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 ...

The Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed in New Zealand. This served as the backdrop ... with Mount Ngauruhoe serving as Mount Doom. This mountain is an actual volcano, but the last time it ...

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 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 ...

The Lord of the Rings television series ... will carry viewers from the Misty Mountains to the island of Númenor and beyond, exploring settings old and new to fans of the films.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's upcoming production of The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale will transfer this fall to The Civic Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand, beginning November 5.