{"id":35217,"date":"2010-02-10T21:32:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=35217"},"modified":"2010-02-10T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:32:36","slug":"poolburn-reservoir-prepping-for-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/02\/10\/35217-poolburn-reservoir-prepping-for-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Poolburn Reservoir Prepping for The Hobbit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong>Niels<\/strong> writes: I was at the Poolburn Reservoir in the south-island this morning enjoying the scenery where the burning Rohirrim village was shot.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/23744922.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/23744922.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Poolburn Reservoir\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35218 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On our way over there through the Ida Valley I already spotted a helicopter, since we&#8217;ve seen loads of them on our trip so far I didn&#8217;t think anything of it then. But when we were at the Poolburn Reservoir I climbed up on one of the rocks to get a better view of the reservoir below, and the helicopter returned and made a very low pass alongside the reservoir. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It passed right alongside me being on the rocks and when I looked at it I could see it was a helicopter with the big bulky camera ball on it&#8217;s nose. Just Like the ones used for filming.  <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t have my camera handy, otherwise I would&#8217;ve made a picture.<\/p>\n<p>Now someone could be making a shot of the region just for a tourist video promoting the region or something like that. But the first thing that came to my mind was something like location scouting. I don&#8217;t see a direct connection between The Hobbit and this location though, but maybe someone else knows more about this or has also seen it.<br \/>\nI just wanted to let you know, maybe your sources can figure out what was going down out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niels writes: I was at the Poolburn Reservoir in the south-island this morning enjoying the scenery where the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,333,20,334,148,67],"tags":[1100],"class_list":["post-35217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-new_zealand","category-hobbit-rumors","category-hobbit","category-nz-tours","tag-poolburn-reservoir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9a1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}