Tag: lord of the rings
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Watch the Music Video: Billy Boyd (aka Pippin) Sings ‘The Last Goodbye’ for ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’
Hear Billy Boyd, aka Pippin in the LOTR franchise, sing “The Last Goodbye.” It’ll play over the end credits of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.”
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Jane Rants: Orlando Bloom, Miranda Kerr Split After Six Years Together
Jane laments the breakup of Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr. The pair have split after six years together, which apparently is an eternity in Hollywood.
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Christopher Tolkien: No More Tolkien Movies, Including The Silmarillion
Could The Hobbit trilogy be the last of the films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s work? It’s looking that way at the moment, as Christopher Tolkien says no more films.
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Frugal Kiwi Visits the Hobbiton Set in New Zealand
Our favorite Frugal Kiwi, Melanie McMinn, recently visited Hobbiton, a picturesque farmland (and working sheep and beef farm) near Matamata in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Giant Gollum Comes to Wellington, New Zealand
Weta Workshop, Peter Jackson’s design company, has installed a suspended 42 foot long and 10 foot high Gollum sculpture in the main terminal at the Wellington, New Zealand airport. Frugal Kiwi’s Melanie McMinn brings us the video.
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Cate Blanchett Returns to Middle Earth for The Hobbit
Despite plenty of drama in the development and production of ‘The Hobbit’ – check out my story over at PopEater – the cast and crew continue to forge merrily ahead. The latest person returning to Middle Earth is Cate Blanchett, who played Galadriel in the previous films and whom Frodo encountered on his journey to…
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Download the Real Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings
We here at Film Gecko are lucky to have friends all over the world, including New Zealand, where the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy was filmed. And, hopefully, where ‘The Hobbit’ will be filmed, if MGM can ever sort itself out. Our friends over at Frugal Kiwi are offering a very cool photo freebie of…
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Is Gimli in The Hobbit? I Say Yes
A while back, I wrote a piece on whether John Rhys-Davies was planning to play Gimli in ‘The Hobbit,’ and also linked to it from my PopEater post on how things are going with ‘The Hobbit.’ Commenters noted that Gimli isn’t even in ‘The Hobbit,’ so this isn’t exactly news. Hayley, who blogs at Two…