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  2. Hobbiton Movie Set - Wikipedia

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    In 2010, the set was rebuilt in a more permanent fashion for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, [6] [9] filming for which began in 2011. [10] Ian McKellen reprised his role as Gandalf the Grey and was joined on the Hobbiton location by Martin Freeman, who remarked that the site "just looked like a place where people lived and where people ...

  3. Tolkien fandom - Wikipedia

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    Foster attributes the surge of Tolkien fandom in the United States of the mid-1960s to a combination of the hippie subculture and anti-war movement pursuing "mellow freedom like that of the Shire" and "America's cultural Anglophilia" of the time, fuelled by a bootleg paperback version of The Lord of the Rings published by Ace Books followed up by an authorised edition by Ballantine Books. [8]

  4. Impact of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien tourists visiting the Hobbiton film set in New Zealand. Tolkien's books and Jackson's films have stimulated enormous Tolkien fandom activity in meetings such as Tolkienmoot, [6] in Tolkien Societies in many countries, and on the Internet, with discussion groups, fan art, and many thousands of Tolkien fan fiction stories. [7]

  5. Tolkien tourism - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien tourism has existed to a lesser extent independent from the Jackson movies, in other places associated with him. Tolkien worked for much of his career in Oxford , England. The colleges where Tolkien taught, the pubs that he and the Inklings frequented, the church he attended, and his former homes in the city all attract tourist interest.

  6. The Shire - Wikipedia

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    The house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton as filmed in New Zealand. The protagonists of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, lived at Bag End, [d] a luxurious smial or hobbit-burrow, dug into The Hill on the north side of the town of Hobbiton in the Westfarthing. It was the most comfortable hobbit ...

  7. File:Hobbit Hole -- Hobbiton Movie Set, Matamata, New Zealand ...

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  8. The Scouring of the Shire - Wikipedia

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    "The Scouring of the Shire" is the penultimate chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings.The Fellowship hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, return home to the Shire to find that it is under the brutal control of ruffians and their leader "Sharkey", revealed to be the Wizard Saruman.

  9. Middle-earth peoples - Wikipedia

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    The fictional races and peoples that appear in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth include the seven listed in Appendix F of The Lord of the Rings: Elves, Men, Dwarves, Hobbits, Ents, Orcs and Trolls, as well as spirits such as the Valar and Maiar.