Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr hunt for Hobbit hole

August 25, 2011
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Leaving Flynn, their baby son, tucked up at home, Orlando Bloom and wife, Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr, braved the New Zealand chill to view a four-bedroom open plan waterfront home featuring a gym, home cinema, spa, swimming pool, home cinema, wine cellar and spectacular views across Karaka Bay. Orlando, playing Legolas, has already been [...]

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Star of Lost joins The Hobbit Cast

August 23, 2011
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Lost star Evangeline Lilly is the latest celebrity to join the cast of The Hobbit. The 31-year-old actress, who played Kate Austen in Lost, was in New Zealand to play Woodland Elf, Tauriel, as Peter Jackson announced on his Facebook page. He said, “Her name means ‘daughter of Mirkwood’ and, beyond that, we must leave [...]

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Orlando Bloom thrills Wellington shoppers

August 6, 2011
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Hollywood star Orlando Bloom has been seen out and about in Wellington, joining a growing number of Hobbit actors arriving in the city as production resumes after a three-month hiatus. Wellingtonians Miranda Webster, Aggie Galloway, Kayla Carruthers, Sam Walton and Hannah Robson met Bloom yesterday when they saw him shopping in the central city. Ms [...]

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Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit

July 24, 2011
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Luke Evans Talks Bard The Bowman Source: Empire

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THE HOBBIT, Production Video #3

July 21, 2011
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First Look at Balin and Dwalin in The Hobbit

July 15, 2011
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Dwarf Lords in their own right, Balin and Dwalin are close relatives of Thorin. Beyond this, these brothers are two of his most loyal and trusted friends. An old warrior, Balin has lived through hard times and fought many battles, yet he harbors doubts about the wisdom of the Quest to retake the Lonely Mountain. [...]

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New Hobbit Production Video

July 9, 2011
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Source: Facebook

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First Look at Dori, Nori and Ori in The Hobbit

July 7, 2011
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New Line Cinema and MGM have released the first photo of Jed Brophy as Nori, Adam Brown as Ori and Mark Hadlow as Dori in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

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Richard Armitage talks about his role as a dwarf

July 6, 2011
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Richard Armitage has spoken with Total Film about his role in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: We recently sat down with the British actor to talk about his role as dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the two-part Tolkien epic, and he told us: “There’s going to be quite a lot more humour. “The book is so focused [...]

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World’s First Hobbit Movie Cover

June 27, 2011
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Empire, the first magazine in the world to put The Hobbit on its cover. Over ten years ago, catching a whiff something really big was going down in New Zealand, Empire decided to feature the next film from promising Kiwi director Peter Jackson on its cover. After all, he just happened to be making The [...]

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