Dec 17, 2012 | Forbes
As Boromir (Sean Bean) erroneously mentioned in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, “One does not simply walk into Mordor.” He was not only proven wrong by Frodo and Sam (In your face, man. In. Your. Face), but also he created an Internet meme that was...
Dec 14, 2012 | Forbes
Making The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was an expensive undertaking, what paying actors, building sets, and transporting the crew there and back again. According to Wikipedia, the first film in the future trilogy had a budget of $150 million. That’s a lot of cash....
Dec 14, 2012 | Forbes
Ever since 2001, many of us have come to recognize New Zealand as “the place where Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, was filmed.” Now even more people know it as “the place where I took my vacation.” According to the general manager of Western long haul markets for...
Dec 13, 2012 | Forbes
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in a series of three films by director Peter Jackson, is almost three hours long. I know this, because when the credits rolled, I noticed my bladder was screaming. But I didn’t realize it before then, because for two hours...
Dec 11, 2012 | Forbes
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms…. it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” But all the comfort of Bilbo’s home, Bag End, comes at a price (if Middle Earth were real, that is). And...
