In celebration of the upcoming big-screen adaptation of JRR Tolkien's epic novel, Air New Zealand has released an in-flight instructional video with some unexpected stars

A 13m-high Smeagol has taken up residence in one of New Zealand's main terminals to celebrate the upcoming release of the Tolkien adaptation

Eat your heart out Snow White, you've got nothing on Peter Jackson and his band of beardy warriors...

See new promotional artwork for An Unexpected Journey, the first part of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy

"Let's get Peter Jackson to direct" says Matt Smith - "Just name a time and place" replies the Hobbit helmsman

See the latest images from Peter Jackson's upcoming movie and watch the director announce a new trailer as part of Tolkien Week

Could a flurry of newly-registered domain names have divulged the two options for the title of the second Hobbit sequel?

Set visits, green-screen trickery, cast appearances and a trip to San Diego's Comic-Con convention all feature in the director's latest video blog

"There are other parts of the story that we’d like to tell, that we haven’t had the chance to tell yet," says the director

Director Peter Jackson's technical innovations make the film look "jarringly real" and "like television", according to some reviews