My sister bought us an early Christmas present to go see the Hobbiton film set which is basically loads of Hobbit holes used in the Lords of the Rings films. It was super fun even though we don’t know loads about the films.
We took a coach across watching Peter Jackson welcome us followed by some clips from the films to get us in the mood. Boo fell asleep and stayed asleep for the whole tour!
The tour guide was super, full of tales about the filming. We learnt all sorts of daft facts. Someone was recruited to walk up and put the washing out on the little lines in the morning and back in at night to create the natural trampling in the grass. At the start of filming a bunch of bull frogs moved into the newly created pond so someone had to go in each morning to remove them so filming could be done without any croaking in the background!
My favourite bit was that lots of the hobbit holes have a big version and a little version - one for the hobbits and one for the bigger people like Gandalf. I was surprised that there was only 12 days of filming on site which created only 12 minutes of film time across all the films.
We ended the tour with a pint of pale ale in the Green Dragon pub. Awesome.
It was super hot for our tour but great fun. A lovely early Christmas present. Thank you Kathryn.
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