Join Kili and Mike the Guide for a tour of several Lord of the Rings filming locations, including Isengard, Anduin, and Rivendell!
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Enjoy the photos below and remember to check out our Happy Hobbit YouTube channel for many more videos from New Zealand and the California shire! A great place to start is this playlist:
Where the hobbits tumbled down the hillside in their “shortcut t mushrooms!”
Hiding from the Nazgul… and my fellow tourists! (The tree in the film was fake)
Being Frodo resting and smoking in he and Sam’s camp.
Frodo’s view of the canopy.
Where Sam and the cookfire should be!
Buckland?
Where the Ringwraith appeared in slow-mo in FOTR.
One of the Anduin locations
By the river Anduin
Trying to make a wizard’s beard in Isengard.
We bumped into Jack Machiela, the head of the Wellington Tolkien Society!
Mike the Guide and I pose as Gandalf and Saruman. “Your love of the halfling’s leaf has dulled your mind.”
“Rip them out. All of them.” Isengard.
The two trees in the distance are where Gandalf rode when he arrived at Isengard in FOTR.
Where Brego awakens Aragorn after his “tumble over a cliff” in TTT.
If only Brego really were there!
Where Faramir’s vision of his dead brother was filmed for TTT:EE.
Elven carvings.
An Elvish welcome in Rivendell!
Because some of our Elvish is rusty…
Mike the Guide and a not-so-accurate height chart in Rivendell.
Sauron’s eyes?! Just… no.
Posing like Legolas where he did some classic photos.
