The Lord of the Rings is one of the most colorful epic films shot recently. To many viewers, these films were remembered for their incredible beauty of landscapes. Most of them can be seen with their own eyes in New Zealand.
Elves and Hobbits in New Zealand
The small town of Matamatu, which is located in the Waikato region, is currently the site of a true tourist pilgrimage. After all, it was in the vicinity of this city that the Shire was filmed - the wonderful lands where the hobbit people live. Waikato with small farms, green gentle hills, heather thickets has become an ideal place for these shootings. Most of the scenery is still preserved in the vicinity of the city, so here you can see hobbies holes with green round doors, a huge tree, from which Bilbo Beggins and other memorable places from the film celebrated his birthday.
In the vicinity of Wellington (the capital of New Zealand), the shooting lasted for three years. Here you can see the incredible landscapes that surrounded in the film the elven Rivendell Valley, and nearby - the plains on which Orthank stood. If you walk along the hills of Vairarap, you can get to the gloomy peaks of Pitangirua, where the Path of the Dead was shot from the third film.
Not far from the famous resort town of Queenstown, which is located in a unique natural area, the golden forests of Lorien were filmed - places where the beautiful elven mistress Galadriel reigns. And a dozen kilometers from this city is a wonderful national park called Deer Park Heights, where they shot the battle of the Rohans with the orcs.
