New Zealanders are a proud bunch. We are such a small country that when something big happens, the whole country gets behind it. We get excited when we are mentioned on American TV, when we beat another team in sport, or when one of us wins something huge!
So of course we happily claim the Lord of The Rings movies as our own cinematic babies. They were filmed here, the director is one of us. Everybody associates LOTRs with New Zealand, and we love it!
So when The Hobbit rolled around... we were all too happy to pull out all the stops! The first hobbit film had its world premiere in Wellington the other day and boy was it a doozy! I unfortunately wasn't able to attend, but it looked like one hell of a night. Check out all the Hobbit-y goodness!
These are the filming locations around New Zealand, for the last 3 years, I lived 30 minutes away from Hobbiton and The Shire! How cool is that?!
The genius director, Sir Peter Jackson, strolling out of the hobbit-hole!
Boy do I wish I was there holding my own sign!
600 metres of red carpet, and thousands of fans!
Have you seen The Lord of the Rings? Do you associate it with New Zealand?
I cannot wait to see The Hobbit on December 13th!!
It's going to be quite a journey!
4 comments:
I can't wait for The Hobbit! I really need to finish the book before the movie. I tried reading it like ten years ago(omg...ten years...) but stopped 3/4 through. This summer I started reading it again and stopped just past half way. Don't know what's wrong with me, but I just can't seem to finish it even though it's really good!
Awesome!!
Well here in Canada, we have a fascination with New Zealand. A lot of people I know who went far to travel, have gone to New Zealand. I would LOVE to visit, especially after seeing those movies.
My husband Sean spent a whole year traveling and working in New Zealand and his photos are beautiful.
I also wish I could hold the Hobbit Fansign. hi jsut followed you hope you follow back. Nice post by the way.
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i am so excited for the hobbit- pretty amazing that you lived near the set!! xo annalizbeth
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