Are Hobbits Real in New Zealand?

This is What it Looks Like. When Peter Jackson spotted the Alexander Farm during an aerial search of the North Island for the best possible locations to film The Lord of The Rings film trilogy, he immediately thought it was perfect for Hobbiton.
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Do Hobbits live in New Zealand?

Take an unexpected journey through New Zealand

New Zealand's rugged scenery was the location for much of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit films, but it was a 1,250 acre working sheep farm on North Island that became Hobbiton, the home of the hobbits in JRR Tolkien's fantasy land, Middle Earth.
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Is The Hobbit village still in New Zealand?

Where is The Shire in New Zealand? Hobbiton and The Shire are located in Matamata on the North Island. To visit you'll need your own vehicle or you can take a tour from Rotorua or Auckland.
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Where is the real life Hobbiton?

Set on a working sheep farm near the North Island's town of Matamata, Hobbiton Movie Set invites Middle Earth fans to discover the fantasy world depicted in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.
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Where is hobbit land NZ?

Physical address. 501 Buckland Road, Matamata, New Zealand.
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Do hobbit homes exist?

The Hobbit House, Matamata, New Zealand

In case you don't recognise it already, it was built as a set for The Lord of the Rings trilogy and covers 14 acres with 44 hobbit homes.
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Are The Hobbit holes real?

In The Lord Of The Rings, the Hobbits live in the Shire in their distinctive dwellings known as Hobbit Holes. They're really just homes built into hillsides, with banked earth sitting atop the basic structures.
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Is there a real life Shire?

"The Shire" set in Matamata, New Zealand is a popular tourist destination. Flickr/Chris J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" series takes place in an expansive and storied land called Middle Earth.
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Is Bag End a real place?

Not many are aware that Bag End was a name Tolkien borrowed from a real place called Bag End, the farm at Dormston in England, where tolkien's maternal aunt Jane Neave lived.
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Can you live in Hobbiton?

If you have come to New Zealand to see Middle-earth in real life, prepare to be wowed. And to make your Lord of the Rings experience even more special, you can stay in a hobbit hole. You can stay in a hobbit hole in two places not far from the Hobbiton Movie Set: Woodlyn Park Hotel.
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Was Lord of the Rings filmed in New Zealand?

The Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed entirely in New Zealand. Filming locations spanned more than 150 locations in both the North and the South Islands.
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Can you visit Bag End?

As it turns, the Shire exists and you can go there! At the Hobbiton Movie Set, you can stroll up to Bag End, drink like a hobbit at the Green Dragon Inn, and walk past hobbit hole after colorful hobbit hole. For LOTR fans, it is a fantasy come true.
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Is Rohan a real place?

Rangitata Valley, South Island

In the South Island's Rangitata Valley area, you'll find the dramatic scenery of Rohan, as seen in The Two Towers, on the real-life grassy outcropping called Mt. Sunday.
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Do Hobbits have a king?

After the battle, the kingdom of Arthedain was destroyed, and in absence of the king, the Hobbits elected a Thain of the Shire from among their own chieftains.
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Can you buy a hobbit hole?

You can now get pre-fabricated Hobbit homes that can be built in just three days. Imagine. Your own little corner of Middle Earth, wherever you want. The Hobbit holes are designed by Green Magic Homes and can be as snug or spacious as you like.
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How old is Gandalf?

The closest approximation of Gandalf's physical age is 24,000 years old, according to Gandalf himself. Yet, various dates of key events in other Tolkien texts show that Gandalf has actually only walked in his physical form for just over two thousand years.
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How tall is Gandalf?

Gandalf is 5'6", Legolas is 6', Boromir and Faramir are 6'4", Aragorn is 6'6", Elendil is 7'11" (even the NBA would call him a cheater), Celeborn and Galadriel are 6'4", Thingol is 8'2" (take THAT, Elendil, you little pipsqueak), and Bilbo is 3'6".
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What is Middle-earth in The Hobbit?

Middle Earth (middle-earth, Middle-earth or Middleearth) is the term used by author J.R.R. Tolkien to describe the lands of men, sometimes called the “mortal lands” in the books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
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Is New Zealand part of Australia?

As you can see then, New Zealand is not physically a part of Australia but separated from Australia by the Tasman Sea. The distance between Australia and New Zealand is approximately 1,500km (932 miles) at the closest point between the Australian island state of Tasmania and New Zealand's South Island.
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Is Helm's Deep a real place?

Tolkien based Helm's Deep on England's Cheddar Gorge, and the Glittering Caves of Aglarond on the cave complex that he had visited there.
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Where in New Zealand is Middle-Earth?

The most recognizable location is Hobbiton — the movie set in Matamata in New Zealand's Waikato district that was used during filming of both the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movie trilogies.
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How tall is a hobbit?

'Shortish in the leg'

In a prologue to The Lord Of The Rings, he wrote that Hobbits are between two and four feet tall, the average height being three feet six inches.
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How much would it cost to build a hobbit hole?

So for 1,000 square feet, it'll cost you $41,000.
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