Down The Rabbit Hole - a review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2 Comments Subscriber contentBy David Larsen in Film
Issue Listener Plus 13th Dec 2012
Is this train wreck really the work of the team that made The Lord of the Rings?
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Review of reviews ... The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
1 CommentsBy Toby Manhire in The Internaut
Issue Listener Plus 10th Dec 2012
The embargo is over, the reviews are in. Now updated with verdicts from UK papers.
He looked at what he'd written and thought, “Ah, I must find out what a hobbit is”
By Marion McLeod in From Our Archive
Issue Listener Plus 2475 8th Dec 2012
From the Listener archive: how Tolkien began with a blank sheet, and worked backwards.
When Bilbo came to town
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Television
Issue 3788 6th Dec 2012
One-hundred-per-cent-bonkers media antics greeted The Hobbit's premiere.
The real NZ "has become indistinguishable from parody"
1 CommentsBy Toby Manhire in The Internaut
Issue Listener Plus 29th Nov 2012
Hobbit hoopla confirms NZ "exactly how it was portrayed on Flight of the Conchords", writes New York based film blogger.
The Labour Party in Middle-earth
By Toby Manhire in The Internaut
Issue Listener Plus 28th Nov 2012
Steven Joyce gives a Hobbit-like rendition of the NZ opposition’s leadership woes.
Editorial: One Plan to rule them all
2 Comments Subscriber contentin Editorial
Issue 3786 26th Nov 2012
Urgent steps are needed to protect our waterways.
John Key and his Hobbit sword make the New York Times front page
1 CommentsBy Toby Manhire in The Internaut
Issue Listener Plus 25th Nov 2012
Prominent spot for report that considers what New Zealand gains - and loses - from the Peter Jackson empire.
100% Middle-earth New Zealand - the proof
By Toby Manhire in The Internaut
Issue Listener Plus 20th Nov 2012
Mount Ruapehu is on heightened eruption alert. And here's how it's playing overseas.
A Hobbit cameo for Stephen Colbert
By Toby Manhire in The Internaut
Issue Listener Plus 21st Oct 2012
The Comedy Central star and Tolkien obsessive said to have shot scenes on New Zealand visit.