Plan B

Of course we're delighted for the New Zealand film industry that The Hobbit will be made locally. Also the tourism operators will be happy when NZ landscapes are showcased in scenes of Mirkwood, the orc caverns, and Laketown in flames.

Still, it means there is no need for our fallback plan here at Riddled Enterprises, to re-make The Lord of the Rings with a cast of cars. And we'd already gone to the trouble of filming the scenes with Shelob.