Empire Magazine Article :
Hungover Hobbits
Pictures from the New Zealand Rings premiere
02/12/2003
Heads were almost certainly pounding on Tuesday morning in New Zealand as the cast and crew of Return of the King - as well as half the population of Wellington - came down from the party of the millennium.
Monday's world premiere of the final film in the trilogy caused revelry the likes of which New Zealand may never see again with rumours that Orlando, Liv, Viggo and the gang rolled home at 7am after partying hard all through the night. One Empire Online reader who partook in the festivities wrote in to tell us that: "There were loads of private parties going all night. I don’t think Wellington will ever see anything like that again, was really a once in a lifetime thing, the atmosphere was awesome."
While you'll have to wait another week for a report from the UK premiere, you can get a taster of how things went Down Under from the rather excellent pictures our reader sent in below:
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