From the New Zealand Tourism Board files - %100 Middle Earth Branding and Tolkien
http://www.newzealand.com/int/feature/sir-peter-jackson/
http://www.newzealand.com/int/feature/sir-peter-jackson/
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Mountain Scene NZ - Mt Tolkien Spoof
This just in, a cutting from Queenstown that has a "dig" at the International movie industry
Tourism NZ and Land Information NZ..
Tourism NZ and Land Information NZ..
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Hobbit Mountain - Death Reported
German Tolkien fan dies visiting 'Hobbit' mountain
Published: 27 Dec 12 14:54 CET the Local Germany's News in Enlglish
The 38-year-old Frank S. fell 200 metres to his death in Mount Aspiring National Park on the country's southern island, the Bild newspaper reported.
The Google-employed software developer from Munich had set off on the tour of New Zealand on November 29, and written about his twin passions of J.R.R. Tolkien and mountain climbing on his homepage.
Ascents with experienced mountain climbers were on offer for €2,500, but Frank S. reportedly attempted to conquer the park's Cascade Saddle route on his own.
A friend reported him missing on December 23, and his body was discovered by a rescue helicopter on Christmas Day. Rescue workers believe he slipped on snow on the mountain and fell to his death.
''This steep and challenging 'poled' route over the Cascade Saddle is an alpine environment which requires a high level of risk and in turn a high level of skill," Mike Johnston of Wanaka police station, in southwestern New Zealand commented. "This route should not be attempted unless key factors have been evaluated, such as, fitness, alpine experience, weather, and equipment. Falling in this slippery and steep terrain is unforgiving'.'
Police expressed their sympathy to the family and friends, who were receiving the news of the tourist's death at Christmas.
This story was not released in the New Zealand News
Friday, January 18, 2013
Alasandro Malaspina in NZ
Letter to the Southland Times January 13th 2013
The anti Tolkien Comments by Jack Murrell in your paper recently remind me of the bigotry surrounding John Hall Jones restoration of Spanish Place-names.
Everybody in authority here seemed to be against him restoring those historical Names to the Map of Doubtful Sound because they felt they just didn’t fit
Mr Hall-Jones had to make his case international before they eventually ruled in his favour and even when Fiordland Travel put on a special Bi Centenary cruise for the Spanish Landing it was boycotted by our local and National representatives, indeed my Wife & I ended up chatting to the Spanish ambassador most of the way as he had no one to talk diplomacy too.
And shame, the ODT did a full page colour Spread and put the Southland times to shame.
There are some similarities in this story John Hall Jones had one advantage Alassandro Malaspina was not an inspiration for the Movie Industry with all the pent up resentment that seems to bring out these days.
Interesting though, as yet those Spanish Names have so far evaded our popular culture, not being used in the Tourism Industry, Boats or street-names Tolkien’s names are there if you go looking, including inside the very Mountains of Fiordland. But he himself has never really been honoured.
Don’t mind me Uncle Jack, Like Dr John I am doing the right thing in the right place for the right reasons. History will be the Judge on March 28th.
The anti Tolkien Comments by Jack Murrell in your paper recently remind me of the bigotry surrounding John Hall Jones restoration of Spanish Place-names.
Everybody in authority here seemed to be against him restoring those historical Names to the Map of Doubtful Sound because they felt they just didn’t fit
Mr Hall-Jones had to make his case international before they eventually ruled in his favour and even when Fiordland Travel put on a special Bi Centenary cruise for the Spanish Landing it was boycotted by our local and National representatives, indeed my Wife & I ended up chatting to the Spanish ambassador most of the way as he had no one to talk diplomacy too.
And shame, the ODT did a full page colour Spread and put the Southland times to shame.
There are some similarities in this story John Hall Jones had one advantage Alassandro Malaspina was not an inspiration for the Movie Industry with all the pent up resentment that seems to bring out these days.
Interesting though, as yet those Spanish Names have so far evaded our popular culture, not being used in the Tourism Industry, Boats or street-names Tolkien’s names are there if you go looking, including inside the very Mountains of Fiordland. But he himself has never really been honoured.
Don’t mind me Uncle Jack, Like Dr John I am doing the right thing in the right place for the right reasons. History will be the Judge on March 28th.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
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?
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?
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
the Lost Tolkien Mountains
This is the Raw Data for the Wikipedia Page, 24/12/2012
Cut and Paste and View it in the Wikipedia "Sand Box" or try the following Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JRR_Tolkien%27s_Mountain&oldid=529589003
{{Infobox |
place_name = ''Tolkien Mountain''|
image_place = |
image_caption = |
place_alias = Consolation Peak , |
place_description = Mountain |
place_built =|
place_realm = [[ New Zealand]] |
}}
'''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]
{{reflist}}
==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]]
Cut and Paste and View it in the Wikipedia "Sand Box" or try the following Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JRR_Tolkien%27s_Mountain&oldid=529589003
{{Infobox |
place_name = ''Tolkien Mountain''|
image_place = |
image_caption = |
place_alias = Consolation Peak , |
place_description = Mountain |
place_built =|
place_realm = [[ New Zealand]] |
}}
'''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]
{{reflist}}
==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]]
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