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It is situated on a family-run farm about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Hinuera and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Matamata, in Waikato, New Zealand, and is now a Tolkien tourism destination, offering a guided tour of the set.
The Hobbiton Movie Set in Waikato, New Zealand, has been on the tourist map for some time, but until recently most of the Hobbit Holes have been off limits. Now they’ve finally opened up and ...
The Lord of the Rings film series by Peter Jackson, based on J. R. R. Tolkien's novel of the same name, were shot at locations throughout New Zealand.Many of these places have been preserved and altered to encourage the media pilgrimage tourism that makes up a significant portion of the country's economy.
The company is named after the New Zealand wētā, one of the world's largest insects. [2] Wētā Workshop's output was used in director Peter Jackson's film trilogies The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, producing sets, costumes, armour, weapons, creatures and miniatures. [3] It also aided in the making of Jackson's 2005 version of King Kong. [4]
"Shantytown" from lookout. Shantytown Heritage Park, usually known as Shantytown, is a tourist attraction in the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand.Located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of Greymouth, the Heritage Park opened in 1971 and consists of 30 re-created historic buildings making up a 19th-century gold-mining town.
Bag End, Hobbiton, the comfortable underground dwelling of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins, constructed for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series. Tolkien's painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water, watercolour, 1938 [1] showing its ideal position near the top of the Hill at Hobbiton, with less-favoured Hobbit-holes lower down.
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New Zealand Railways Department took over the line on 1 April 1886. [15] Initially 40 minutes north of the temporary terminus at Oxford (Tirau) and about an hour from Morrinsville . [ 16 ] For a while Matamata seems to have become a flag station , [ 17 ] [ 18 ] though it did have cattle yards and a 60 ft (18 m) by 30 ft (9.1 m) [ 15 ] a goods ...