Lauterbrunnen R. Tolkien hiked from Interlaken to the Lauterbrunnen Valley while on a trip to the Continent in 1911. The landscape of the valley later provided the concept and pictorial model for his sketches and watercolours of the fictitious valley of Rivendell, the dwelling place of Elrond Half-elven and his people. Lauterbrunnen featured in several scenes from the 1969 James Bond film" On Her Majesty's Secret Service", including a car chase in which Bond (played for the only time by George Lazenby) was driven away from henchmen of Ernst Stavro Blofeld by his girlfriend Tracy di Vicenzo in a dramatic pursuit
Aircraft in fiction by the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service. A Bell 206B was one of the helicopters that attacks the oil rig control center of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the climactic scenes of the 1971 James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever". The Jet Ranger also appeared in the 1977 Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" In the 1983 film "Blue Thunder", a Jet Ranger is portrayed as a LAPD helicopter flying for the Astro division. Also appears in the 1991 film Terminator 2, as another LAPD helicopter, which is stolen by the T-1000 Terminator and flown under an expressway to