{"id":102607,"date":"2016-12-21T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=102607"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:15:07","slug":"tourism-new-zealand-celebrates-fifteen-years-of-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/12\/21\/102607-tourism-new-zealand-celebrates-fifteen-years-of-middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism New Zealand celebrates fifteen years of Middle-earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gandalf-nz\"<\/a>As part of the celebrations of the fifteenth anniversary of the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, Tourism New Zealand <\/a>has launched a new way to explore the country that has become, for many, the ‘real’ Middle-earth. \u00a0They tell us:<\/p>\n

‘To celebrate New Zealand being the real Middle-earth for 15 years (since the first Lord of the Rings<\/em> film) we have come up with a new way to take you on an adventure.<\/p>\n

Imagine if you travelled the real Middle-earth like a Hobbit – what journey would you take? What if you were an Elf? A Dwarf? A Wizard? ‘Middle-earth travel’ aligns the characters to the NZ experiences they would do, on their New Zealand holiday.<\/p>\n

Consumers will take a quiz to discover what character they are, and will receive a personalised message from Peter Jackson saying:<\/p>\n