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The Listener digs deep into LOTR films' impact on New Zealand - Lord of the Rings news - J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

October 19, 2000 at 17:40:44

If their analysis of the tax situation is as fraught with errors and mis-statements of fact as their brutal handling of Tolkien's storylines, everything is probably rosy in New Zealand's film industry and tax base after all.

Nonetheless, fans with a morbid sense of curiosity or a deep sense of compassion for New Zealanders who are heading into a worse economic situation than they are currently experiencing may want to read Tolkien-Movies.Com's scans of a very lengthy collection of articles from The Listener.

The intricacies of financial deals probably don't interest most people, but "The Lord of the Rings" is stirring up quite a controversy it seems. It will be the last set of movies to benefit from tax laws which were changed in 1999. New Zealand's film industry may be threatened with near total failure, or so the article would have us believe.

Further down in the scans provided by Tolkien-Movies.Com are several articles dealing with the movies and the book. The information about the movies is okay, but once the writer got into discussion Tolkien grand ignorance took control and some David Day-like nonsense spewed forth, spraying what could have been a very informative article about Tolkien's Middle-earth gross inaccuracies and compressions. Let the surfer beware.