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[Michael Regina]

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Hobbit in 5 – Dwarves and Bilbo Make First Press Appearance
On this episode of Hobbit in 5 The Dwarves and Bilbo make there first
press appearance since arriving in New Zealand a month ago. Also Sir
Christopher Lee receives a Bafta Award, location scouting, character
studies and much much more! Ok so maybe it ran a little long this week
but there was a lot to cover!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nePV2Gk8wTc

Watch Previous Episodes

Ep4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0w0C9RyLhA
Ep3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08gIT2gvXjk
Ep2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMj2jkYSa-w
Ep1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9_PBpkPvM

BTS Footage for LOTR: War in the North
Today Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Snowblind Studios
share a new behind the scenes video for the upcoming Action RPG The
Lord of the Rings: War in the North featuring insight on the story and
design process for the title. We invite you to learn about the team’s
inspiration and the methods employed by the passionate team at
Snowblind, as the newest chapter in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy comes to
life.
http://tinyurl.com/4tf5eot

LOTRO Video Contest: Vote Now!
The Lord of the Rings Online video contest is now open for voting!
Click here to view the two entries that were selected as finalists!
Watch each video, then come back here to vote! Tell your friends,
family and even that cave troll down the street to vote! Voting will
be open for 1 week.
http://tinyurl.com/4gfby36

Official Hobbit Casting Call For Elves
An official casting call for Elves in the upcoming Hobbit films has
been posted at TradeMe.co.nz. The production is looking for tall and
slender people to play Elven Horse Riders and Elven Extras. The age
and height requirements according to gender have been given as
follows:
    * Men aged 17 – 40 with a height of 6ft (183cm) and taller.
    * Women aged 17 – 40 with a height of 5ft 9 (175cm) and taller.
The venue for the casting call is the Te Whaea – National Dance and
Drama Centre, 11 Hutchinson Rd, Newtown, Wellington, and it’s to take
place on Saturday, 26th February 2011 from 9:30 am – 12:00 noon and
from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm.
http://tinyurl.com/4z2adds

Donato Giancola: Drawn to Middle-earth
Middle Earth: Visions of a Modern MythDonato Giancola’s artwork will
be familiar to many readers of TORn. His paintings have been used as
the covers for many books, including the Science Fiction Book Club’s
combined edition of The Lord of the Rings. Recently, he published a
volume which brings together many of his Middle Earth depictions. If
you haven’t yet seen Giancola’s gorgeous book Middle Earth: Visions of
a Modern Myth, then you’ve missed a treat. Crammed with beautiful
prints of his paintings and sketches inspired by Tolkien’s writing,
the book includes fascinating comments and up close images of details
from Giancola’s amazing pictures
http://tinyurl.com/4kh34x8

Sacred Mountains off limits to ‘Hobbit’ Production
The stark cone of Mt Ngauruhoe played a leading role in Peter
Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, featuring as a smouldering Mt
Doom. Now, only five weeks out from the scheduled start of filming for
The Hobbit prequel, local Maori are set to put their foot down and
refuse permission for the Oscar-winning director to use the central
North Island mountains again. The iwi considered them sacred. In The
Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins and his entourage journey through the Misty
Mountains on their way to confront the dragon Smaug at the Lonely
Mountain.
http://tinyurl.com/4r6etdr

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