 1 Air New Zealand's 'Aragorn' plane |
 2 'Airline to Middle-Earth' |
 3 Gollum at Wellington Airport |
 4 Cave Troll on the loose in Wellington |
 5 Chocolate Fish Cafe: a favourite hang-out of some of the cast during their stay in Wellington..... |
 6 Chocolate Fish Cafe: ... so naturally we had lunch there too! |
 7 In this green belt in Wellington's Mt Victoria many of the scenes of the Hobbits leaving the Shire were shot. |
 8 Location of the tree the Hobbits crawled under to hide from the 'Black Rider' - of course it was enhanced for the movie.... |
 9 The 'LOTR Location Guidebook' gives GPS coordinates and this proves that it is the tree! |
 10 Wellington: Mt Victoria town Belt aka 'The Shire' (in the leaving-the-shire scenes) |
 11 Wellington: Mt Victoria town Belt aka 'The Shire' (in the leaving-the-shire scenes) |
 12 Wellington: Mt Victoria town Belt aka 'The Shire' (in the leaving-the-shire scenes) - somewhere around here the 'get-off-the-road!' scene was shot. |
 13 Wellington: Mt Victoria town Belt aka 'The Shire' (in the leaving-the-shire scenes)... again somewhere in the vicinity of the 'get-off-the-road!' scenes. |
 14 Cliff faces and trees at the top of Ellice St in Wellington provided the location for the 'Rohirrim encampment of Dunharrow' |
 15 Harcourt Park was used for the 'Gardens of Isengard', when Gandalf visits Saruman after the rediscovery of the ring at Hobbiton. |
 16 'Gardens of Isengard': again this spot was altered for the actual filming: a gravel pathway with chain-linked fence was added to make it the entrance into Isengard. |
 17 A 'Rivendell'-scene was shot here |
 18 Explanation of the scene.... |
 19 .... and just about the spot. |
 20 Tongariro National Park: Mordor scenes were shot here but the weather was too awful to even get out of the car! |
 21 And here we are! In 'Hobbiton'! Location: Matamata |
 22 Party Tree |
 23 Bag End at the top. Bagshot Row was in the foreground but has been removed. |
 24 Bag End: dwelling of the Baggings Family. Bilbo left it to Frodo, who in turn left it to Samwise Gamgee. |
 25 2 Happy Hobbits! |
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 29 Party field and Party Tree from Bag End |