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Amazon to unveil its $1bn bet with 'Lord of the Rings' prequel launch
AFP, Published on 01/09/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Stanley Kubrick once famously said that J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy of novels was unfilmable.
Fans return as Comic-Con awaits new 'Thrones' and 'Rings' shows
AFP, Published on 21/07/2022
» SAN DIEGO: Tens of thousands of cosplaying fans will converge on San Diego Thursday for the first full-scale Comic-Con in three years, with new "Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones" TV series set to be unveiled at the world's most famous pop culture gathering.
'Thrones' and 'Rings' fans ready for battle as Comic-Con returns
AFP, Published on 19/07/2022
» SAN DIEGO: Comic-Con finally returns to San Diego this week, where new "Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones" TV series will compete before tens of thousands of cosplaying geeks and nerds at the world's most famous pop culture gathering.
'Lord of the Rings' show to start filming in New Zealand
AFP, Published on 18/09/2019
» WELLINGTON: US-based streaming giant Amazon announced Wednesday its big-budget "Lord of the Rings" series will within months start filming in New Zealand, home to Peter Jackson's movies of the fantasy epic.
Tourism is now NZ's top export earner
Business, Published on 27/10/2016
» WELLINGTON: In New Zealand there are twice as many cows as people, but it's the hobbits that are really making hay.
Tourism overtakes dairy as New Zealand's top overseas earner
Published on 26/10/2016
» WELLINGTON - In New Zealand there are twice as many cows as people, but it's the hobbits that are really making hay.
Journey to Middle Earth
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/06/2016
» It's the Earth not the Moon, I think. We are walking the path that skirts the pool of geothermal geysers at the Whakarewarewa site in the town of Rotorua, New Zealand. The moon-grey rocks are smothered in mud and pungent smoke, with sporadic hissing that suggests the chemical fury underneath. The scene is alien. The air is calm, a kind of nervous calm because we know there will be an outburst. Once every 40 minutes or so, the subterranean pressure pushes the heated, underground water through the crack and shoots up a jet of spray up to 30m, drawing cheers from fortunate visitors who happen to be present at the moment of thermal activity.
Likely ancestor of mystery 'hobbit' found
AFP, Published on 09/06/2016
» PARIS - Half-sized humans who lived 700,000 years ago were almost certainly the ancestors of enigmatic "hobbits" whose fossils were found on the same Indonesian isle in 2013, scientists stunned by their own discovery reported Wednesday.
Indonesia's 'hobbits' disappeared earlier than thought: study
AFP, Published on 31/03/2016
» PARIS - A group of extinct human relatives dubbed "hobbits", which left tantalising traces of their existence in an Indonesian cave, disappeared much longer ago than previously thought, archaeologists said on Wednesday.
Mystery 'hobbits' not humans like us: study
AFP, Published on 16/02/2016
» PARIS - Diminutive humans that died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were not Homo sapiens but a different species, according to a study published Monday that dives into a fierce anthropological debate.