Lord Of The Rings

The Lord of the Rings producer Barrie Osborne is warning a rewrite of the so-called Hobbit Law could mean big budget films due to be made in New Zealand will end up overseas. Mr Osborne is part of an… Audio

He's helped bring $500 million worth of films to this country, and counting, and for his services to the film industry, producer Barrie Osborne is now an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

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The variety of forms of fan mania that have evolved in response to Peter Jackson's films of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit - with A.Prof Lorna Piatti-Farnell from the Popular Culture Research Centre… Audio

The correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien and British woman Mary Fairburn, which has been unearthed by Dr Paul Tankard from University of Otago's Department of English, regarding Tolkien's fondness… Audio

New Zealand's expert in all things Middle Earth, Ian Brodie, has written and illustrated The Hobbit location guidebook, which includes the Pelorus River site in Marlborough and several sites in the… Audio

When Royd Tolkien was nine years old, he started reading a book that sat in the bookshelf at his family farm in Wales. That book was 'The Hobbit' and the boy is the great-grandson of its author JRR… Audio

Long before Peter Jackson created his vision of Middle Earth on film, artist Mary Fairburn created her own pen and ink illustrations of Middle Earth. JRR Tolkien, who had always been against an… Audio