reason to go see Brave!


Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop announces The Fellowship of the Ring Diorama Set 1 Oh, to have spending money #5657...


Join TheOneRing.net in Wellington for ‘Hobbit’ world premiere event, further adventures in New Zealand


There will be one more post after this one (hopefully later today), where the focus of several articles is on Billy Connolly's recent hints about Dain Ironfoot.

Red Carpet Tours adapted their 12-day LotR tour schedule somewhat. They dropped Christchurch and Te Anau (*sniff*), but added Kaikoura! And there's a stop at Aratiatia Rapids now, where there's been some (test?) filming for a scene from The Hobbit. Oh and no morning with Daniel Reeve anymore - he'll be busy working for The Hobbit. I'm sure there are other small changes, but that's what jumped out to me when I skimmed it.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/4289149/New-Hobbiton-set-there-to-stay

New Hobbiton set there to stay

CHRIS GARDNER - Waikato Times
Last updated 05:00 30/10/2010

The new Hobbiton movie set will become forever enshrined in the Matatmata landscape when the film crews leave, with permanent materials being used for a "bigger and better" version of the Middle Earth village than seen in The Lord of the Rings.

Brett Hodge, owner of Matamata Post and Rails, which has supplied the timber for The Hobbit duology since construction began in February, told the Waikato Times that Sir Peter Jackson's company Three Foot Six was building the home of the Hobbits to last. [...]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the article mentions Vic from Red Carpet Tours! :D


Also:

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/10/29/39944-new-linewbmgm-hobbit-statement/

New Line/WB/MGM Hobbit Statement

October 29th, 2010 by xoanon 0 Comments and 1 Reaction

New Line, Warner Bros and MGM are pleased to have concluded successful discussions with the New Zealand government this past week. We’d like to thank Prime Minister Key, his Cabinet and the other dedicated New Zealand officials for their support and cooperation, which helped assuage our concerns and enabled us to keep The Hobbit in its proper home of New Zealand.

We’d also like to express very special appreciation to Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and the people of New Zealand for their tireless support of The Hobbit and their commitment to maintain and grow their vibrant film industry. Filming is scheduled to begin in February 2011 and we look forward to returning to Middle-earth.


http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/10/29/39930-gdt-has-incredible-heartache-over-the-hobbit/

GDT Has “Incredible Heartache” Over The Hobbit

October 29th, 2010 by Earl | Source: ContactMusic | Discuss | 0 Comments and 0 Reactions

It’s been five months since GDT departed The Hobbit, but now that the movie has finally been greenlit and is on schedule for a February 2011 shoot, there’s little doubt he still feels the loss of what might have been. [...]

Hobbiton Construction Photos!

March 26th, 2010 by Calisuri | Source: Red Carpet Tours | Discuss

The great folks from Red Carpet Tours (redcarpet-tours.com) have sent along this report and imagery from the Hobbiton set near Matamata, New Zealand


See them at the link above. Wheee! Go Vic and Raewyn!

Born of Hope – and a lot of charity

Will A Wellywood Sign Come to Be?

More Archived YouTube Videos - featuring Jed Brophy, Ian Brodie and Bret McKenzie.

Last but not least: More Hobbiton Set Pics WARNING: I don't know what possessed xoanon to just dump the full sized pictures (2848px width), scaled to thumbnail size, onto the page, instead of using properly resized thumbnails and putting the full sized photos in their Scrapbook! With 27 pictures on the page, this makes it EXTREMELY SLOW to load, so if you have a slow connection and an old computer, I warn you not to go there unless you don't need to do anything else on your computer in the next half hour or so. Even with a DSL connection it may well be slow to load (as it was for me), so better not run too many other programs at the same time.

Pics at the link, obviously. :)

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/02/01/35127-new-hobbiton-pics-and-a-report/

New Hobbiton Pics..and a Report!

February 1st, 2010 by xoanon

Glorfindel writes: We went to Hobbiton yesterday to check out what was going on but nothing much seems to have changed. Everything’s being irrigated therefore the hedgerows are a bit bushier and the apple trees are fruiting (although the pears aren’t doing so well). Gandalf’s cutting has been restored.

I did think some of the gardens would be planted up by now, with the supposed start date in a few months – it doesn’t cost much to sow a few seeds after all – but I guess they do have to wait for that elusive greenlight. Also they may leave filming Hobbiton towards the end of the shoot. Who knows? Anyway it was a beautiful day and although the Hobbit holes look somewhat dejected it is a lovely spot and we did feel the first tinglings of excitement!

but I only wish! :/

Work is mostly of the routine/boring kind, and not busy enough to help me overcome my inertia caused by bad sleep and neck/back related problems. Hopefully my new mattress really will arrive this week, because the old one is just plain and simple f-ing with my back/neck, as was very obvious from the first night I spent on it after my holidays. Also have a Wednesday appointment with my sister for a BowTech treatment, which of course I haven't had since mid July. Oh and PMSing doesn't help with all this, obviously, but it seems we're almost past the "Pre" phase now, at least.

Of course I still haven't done any Aotearoa '09 image sorting, apart from what I did on the trip. I also still need to figure out how I can better fit the clips from my video camera on only one or two DVDs - when I try to do it with the software that came with the camera, I can hardly fit a handful of clips on one DVD-R/+R even though there aren't that many long ones, so that's not practical at all!

The sliver of light on the horizon is my weekend trip to NYC - leaving directly from work on Friday 25th mid morning, and coming back again directly to work on Monday 28th. No big plans except visiting a friend and his daughter, and letting them show me around Queens. *counts the days*


Watched three films made in/about NZ and particularly the Maori over the weekend: River Queen, Whale Rider (again), and Once Were Warriors. All three are good in their own ways, and funny enough, all three feature yummy Maori actor Cliff Curtis in an important role. :) Of course a not so likeable one in the latter (OWW) - it's one of those films that is difficult to watch in places, but the performances were fantastic all around. It really deserves its good reputation! As does Whale Rider, of course, and I also liked River Queen a lot.

Oh well. Time to go back to work... until sometime later!

This week's LJ Spotlight features professional photographer and solo traveler Sarah Underwood, who is "living the dream as she explores the stunning landscape of New Zealand [and Australia] on a budget". Her diary of the trip is sarahdownundah. I haven't had the time yet to look at her entries in depth, but the photos I saw during my quick browse of a few of them certainly looked beautiful. :)

Will x-post this to aotearoa09