{"id":33565,"date":"2009-09-19T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=33565"},"modified":"2009-09-19T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T21:26:22","slug":"getaway-visits-hobbiton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/09\/19\/33565-getaway-visits-hobbiton\/","title":{"rendered":"Getaway Visits Hobbiton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mormegil<\/strong>: Clip from Australian travel show Getaway showing some of the work currently going on at the Hobbiton set. From the site: Back in 1998, sheep farmer Dean Alexander was enjoying a quiet day on his farm on New Zealand’s North Island when a visitor changed his and his family’s lives forever. Jules Lund travelled across the Tasman to see just why. It seems the makers of the film trilogy Lord of the Rings needed the perfect place to build the Hobbiton village. Peter Jackson, the award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, spotted Alexander Farm during an aerial location search. The Alexander family knew nothing about Lord of the Rings but they soon learnt. Their property has the three main elements the makers were searching for: a lake, a big tree and a field. More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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