4th Hobbit Film for Queenstown

Posted 13th January 2015 to Dave Williams of the Mountain Scene Newspaper Queenstown NZ

If you think about it there should be a Final Hobbit Film that Showcases the Real Star of The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien Trilogies:
New Zealand.
The late Dave Comer helped put together a Legendary Film of Fiordland Called Ata Whenua based on Music and Landscape only .
 So there should be a Short Cinema Film of All of Middle Earth with the Howard Shore Score featuring the Queenstown lake District, including Mount Earnslaw, Glenorchy, the Deer Park Heights, Mavora, Wanaka, Te Anau, Manapouri the Lost Tolkien Mountains and Mount Tolkien.

and Especially the Silverlode Falls Flowing from Manapouri’s North West Lake (Peter Jackson’s Favorite Location)

In Homage to the Jarred Conon, Ian Brodie, Alfie Speight and the wonderful Dave Comer.

If you think about it , it would be rude not to!

Spiritual Fascists of Invercargill

Posted 13 Jan 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill by A.E.Nicholson

Sir:
I don’t really want to be conversing with Spirtual Facists at this point considering what has happened in Paris
but if any one wants to know about Richard Dawkins you can find his Material in Bookshops
And on line, I suggest that the Aussie CJ Wherelman’s Books are also enlightening for those people fascinated with
Bible Stuff from a more local perspective. Due to editorial limits I can not explain the views of these writers in a small Public Opinion
Window.

And  BTW I don’t need to have the answers to EVERYTHING as I don’t think it is a constructive use of my time. I do like to observe life and on occasion, share my thoughts.

ODT- the Kingston Flyer Curse

Posted Friday 9th Jan 2015 to the Otago Daily Times Dunedin.

I have been Watching the Kingston Flyers Progress since I was in School when it first was mooted to Use Heritage Steam Trains for Tourists by the NZ Railways and I have to say it looks like Kingston is just doomed to fail at every attempt to make this Idea Work
The Best chance it had was when the then Fiordland Travel (aka Real Journeys) had a joint venture trip with the TSS Earnslaw
but they gave up on it. After that it just lost steam with blow after Blow I did suggest to the Late Les Hutchins how owned Real Journeys that they could have used there second Steam Ship the SS Tawera from Te Anau (similar to the old Ben Lomond) as a stand in for the Earnslaw and buy into the Flyer operation to make Kingston a Heritage Steam Town again... But it too risky Financially even for the Adventurist Les who was not physically well at the time.
And as Les would say his Board would see it as a Hare Brained Scheme anyway.

Today there are People with an eye on getting the Flyer one group in Invercargill want to put her back on the Rails to Bluff
As she was in the late 1970s when the Rails to Kingston got ripped out for scrap.

If they do that I would like to see the Mandeville Kingston Flyer People bring back their train to Kingston.
If you think about it, it would be rude not to .

Personally I think there is a curse on the Train, History says bad luck follows it.  Even Peter Jackson & Sam Neil  have abandoned their Patron positions, now Russell Glendinning. She really is an Orphan Now.

 

Richard Dawkins - Un Answered Questions

Posted 6th December 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

I see the subject of Richard Dawkins has come up for discussion in your Public Oppinion It seems there ARE some things Mr Dawkins has failed to answer about Evolutionary Biology:
For example Why do Humans have the physiology of Marine Mammals ?
I know we can swim & dive in the Ocean and use our Breath Control to Talk and control our body Temperature
better than Chimps and Bonobos but if it came to a Bare Handed Fight they would break us in half.
And they are much better at falling out of trees without ill effect.

Despite this I have to say Richard Dawkins really cares about all Humans and wants the best for them
Most Really Cleaver People Ignore Religion and won’t bother talking to its followers unless
For purposes of Manipulation, just look at old Newsreels of NAZIS Burning Jewish Books
There are illuminated Christian Crosses around the Fire, The Thing Dawkins Says is that the World is a Complicated Place
and People Shouldn’t try and simplify to one shot easy answers as it is intellectually laziness.

Richard really wants to save people from the danger of Closed Minds or demanding definitive answers to Everything.

Where Now for Middle Earth - Thierry Jutel

Posted 4th of January 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper NZ

Thierry Jutel of Victoria University wrote a article on the effect JRR Tolkien’s Film Trilogy
Will have permanently on New Zealand ?

I think thanks to the Late Dave Comer and the very much alive Sir Peter Jackson there will be some money thrown into
Presenting Middle Earth Pilgrimage Sites around the Country now that the movie presentation story is finished.

I would like to Challenge the Southland Mayors to try and do something positive in Presenting these Places with some Modest infrastructure such as Information Signage and walkways...

I know Mayor Frana was not keen on this kind of Tourism from her words in the Sunday Star Times but she is retired now.
Fiordland Southland and West Otago have some very Special Places for the Middle Earth Tourist and they are also nice for Regular people as well, in fact they are the Best outside of Hobbiton and the Volcanoes.

Fiordland two very special Places to Tolkien Devotees: the Anduin River Reach and the Mythical Mount Tolkien

Reply to E Mills on Christmas Myths

Posted 2nd January 2015 to the Southland Times Invercargill NZ

In Response to E Mills Letter to the Southland Times 2nd Jan 2015
I must say even though I quoted John Cleese I didn’t really expect the Spanish Inquisition!
E Mills might look out for them though as E Mills not only “Dissed” the Pythons but the Pope as well.
I don’t have Gods email and he has no complaints department though obviously several People in Invercargill speak on his behalf and as I have noted. So I would Like to complain to them about the lousy workmanship we have to put up with, Feel free to add to it feedback:  like Yes the Human Eye is complex but other Animals got better ones and they don’t have to wear glasses when they get old. Or Why does all the Rain Fall in the Ocean where there are no crops? Why didn’t Jesus know English or at least Write Latin ?
What’s with all the Religious Turf Wars. When is the New 2K Bible out. Or my favorite: Why do you need money from Poor People when you already own everything by default..? And... if EVERYTHING is part of a great plan than why is E Mills so unhappy with it?

Southand Times - the Christmas Myth

Posted Dec 26th 2014 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

I read laments that people have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas these days
Yes it once was a Solstice Festival to mark the turning of Winter on the road to spring.
If we want to celebrate this we should do it in July. the Jesus story is nice but hardly based on
specifics, even the Pope says we take it to literally in fact like Santa Claus Jesus just wants to know if your
naughty or nice and as John Cleese Pointed out All the Smartest people never take things literally so Pope Frank MUST be smart and you CAN celebrate Christmas in Winter and it won't bother Emperor Constantine as he is way too dead to care. After all it is all just an uplifting fairytale mainly for Children and silly adults just want to spoil it by being far too literal and way too materialistic!
BTW Why can't we celebrate the Planet? it was been very good to us so far.