Queenstown NZ Celebration of Tolkien...

A Letter to the Queenstown Press 28th December 2012

My recent submission nomination to the New Zealand Geographic Board to legitimately name a Mountain peak between Glenorchy and Milford Sound after Literary Giant JRR Tolkien has highlighted that our local Tourism Industry has no sense of Fun when it comes to Children, If I where still in Queenstown I would be pushing for a Costume Party up on the Deer Park Heights (A famous Lord of the Rings Location) every year for the works that have inspired Children and the Young at Heart for the last half Century. Maybe bring in the local theatre community for some help. 

After all  if Queenstown isn't a Place for the Young at Heart then where else is?

the Lost Tolkien Mountains

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'''Tolkien Mountain''', also once called Consolation Peak, is a nominated mountain for Gazetting by the [[New Zealand Geographic Board]]'s . It is located near the heart of the Earl Mountains of [[Fiordland]] and close to Peter Jackson’s [[Isengard]], it is approximately 1757m high. The New Zealand Geological Record shows that the Land Formation {{Citation needed|date= December 2012}} Tolkien Mountain sits on is named after the City of Gondor. see [[Middle-earth]] [[legendarium]].

The mountain represents the startpoint of a quest to restore lost placenames which are recounted in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]Trilogy''. The Mountain is also the site where Geologist John Williams was when JRR Tolkien Died in 1973 and he Envisaged Tolkien’s Names on the as yet unnamed Mountain Peaks to the South West.

==The Lost Tolkien Mountains==
[[File:Mt.Tolkien Lake Gunn NZ.jpg|thumb|250px|Tolkien Mountain as depicted in ''The Southland Times'' Newspaper.]]
When Geologist John Williams began searching [[Fiordland]] during the mid [[20th Century]] for a Geo-Technical Data, his imagination was immediately drawn to Mistake Creek, and especially to [[Aragorn]] Peak at it’s head, whose form he believed was like a place out of Tolkien’s Fiction. He subsequently established his campsite based beneath Mount [[Caradhras]] aka Triangle Peak and "used this base to survey what welled there from the heart of the Earth in his exploring and prospecting". {{Citation needed|date= December 2012}} 
Other peaks where John Williams found of “Tolkien like” in form that he recorded where [[Sauron]] aka Disappearing Peak (North) and Mount [[Gondor]] aka Consolation Peak as well as [[Rivendell]] Pass or Gap. aka U - Pass.
Several of these names where used on pre Metric Topographic Maps but where later removed, lost to public knowledge until the Filming of the [[Fellowship of the Ring]] by [[Peter Jackson]] in the Area in 2000.


==References==
The New Zealand Herald.2012.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10851240

The Southland Times 1st/12/2012.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8042035/LOTR-names-for-Fiordland-rejected-in-1973]
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|author=Ian Brodie |year= 2003 |title=The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook | publisher= Harper Collins |isbn= 1-86950-491-7}}
*{{cite book|author=John Hall-Jones |year= 2003 |title=Fiordland Place-Names  | publisher= Craig Printing company Ltd |isbn= 0-473-09709-5}}


[[Category:Middle-earth mountains]]

NZ's Real - 100% Pure Middle Earth

 The Mountain picked to bear the name of the Great "JRR"
was was not picked at random.  it's location between the lost Tolkien Mountains in the Earl Mountain Range to the West and the film location of Isengard to the East is well chosen.

Better still it is on New Zealand's Premier Scenic Highway and can be ascended by an averagely fit person.

It also consists of a previously named peak "Consolation Peak" so it is not adding a name to the unspoiled Wilderness.

This is Ironic as the Tolkien Mountain, if adopted it will be a consolation to the whole lost Tolkien Mountain story.

The clincher though has to be that the Mountain sits on what the Official Geology Maps call "the Gondorian Formation" named after a City State from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
so inside the Mountain is in-fact pure Tolkien!

http://www.newzealand.com/int/feature/sir-peter-jackson/

Lost Tolkien Mountains - Sunday Star Times

The Sunday Star Times article by Helen Bain that aborted the bid to restore John Williams efforts.

https://maps.google.co.nz/maps/ms?msid=216226257512186109466.0004db54c3f6a75811e92&msa=0&ll=-44.88908,167.990227&spn=0.079538,0.125141

JRR Tolkien Mountain - Fiordland Advocate

Here is last week article on Tolkien's Mountain... the First VIP Visitor
Published 6th Dec 2012

Last Battle for Tolkien's Middle Earth

The Story of Mount Tolkien or Tolkien Mountain as some call it has been the latest chapter of what was once called "the Last Battle of Middle Earth" by some fanciful journalists, and had started the year of JRR Tolkien's Death in 1973.

This Blog is an attempt to put the saga into perspective and context as a to why the Mountain Formerly Named Consolation Peak has been picked to be New Zealand's Eternal Monument to JRR Tolkein, A great author to whom New Zealand owes an honor for his contribution to New Zealand's artfull film rendition of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings in which Mountains such as this one became Wild Scenery to portray the fictional land called Middle Earth.