The following is a special Top Scoop's weekend ratings report + RUGBY NEWS....
Lions Roar
- IN a pulsating opener to NPC 2000 at WestpacTrust Stadium on Friday night Wellington beat Canterbury 27-20 with
powerhouse No8 Filo Tiatia charging toward regaining an All Black jersey with an awesome all-round performance. For
Mathew Loh’s match report see... Tiatia Shines In Lions Victory [1] in the Headlines wire. See Also...Scoop Images: Lions Vs Canterbury #1 [2] - #2 [3]
The Scoop Top 30 rating items yesterday were...
Yet another picture of a Lord of the Rings set has been supplied to Scoop by a friendly Hobbit. This time it appears to
show a mountaintop fortress guarded by an eagle statue.
The following image of Sunday night's total lunar eclipse was supplied by Christopher Picking.
The following is an image taken secretly from the Lord of the Rings site while filming takes place.
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
The following picture of a Hobbit House was supplied to Scoop by a friendly, anonymous, hobbit. Scoop beleives it is the
first published picture of Hobbitton, in the Waikato, taken from the ground rather than the air. The Hobbitton set is
being used for Peter ...
The guardian of Helms Deep - exclusively on Scoop! The following picture is from the set of Helms Deep used in the
filming of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Scoop came by it courtesy of a friendly Hobbit.
Re: Cate Blanchett and Galadriel's Evil Sister. THEONERING.NET'S Tehanu writes To the Dominion Letters To the Editor
page.
The latest pictures to come from the Lord of the Rings film website theonering.net seem to have had some magic touch ups
- if they are real photos at all...
Scoop is pleased to present a series of images of Lord of The Rings Filming from its content partner
http://theonering.net . They show filming underway in Happy Valley at Whakapapa skifield on Mt Ruapehu.
Responding to the hints of a couple of US Lord of The Rings websites - http://www.lordoftherings.com/ and
http://www.onering.net/ - Scoop earlier this week informed its star Hobbit paparazzi of a reported sighting of Gandalf's
exploding trees in Upper Hutt.
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some
scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.
Peter Jackson's latest movie in progress The Lord Of The Rings was recently given a sneak preview at the 'ShoWEST' Trade
Fair in Paris.
The following pictures show the inside of the set for the town of Bree from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy which began
shooting in New Zealand yesterday under the direction of Peter Jackson.
The following pictures were taken at Whakapapa ski-field on Mt Ruapehu at the weekend. Peter Jackson's film crews have
been filming scenes for the Lord of The Rings trilogy of films there recently.
Democratic presidential candidate, Al Gore, bills himself as a champion for the environment making impassioned pleas for
action in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance. But investigators are now accusing him of profiting from pollution. John
Howard reports.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... sometimes politics moves far beyond the stage where any rational citizen can give a rat's arse
about it. Sometimes it happens twice in a week.
Recent editions of upton-on-line have covered GM cows, trade agreements and the survival of the nation – all through the
prism of the Treaty of Waitangi. We thought we could turn elsewhere this week but the Treaty production line is in
over-drive and no-one ...
Scoop wouldn't normally so shamelessly lift a photo from a newspaper but in this instance the claim in the Mirror/Daily
Record that this is the "first" picture of the Lord of the Rings secret Kingdom, is, respectfully disputed.
Scoop's anonymous Hobbit photographer has been busy again snapping away at Lord of The Rings sets, this time at the most
photographed set of them all, the Haywards Hill (Dry Creek) quarry. Filming at the site is now fully underway with
scenes of ...
Liv Tyler, Wellywood's most talked about starlet, has been acting it up during shooting of the Lord of the Rings, both
on and off the set.
Movie star Liv Tyler takes a break from a hectic schedule of filming for the Lord of the Rings trilogy earlier this year
for a spot of shopping on Wellington's Willis St - photo Kevin Stent of the Sunday Star Times.
"The Corrective Party is appalled, disgusted and degraded at the continued hallucinogenic properties of the "Toffee
Pops" chocolate biscuit. When a woman eats this chocolate biscuit, she entertains fantasies of nubile scantily clad men
in their ...
Having seemingly scored the internet Scoop of the week with his pictures of BREE AT FIRST LIGHT Scoop contacted the
Hobbit who scooped the world and asked him if he had any more snaps from his visit to Bree....
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The two photos above one apparently of the same scene - appear to confirm that the Hobbit Town photos published this
morning by the Dominion are indeed real - even if they do look a little too toy townish.
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The
preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
Two more shots from Dry Creek Quarry on Haywards Hill near Wellington where filming is underway for the Lord of The
Rings Trilogy. See also... Scoop Images: Castles & Tents In A Quarry . Scoop would like to express its thanks to the kind hobbit who ...
More than three weeks after Scoop first published a picture of, allegedly, the home of a Hobbit from the Lord of the
Rings, and the day after we published aerial photos of the Waikato set the Dominion News Paper have run two highly
dubious – and probably ...
Courtesy of http://theonering.net and photographer Karen Tucker - Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson with the
Olympic Flame in Wellington's Civic Square yesterday.