(TELEGRAPH) – A giant eagle used to promote The Hobbit film trilogy has fallen to earth from the ceiling of Wellington airport during a severe earthquake in central New Zealand.
However, a second eagle, being ridden by a sculpture of The Hobbit’s beneficent wizard Gandalf, was undamaged and remained affixed to the ceiling.
The quake, with a 6.3 magnitude, damaged buildings and caused train suspensions, rock slides and road closures but is not believed to have caused any injuries.
