New Zealand has always been God’s Own Country and its a title many would fear to compete for. While Aussie has a reef and the Yanks some hole in the ground they call a canyon, the Poms may have a Lake District and the Europeans rave about their mountains.
Give me, give me God’s own country! there to live and there to die, God’s own country! fairest region resting ‘neath the southern sky, God’s own country! framed by Nature in her grandest, noblest mould; Land of peace and land of plenty, land of wool and corn and gold!
The Hobbit movie has arrived to a great fanfare. This wasn’t just the long awaited revealing of Peter Jackson’s Tolkien expression but even more it is the beginning of the culmination of a Hobbit’s journey that began over a decade ago in Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring.
I still remember saving my paper run money to afford my own subscription to 2000AD. The coloured fish and chip paper comic from the UK