When Variety asked director Peter Jackson why he chose to film The Lord of the Rings in his native New Zealand — then known only for its arthouse and indie films — rather than Hollywood ...

Set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ... jagged mountains, thundering waterfalls and pristine coastlines acting as magnificent backdrops.

“New Zealand had a film industry that had been around a long time,” Wilks continued. “But ‘Lord of the Rings’ supercharged what we could do on the world stage.” It was the country that ...

I visited the New Zealand set where scenes from "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" filmed. I hadn't seen the movies and wondered if I was wasting my time by visiting the Hobbiton Movie Set.

this large rural residence presides over dramatic views of multiple mountain ranges and the Shotover River—other-worldly New Zealand landscapes depicted in “The Lord of the Rings.” ...

Peter Jackson's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies put New Zealand on the map as a site ... but often allied with their local Orcs in the Misty Mountains. The Wargs in LotR hailed from Isengard.

The Lord of the Rings series ... include the Misty Mountains, the elf-capital of Lindon, and the island kingdom of Númenor. Season one finished filming in New Zealand last year.

The first of the new “Lord of the Rings” movies in the works at Warner ... alongside WETA and our film making family in New Zealand, it’s just all too delicious…” In addition to playing ...

And no upcoming series proves that point more than Amazon’s long-awaited, multi-season television adaptation of material surrounding J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” Since it was ...