Comments on: Hobbiton: A Very Real Idyll https://www.baldhiker.com/hobbiton-a-very-real-idyll/ Travel, Walks, Retreats & Experiences Sun, 17 Dec 2023 09:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Pete R. https://www.baldhiker.com/hobbiton-a-very-real-idyll/#comment-59249 https://www.baldhiker.com/?p=10461#comment-59249 Oh, I can feel the fantasy leaking out of the photos! 🙂 Looks like you had an awesome time there.

Is this far from the city area?

]]> By: Kiwitravelbug https://www.baldhiker.com/hobbiton-a-very-real-idyll/#comment-27334 https://www.baldhiker.com/?p=10461#comment-27334 During the filming of LOTR Hobbiton was just that – a film set, off limits until after the movies were completed. Some hobbit holes remained, but much of the site was stripped back. So many people continued to visit however, that a deal was struck that during and after the filming of the Hobbit, the set would be left as a permanent fixture and tourist attraction, so it really does look like the real thing and not just facades – right down to ensuring that the Green Dragon pub would be built as a working tavern bar – unfortuately only for private occassions and events. It isn’t used as a local pub – yet…..

]]> By: Liandangeloshome.wordpress.com https://www.baldhiker.com/hobbiton-a-very-real-idyll/#comment-27092 https://www.baldhiker.com/?p=10461#comment-27092 Thanks for sharing your thoughts about hobbiton. Regards

]]> By: Terry Dobbins https://www.baldhiker.com/hobbiton-a-very-real-idyll/#comment-26539 https://www.baldhiker.com/?p=10461#comment-26539 Felt like I was realising a childhood dream being in Hobbiton. Have you been up Mt. Doom yet ( Mount Ngauruhoe)? Our tour guide even played the Music from the film on her flute as we sat in the Green Dragon sipping cider.Have you been up Mt. Doom yet ( Mount Ngauruhoe)?

]]> By: Ysabel Garcia-Betteridge https://www.baldhiker.com/hobbiton-a-very-real-idyll/#comment-24766 https://www.baldhiker.com/?p=10461#comment-24766 Great post and photos….now I want to live in Hobbiton too!! 🙂

]]> By: Andrew https://www.baldhiker.com/hobbiton-a-very-real-idyll/#comment-24633 https://www.baldhiker.com/?p=10461#comment-24633 Fantastic – I didn’t realise you could do tours. Had always assumed it was just a film set and would, as you say, have all the paraphernalia just round the back of a ‘hole’.

]]> By: Deidre https://www.baldhiker.com/hobbiton-a-very-real-idyll/#comment-24623 https://www.baldhiker.com/?p=10461#comment-24623 Lovely photos! I’d have passed up rafting for this trip as well – good choice! After all, there are many places you can raft! Thoroughly enjoyed your post!

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