The film versions of books have always gotten the bad rap for failing to measure up to their printed counterpart -- they just can't seem to get it right. But, perhaps these films are created to serve a different purpose; because there's just no way they can replicate books like a spitting image. The films are there to visually narrate our favorite stories and leave little to be imagined. We are visual creatures after all.
But, there's probably no better way to bring these fictional worlds into life than to roam one yourself. And, the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour offers you just that.
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"The Lord of The Rings" and "The Hobbit" fans would be delighted to know that they can actually take a guided tour to The Shire, home of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, the Creative Boom also reports. And you need not gain access to some rabbit hole to get to the Middle-Earth because, apparently, the place is set in some picturesque pastoral land of the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand.
A quiet evening at home for the fishermen. Hobbiton Movie SetMatamata, NZ.Photo by the talented Shaun Jeffers Photography.
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The film setting, first seen in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was re-created for the succeeding Peter Jackson's trilogy film, "The Hobbit." To this day, the set, now trademarked as Hobbiton, has retained its look and went on to become one of the country's popular tourist attractions.
Those who take the tour wander and gander at the sweeping rural views of the captivating expanse of the Waikato farmlands, with the Kaimai Ranges in the backdrop. They will be taken across the 1,250 acres of sheep farms into the actual Hobbiton movie set.
'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.' ...So stay inside and read. #TolkienReadingDay
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Here one can find several "Hobbit Holes, the Green Dragon Inn, The Mill, double-arched bridge, and other structures and gardens" that were featured in the films.
Visitors can while away some of their time inside the Green Dragon Inn, which was master-crafted to replicate the exact interiors of the inn from the films. Everyone's entitled to a free snack at this place, so dine and share some light-hearted talk with your friends and families like real Hobbits do.
Both "The Lord of The Rings" and 'The Hobbit' films were adaptations of the popular books, which go by the same names, by the English writer and university professor J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien.
The man once said that "not all those who wander are lost"; and had he been still living today, he would have told the films' legion of fans to visit Hobbiton for them to wander and get lost in their thoughts of the beauty that is the surrounding nature.
