My friend Vic from Red Carpet Movietours left word at some of the big Auckland hotels about our trips to Hobbiton, Mordor etc. Two tourists who asked about day trips around Auckland thought that a tour of the Hobbiton location sounded interesting. They weren’t big Tolkien fans though they’d seen the movie once, but they loved their day out under the Party Tree. Seems that ‘doing LOTR things’ is becoming a normal part of tourism here.
Category: Old Special Reports
sethdove writes: Hi from Greece, the land of the FREE! I use the word “free” because when you buy a Greek magazine you get everything for free: videotapes, bags, umbrellas… even DVDs!!!
Well, National Geographic’s “Lord of the Rings” Beyond the Movie given away for free with the last issue of a magazine called “Hi-Tech”!!!
I bought it, costs only €7.30…
I also saw a poster at a video store that said: On the 6th of August all video stores across the country will open at midnight! The customers that’ll buy the DVD in the first minute, they’ll be handed something special”
I really don’t know what this means… but sounds cool, eh? I’ll let you know…
And here’s something that I don’t know its origin but it’s cool anyway!
Here’s a pic from a brown leather pouch with “The Lord of the Rings” written on it with golden letters, that I got from a guy that sells movie posters.
Thanks to RingerSpy Champion2K we bring you details on just what we can expect from Games Workshop in regards to the Two Towers. If you’re trying to stay spoiler free… I’d turn away now!
With this release we now have confirmation that Haldir will have a troop of elves at Helm’s Deep, the Warg Riders will be in the Two Towers, and a Sneak peak at the weaponary used by the Uruk-hai.
Don’t take my word for it, check it out for yourself!
Spoiler Warning
Christiane writes: I don’t know whether someone already sent you these scans, so just in case no one did I send them. They’re from the German sci-fi and fantasy magazine Space View. The article is in German too though I suppose I could translate it. There’s a map of NZ with the locations of the sets on it and a little guide to these places. Most of the pics aren’t new but I found the map really nice.
Royal Mail is to launch its first movie tie-up with a pounds 7m Christmas campaign based on one of this year’s biggest Hollywood releases, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
The company has signed an exclusive deal with the film’s backers, Entertainment Film Distributors and New Line Cinema, to offer prizes of up to pounds 1m when consumers buy books of 12 first-class Christmas stamps. Up to 14 million gamecards will be issued by 55,000 retail outlets, offering the public the chance to ‘Find the One Ring and win pounds 1m’.
The promotion, devised by Claydon Heeley Jones Mason, will be supported by an advertising campaign through Bates UK. Media planning and buying will be through Carat.
This year’s Christmas stamps, displaying a series of festive images, will go on sale on November 5, with the promotion running until December 21.
Royal Mail brand and communications director Paul Troy said the tie-up reflected its ‘appetite to work with partners on large-scale campaigns in the future’.
Naushad Writes: I found an article of a tourist guide to New Zealand in context of FotR. You and fellow ringers may enjoy the read.
