Airline safety briefings can be dull, especially for frequent flyers who have heard it all before. But Air New Zealand would like you to pay attention, and being “The Official Airline of Middle-Earth”, they’ve enlisted the help of director Peter Jackson and some of the stars of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films to […]
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How far can Legolas see?
Don’t you just hate it when science gets in the way of a good story? No doubt JRR Tolkien thought it would be cool to give telescopic vision to elves, but it turns out that the laws of wave diffraction make it physically impossible to distinguish the detail which Legolas describes in The Two Towers. Or […]