{"id":30980,"date":"2009-01-14T22:19:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T03:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30980"},"modified":"2009-01-14T22:19:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T03:19:34","slug":"previously-unseen-edoras-construction-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/01\/14\/30980-previously-unseen-edoras-construction-pics\/","title":{"rendered":"Previously Unseen Edoras Construction Pics!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Andrew Rutherford<\/strong> writes: Here’s some photos that you might not have seen before, and recently uploaded to our website<\/a>. They show the construction of the Edoras set. They were not taken by us. From the site<\/em>: When Peter Jackson’s Three Foot Six company first arrived in Queenstown in November 1999, I decided to visit their production office which was operating out of the old Remarkables Hotel. There I had the good luck to meet unit production manager Nick Korda. I told him that with the type of aeroplanes we operated I thought we could be of service. My reasons for approaching the company were, firstly, I was a fan of J. R. R.Tolkien and loved the book, so I wanted to be involved. I believed that with all the locations around the country there would be a place for small aeroplanes in ferrying people, equipment, film and so on around them. Nick seemed a little doubtful at first until I mentioned that we could fly point to point at half the price of a helicopter, and do it faster. As we were flying small aircraft, we were not restricted to airports and could land anywhere – it could even be on the side of a hill, provided the area chosen was reasonably smooth and at least 400 metres long. More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Rutherford writes: Here’s some photos that you might not have seen before, and recently uploaded to our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,5,99,30,104],"tags":[658],"class_list":["post-30980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-locations","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr-production","category-ttt-movie","category-production-weta-workshop","tag-edoras-set"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t