The film crew’s moved down the hill temporarily to film indoors at Motueka, as the Nelson Mail reports.
Wow, if the Nelson Mail had a website we’d be overloading it right now. They say “Stars Elijah Wood, Sean Bean and Sean Astin were in the area filming the fellowship crossing middle-earth from the first part of the trilogy.”
Good scoops from them and you can access them at Scoop

From: Robert O

Auckland Metro’s “Felicity Ferret” column in the most recent issue had a short blurb about Geoff Murphy coming back from LA to work with Peter Jackson on FX and action stuff.

More info on Geoff Murphy can be found here: More]

Ringer Spy Orion sends in the word on a NZ website (www.harps.co.nz). The site mentions some harps that happen to be featured in a certain big budget trilogy we all know!

Tara Leprechaun is a 31 to 36 string harp with a note range of A to A. A traditionally styled harp with medium tension for folk harpists. [More]

From: Burma

Thought you might find this one neat… JRRT is the featured writer on Salon’s MP3 ‘spoken word’ feature today. [More]

We just received these images and I had to throw them up online just because they are pretty cool. Remember the image a week or so ago with a “Gandalf-like” figure impaled on a spiked wheel? Well, here’s the wheel…[more]

Xoanon and Tehanu will post more about these images later in the night.

An intrepid Ringer spy sent in these images tonight and I just wanted to get them online ASAP! Check it out…remember that infamous ‘Gandalf Death’ image? Now look at the first image and see that wheel looks familiar?

Xoanon will have more details on these images later tonight..:) Or maybe Tehanu too!

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