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'Please Mr Frodo, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?'... 'No Sam, it's Middle-earth.'

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posted on 2024-11-14, 01:23 authored by Michael Organ
The exploitation of JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth by Tourism New Zealand following the success of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films and the release of the first part of The Hobbit has been met with accusations of cultural racism by Maori, misrepresentation by Pakeha and re-appropriation by independent British filmmakers, writes Michael Organ.

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Organ, M. K. 2013, ''Please Mr Frodo, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?'... 'No Sam, it's Middle-earth.'', Metro, no. 177 (July), pp. 56-61.

Journal title

Metro

Volume

177

Issue

Winter

Pagination

56-61

Language

English

RIS ID

84331

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