Fantasy to reign at Science MuseumOrcs, elves and other denizens of Middle Earth are set to invade London's Science Museum as it plays host to an exhibition dedicated to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films this autumn. Visitors will get to see hundreds of props and costumes from the movies and learn how many of the special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. were achieved. A few of the 1,600 pairs of rubber ears and feet used in the films will be on display as well as Gimli's chainmail armour, Galadriel's dress and three separate versions of the same elven sword - in steel, aluminium and rubber. The props will sit alongside interactive exhibits demonstrating how Jackson was able to show hobbits In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. They first appear in The Hobbit and play an important role in the The Lord of the Rings story. This is a list of hobbits that are mentioned by name in Tolkien's works. and humans in the same frame and giant models used to create the trilogy's CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. creatures. One display concerns the semi-autonomous digital orcs and elves set to battle one another in computer-generated shots of the battle of Helm's Deep The valley was blocked over its entire width by the natural series of hills called Helm's Dike and behind that lay the fortress of Aglarond or the Hornburg, at the entrance to the Glittering Caves. , and will explain why 50 of the CGI orcs decided to run away instead. Opening on September 16, the exhibition will run until January 11 2004 and is Europe's only chance to see the show before it moves on to Boston, Singapore and Sydney. The show was put together by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is the national museum of New Zealand. It is branded and commonly known as Te Papa and Our Place; "Te Papa Tongarewa" is broadly translatable as "the place of treasures of this land". with help from New Line, the studio behind the films. John Tucker For other persons named John Tucker, see John Tucker (disambiguation). John G. Tucker (born September 29, 1964) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League in the 1980s and 90s. , head of the Science Museum, said the exhibition was directly relevant to the museum's remit as it sought to demonstrate "the rise in photography and film-making from the very beginning" and show how far movie technology had come. Tickets cost from £6.95 for children and from £9.95 for adults. A booking line has already been set up on 0870 870 4868. 
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