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A Typical Portly Hobbit
Exceptional as it was, Viggo Mortensen's devotion to his character was anything but an exception - and both "elves" and "hobbits" were every bit as devoted as "men".

Edward Porper
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King of Gondor
On a Sunday morning residents of a quiet neighbourhood in the middle of Wellington were woken up by blood-curdling battle cries.

Edward Porper
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Pohutukawa
I have seen many trees and was impressed by quite a few of them – yet never as much as by that Kiwi tree with an allegedly typical Maori name “pohutukawa”.

Edward Porper
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Welcome to my Blog
Did you think there were only Seven Wonders in the world? Years of traveling have convinced me that there are at least a thousand times more...

Edward Porper
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