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  2. Hobbiton Movie Set - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Now you can visit a real-life ‘Hobbit Hole’ in New Zealand

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    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. ... in 1998 a visit from “Lord of the ...

  4. Matamata - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Tolkien tourism - Wikipedia

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    Many experts and New Zealanders hoped for a renewed Tolkien effect because The Hobbit was also filmed in New Zealand. [7] Whether or not this was vitally important to New Zealand's tourism industry was a big debating point during short-lived fears that industrial disputes could make the film production occur outside of the country.

  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:Hobbiton, The Shires, Middle-Earth, Matamata, New ...

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  8. Bag End - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    New Zealand [a] is an island country ... Köppen-Geiger climate classification map of New Zealand. ... The Hobbiton Movie Set, located near Matamata, ...