{"id":99449,"date":"2015-10-06T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=99449"},"modified":"2015-10-06T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T00:02:49","slug":"hobbiton-makes-the-list-of-top-16-movie-locations-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/10\/06\/99449-hobbiton-makes-the-list-of-top-16-movie-locations-to-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbiton makes the list of top 16 movie locations to visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thedoor\"<\/a>Not surprising to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movie fans, lifestyle and travel blog, BLT<\/a>, has named Hobbiton as one of its top 16 movie locations to visit. From the blog<\/a>:\u00a0 “The gardens and crops surrounding the homely Hobbiton<\/a> featured in Peter Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings series were actually planted a year before the filming of the first movie. Hobbiton was built and designed with the fictional landscape described by J.R.R. Tolken in the books and the set still stands today. In fact, people travel from all over the world to take a two-hour tour of the set. Hobbiton, although originally just a movie set, is now a permanent tourist attraction.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Other locations mentioned in the blog include Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England (Harry Potter; Downton Abby), The Hawaiian island of Kauai (Jurassic Park; Raiders of the Lost Arc) and California’s Redwood National Park (Star War’s Forest Moon of Endor). While all of them would be fun to visit, we’re partial to Hobbiton not the least of which is because it’s not just a building or a landscape to look at. As the article mentions, it’s a permanent tourist attraction in beautiful New Zealand, offering excellent guided tours, a store and a pub! What’s not to love?<\/p>\n

Check out Hobbiton and the other top 15 movie locations to visit here<\/a>, and let us know which ones you’d most like to see (after Hobbiton, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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