Hobbiton

This morning we made our way to one of NZ's biggest tourist attractions - Hobbiton. All in all, we found it kind of underwhelming, which we were expecting, but figured we might as well do it while we were in the area. It was neat to see how, what used to be an ordinary farm, was transformed into the movie set and to learn how scenes were filmed to create the effect of the hobbits being much smaller than the other characters. Some of the trees are either entirely fake or had their leaves and fruit stripped and replaced for filming and there were people whose job it was to walk the paths from the hobbit holes to the laundry day after day to create the worn grass look.Leggi altro