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title: Regarding Hobbits
date: 2018-02-22
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Finally, the reason we'd come to New Zealand in the first place: Hobbiton!  Just kidding, but we are ginormous dorks so we were pretty excited to see the film set.  We showed up in the afternoon and had a few hours to wait before our tour started, so we killed time scarfing down ice cream and perusing the gift shop.  Because of course there's a gift shop.  You can buy Gandalf's magic scarf (pretty sure Tolkein never mentioned a magic scarf, but hooray merchandising).

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At our allotted hour we got on a bus with about 30 other people, and started the drive through the surrounding hills to the movie set.  A video of <NAME> told us about the set, which sits on working farmland.  The first time it was built for the LOTR trilogy, it was only meant to be temporary so was built of foam and other flimsy materials.  But when Jackson wanted to rebuild the set for the Hobbit movies, the landowner, no doubt with giant dollar signs in his eyes like in the cartoons, asked if they could build it permanently this time so they could turn it into an attraction.<commit_msg>Spellcheck!<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: Regarding Hobbits
date: 2018-02-22
category: new_zealand
comments: true
---

Finally, the reason we'd come to New Zealand in the first place: Hobbiton!  Just kidding, but we are ginormous dorks so we were pretty excited to see the film set.  We showed up in the afternoon and had a few hours to wait before our tour started, so we killed time scarfing down ice cream and perusing the gift shop.  Because of course there's a gift shop.  You can buy Gandalf's magic scarf (pretty sure Tolkien never mentioned a magic scarf, but hooray merchandising).

{% include postpic.html file="IMG_20171218_151615.jpg" caption="We made it!  And there's ice cream!  And a very hairy Justin!" %}

{% include postpic.html file="IMG_20171218_153618.jpg" caption="Admiring the advertising as we wait for our tour to start." %}

At our allotted hour we got on a bus with about 30 other people, and started the drive through the surrounding hills to the movie set.  A video of <NAME> told us about the set, which sits on working farmland.  The first time it was built for the LOTR trilogy, it was only meant to be temporary so was built of foam and other flimsy materials.  But when Jackson wanted to rebuild the set for the Hobbit movies, the landowner, no doubt with giant dollar signs in his eyes like in the cartoons, asked if they could build it permanently this time so they could turn it into an attraction.
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