New Zealand is really a picturesque place, and no surprise as to why Peter Jackson decided to shoot the trilogies here.
While I am still ticking off locations, I wanted to share with you what I see as I do.
Below you will find my journey through Middle-Earth
While I am still ticking off locations, I wanted to share with you what I see as I do.
Below you will find my journey through Middle-Earth
NORTH ISLAND
Port Waikato // Weathertop Tongariro National Park // Mordor Tawhai Falls // Gollum's Pool Whakapapa Ski Field // Mordor and the Emyn Muil Okahune // Ithilien and Mordor Mangawhero River // Gollum's River Rangitikei River Gorge // River Anduin Waitarere Forest // Trollshaw Forest and Osgiliath Wood Otaki and Otaki Gorge // Leaving the Shire Paraparaumu // The Pelennor Fields Mt Victoria // Escape from the Nazgul Mt Victoria & Lyall Bay // Dunharrow & The Black Gates of Mordor Fort Dorset // Bree Haywards Hill Quarry // Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith Fernside // Lothlorien and The Gladden Fields The Putangirua Pinnacles // The Dimholt Road Kaitoke Regional Park // Rivendell and the Fords of Isen Harcourt Park // Isengard Gardens and The Orc Tree Hutt River // River Anduin and Rohan River SOUTH ISLAND Takaka Hill // Chetwood Forest Mt Olympus // South of Rivendell Mt Owen // Dimrill Dale The Southern Alps // The Misty Mountains Mt Potts Station // Edoras Twizel // The Pelennor Fields Franz Josef Glacier // The Lighting of the Beacons Tarras // The Flight to the Ford Wanaka // South of Rivendell and Misty Mountains Kawarau River // Pillars of the Kings Arrowtown // The Ford of Bruinen and The Gladden Fields Skippers Canyon // The Ford of Bruinen Deer Park Heights // The Two Towers The Remarkables // Dimrill Dale Closeburn // Amon Hen Twelve Mile Delta // Ithilien Glenorchy // Isengard and Lothlorien The Routeburn Track Road // Isengard Mavora Lakes // Fangorn Forest and Nen Hithoel Mararoa River // Silverlode River Takaro Road // Fangorn Forest Norwest Lakes // South of Rivendell and Flight to the Ford Poolburn // Rohan Ida Valley // Rohan Waiau River and Kepler Track // River Anduin |
NORTH ISLAND
Aratiatia Rapids // Barrel Scene (Leaving the Woodland Realm) Ohakune // Leaving the Shire Turoa Ski Field // Lonely Mountain Secret Door The King Country // Trollshaws Denize Bluffs // The Stone Trolls, Troll Treasure Cave and Radagast Appears Mt. Crawford // Dale SOUTH ISLAND Pelorus Bridge // Barrel Riders Canaan Downs // Outer Reaches of the Shire Kaihoka Lakes // Trollshaw Aorere River and Salisbury Falls // The River Running from the Elvenking's Gate through to the Long Lake Punakaiki // Barrel River (Rocky Landscape) The Matukituki Valley // Leaving the higher dells of the Misty Mountains en route to Mirkwood Treble Cone // The company trekking along the Misty Mountains Pass Glenorchy // Beorn's Home Southern Alps // Many of the mountain scenes Organ Pipes // Rescued by the Great Eagles, Gandalf's climb to the High Fells and the Resting Place of the Nine Earnslaw Burn // Approaching the High Pass to cross from Eriador into Rhovanion Passburn // Company trek from Rivendell towards the High Pass Mararoa Saddle // Thorin leads the Dwarves away from Erebor after Smaug gatecrashes Nokamai String Bog // Thorin leads the Dwarves away from Erebor after Smaug gatecrashes Te Anau Downs Station // Wild Lands near the Camrock Snowdon Forest // Background plates in An Unexpected Journey Sutherland Falls // The Eyrie Takaro Lodge // Composite shot of the Mirkwood Forest Glenaray Station // High Fells Middlemarch // Wargs chase down the Company Hartfield // Wargs chase down the Company Braemar Station // Wargs chase down the Company Lake Pukaki // Wargs chase down the Company |
OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST
SOUTH ISLAND
Nelson // Jens Hansen the Ringmaker |
Ian Brodie
Some of this information has been sourced from the highly acclaimed Location Guidebooks by Ian Brodie.