All Shall Love Me and Despair

Some more info about the Extended Edition:

From the official Hobbit Facebook Page: A clip from the added footage.

Official ‘Hobbit’ Extended Edition packaging images

Pre-order The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition Gift Set and More!

An in-depth first look at the AUJ EE contents


And in other news:

Exclusive video with Richard Taylor, Daniel Falconer and Peter Lyon of Weta Workshop

SD calendar reveals a new image of Beorn? In human form?

Desolation of Smaug world premiere set for Los Angeles

Sad news – Visual Effects Producer Eileen Moran dies in New Zealand I remember her from the LotR EE Extras. So sad. :(

OFFICIAL: Six incredible video clips from The Hobbit

Hobbit TV spot 10 officially up

Richard Armitage talks to TheOneRing.net

Entertainment Weekly offers a ‘first look’ at the next Hobbit movie

Say it right: Middle-earth language usage

Top photos of NZ ‘Hobbit’ press conference

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 13-minute TV special!

Exclusive Pics of ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art and Design’ and a Giveaway!

Richard Taylor talks about Weta’s work

TV spot for The Hobbit : ‘don’t be afraid’

Hobbit TV Spot #11 now available

Clips from Colbert “Hobbit Week”

Congratulations to Sir Richard Taylor!!!

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7355018/another-knighthood-for-weta-stable/

Another knighthood for Weta stable

Five Oscars and four Baftas are recognition for a body of work in the film industry, but a knighthood for Weta Workshop's Richard Taylor is reward beyond the realm of his imagination.

Sir Richard, 45, who has won the movie awards for his work with Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, has been knighted in this year's Queen's Birthday honours list.

It comes after he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004, and was Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and 2007, among other honours.

Details and Richard's reaction at the link. I am very chuffed for him! :D



http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/06/06/37064-a-message-from-guillermo/

A Message from Guillermo

June 6th, 2010 by Altaira | Discuss

As Guillermo Del Toro promised on the day the story broke here at TheOneRing.net of his departure from The Hobbit, he stopped by our message boards today with a few more comment for the fans:

Read his message at the link.

So there’s the second link dump - again loosely LotR related.

April 2, 2009

Viggo Mortensen: first Good - and then goodbye?

Viggo Mortensen hasn’t accepted a movie role for a year, and may never make one again. Why, asks our correspondent



Business leaders honour Weta's Taylor

Published: 10:17AM Thursday April 02, 2009

Source: ONE News

The force behind Wellington's Weta Workshop, Richard Taylor, has won the supreme award at the World Class New Zealand awards.

And it’s one he designed himself! :D



Del Toro was right choice for The Hobbit, says Raimi

By David Bentley on Mar 25, 09 06:47 PM

SAM RAIMI, who was on the shortlist of directors for the big-screen remake of The Hobbit, says Guillermo del Toro was a brilliant choice to make the film.



Obviously the second film will now not cover the time between the end of The Hobbit and the beginning of Fellowship of the Rings, but if you’re interested in that time period, there’s fan film The Hunt for Gollum which will be released as a streaming film on Dailymotion.com on 3rd May. You can also find the trailers and more information at http://thehuntforgollum.com

That’s it for this round - I’d have liked to add a few more, but this already took me about an hour because my laptop isn’t so much running as CRAWLING!!! *sigh*

A film about Glastonbury!

Found it by way of the website for the in-production documentary Reclaiming the Blade - narrated by John Rhys-Davies, and featuring John Howe, Bob Anderson, Richard Taylor and probably others involved in LotR! :D