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Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" movies will be made in New Zealand after the government struck a deal with Hollywood studio Warner Bros., Prime Minister John Key said."I am delighted we have achieved this result," Key told reporters. "Making the movies here will not only safeguard work for thousands of New Zealanders, but will also allow us to follow the success of 'The Lord of the Rings'."

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The long-awaited movies based on JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit" were given the green light Saturday but no location was named amid an ongoing union threat to boycott the production in New Zealand.The announcement by New Line Cinema and its parent company Warner Brothers confirmed Peter Jackson, who masterminded the multi-award-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, as the director and said filming will begin next February.

So my only gripe with this new trailer for LEGO Lord of the Rings??is that I?m starting to get a little tired of the Peter /Warner Bros. version of these stories. They?re quickly becoming the only way we experience Tolkien?s work. This is a shame. The LEGO game is a direct spin-0ff of the movies, ...

In "The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," and "The Silmarillion," J.R.R. Tolkien conjured an entire universe called Middle Earth in extreme detail. If he created a real, spoken language for the Elves, complete with grammar and phonology, you better believe he added a few governing laws.

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A muted version of a winter storm that has killed more than a dozen people across the eastern half of the country plodded across the Northeast on Thursday, trapping airliners in snow or mud and frustrating travelers still trying to return home after Christmas.