New Zealand hasn't cornered the market when it comes to real-life Hobbit villages. Moscow's Zaraiskiy district has reportedly posted a proposal on its government website for several projects to lure ...

Peter Jackson’s hometown of Wellington, New Zealand will host the world première of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," in Nov. 2012, the director said on location at Hobbiton, Friday. By Pip Bulbeck ...

Filmmaker Farah Khan visited New Zealand’s iconic The Hobbit shooting location, Hobbiton, sharing photos from her trip. The ...

As this year marks the 60 th anniversary of the publication by J.R.R. Tolkien of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, another of his Middle Earth based works, The Hobbit, is getting all of the attention. On ...

Air New Zealand hopes to get some tail winds from the next installment of “The Hobbit.” In a not-so-subtle marketing campaign tied to the movie, the self-described “airline of Middle-earth,” has ...

As is pretty much standard practice for movies filming anywhere but LA these days (and hardly anyone shoots movies in LA anymore), the New Zealand government hooked up Warner Bros and the producers of ...

In this photo taken Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, released by Air New Zealand, an image of the dragon Smaug from Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy is shown on the side of an Air New Zealand plane in Auckland, ...

Following in the footsteps of dwarves, elves, Hobbits et al in the Tongariro region. The Weta Cave in Miramar. Queenstown-based Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters can give you a birds-eye view of ...

Air New Zealand has released a "Hobbit"-themed in-flight safety video that is anything but boring. Entitled “The Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made," the four-minute clip begins with two “Hobbit” ...