Ian Brodie

Ian Brodie has two great enthusiasms - warplanes and Tolkien. And in a unique kind of way they have combined in the Location

Guidebook. As director of the NZ Fighter Pilot′s Museum in Wanaka, Ian organises and attends flying shows throughout New Zealand, where he met a fellow enthusiast, Peter Jackson. Not too long after that the idea was born to write a guide for fans to the locations used in filming Peter′s masterpiece. Ian set out with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the books and movies, a GPS and a ton of enthusiasm, and compiled the ultimate fan′s tribute to the moviemakers and the host of locals who contributed to the movie trilogy...

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