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By the time of The Lord of the Rings, Bree is the westernmost settlement of men in Middle-earth, and there is no other settlement of men within a hundred leagues of the Shire. [T 1] Tom Bombadil knows of Bree, saying in his metrical speech "four miles along the road / you'll come upon a village, / Bree under Bree-hill, / with doors looking ...
When Peter Jackson began to look for suitable locations for The Lord of the Rings film series, [5] he first saw the Alexander Farm during an aerial search [4] in 1998 [6] and concluded that the area was "like a slice of ancient England". [5] Set Decorator Alan Lee commented that the location's hills "looked as though Hobbits had already begun ...
The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire is an inland area settled exclusively by hobbits, the Shire-folk, largely sheltered from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth.
In The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age is described as having free peoples, namely Men, Hobbits, Elves, and Dwarves in the West, opposed to peoples under the control of the Dark Lord Sauron in the East. Some commentators have seen this as implying a moral geography of Middle-earth.
The journalist Jane Ciabattari writes that a major reason for the popularity of Lord of the Rings was the desire for escape among the Vietnam War generation. She compares the military-industrial complex with Mordor , and suggests that they yearned for a place of peace, just as Frodo Baggins felt an "overwhelming longing to rest and remain at ...
The Lord of the Rings contains three maps and over 600 placenames. The maps are a large drawing of the north-west part of Middle-earth , showing mountains as if seen in three dimensions, and coasts with multiple waterlines; [ T 3 ] a more detailed drawing of "A Part of the Shire "; [ T 4 ] and a contour map by Christopher Tolkien of parts of ...
Edoras in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. For Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the Poolburn Reservoir in Central Otago, New Zealand was used for Rohan scenes. [33] The theme for Rohan is played on a Hardanger fiddle. [34]
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.