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The poster that is unlisted in price at Nomads Safari in Queenstown.
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At Hobbiton with the party tree over my right shoulder.
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First shot of it as I walked up the hill.
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The most famousest of all hobbit holes, Bag End.
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A poster in my hostel in Wellington.
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"Get off the road!"
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Looking across lake Wanaka. This is the shot that you see when Gandalf jumps on the back of Gwaihir ...
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The beer brewed especially for the films.
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Found this in the wool shop at the Agrodome in Rotorua. This company did not exist prior to the ...
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Step 1: Hug the party tree for good luck.
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Step 2: Have a dance under it for better luck.
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The party tree from the perspective of Bilbo's speech.
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The site where the bridge and the mill stood. You can see the colored markers where the supports ...
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Sam's hobbit hole, as a single man. The only hole with the chimney still intact.
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Does this need a description?...
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From the inside. That's right! I stood inside Frodo's home!
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The window through which Gandalf pulled Samwise the nosy and sealed his fate forever.
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Then...
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....and now.
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These are the remains of an oak tree that was purchased, cut, transported, and then reassembled on ...
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Matamata is small enough that they changed the welcome sign in the town. Even the newspaper is ...
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My driver, Danny. Loved this guy. Jovial, full of trivia, and digits only numbering nine due to a ...
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The car park which used to be the 'wet set' for the films.
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This was where the path to Isengard was filmed. You'll notice the slightly darker strip of grass ...
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Me standing in front of where Orthance would have stood. Saruman walks down the stairs and greets ...
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Where Saruman and Gandalf walked while talking about the ring (and Saruman mentions Gandalf's love ...
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Re-enacting Aragorn washing ashore in the Two Towers. They brought in sand to cover the rock. ...
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What a great park sign! It's no wonder that it's gone missing twice already. Perhaps a third time ...
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On set at Rivendell. Ted was helping me by holding up the scene shot he showed us.
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The two less-than-fanatics helping out for me to take a photo.
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The promotional poster of Legolas was shot here. I'm so much better than Orlando...
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See. He didn't even have an action shot.
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The quarry where the sets for Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith were built. PJ knew he was going to use ...
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The next few shots were all in Mt. Victoria which is right in Wellington. Hard to imagine given the ...
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In the extended version of the first film, Sam and Frodo stopped here on their first night out of ...
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And this is what Frodo looked like.
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And now Sam.
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The ledge off which the four hobbits rolled after escaping Farmer Maggot.
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I'm sure you'll remember this scene.
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This is where Frodo says, "I think we should get off the road..."
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Three (should be four) hobbits huddling under the spot where the large tree root lay, which was made ...
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After being chased by the black rider through the woods, Frodo stops at this tree for a breather.
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Our best recreation of the black rider backlit upon the hill.
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PJ's production studios, currently working on Avatar, a new James Cameron film.
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The Weta Workshop as seen from the parking lot, the closest we could get. Lurtz is seen on the left ...
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You can just barely make out 'weta' near that person. I was hoping to get the bug logo in there as ...
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FX dorx humor.
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Near the Franz Josef glacier on my kayak trip. These trees were the inspiration for the Ents.
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The river Anduin on our hike from Te Anau to Lake Manapouri.
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In the Redcliff bar in Te Anau where the whole cast came for dinner one evening and John Rhys-Davies ...
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Some of the swords at the Nomads Safari shop in Queenstown. Do you know whose is whose?
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Some of the awesome figurines and a gorgeous Sauron helmet.
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No introduction necessary, my precious.
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More helmets.
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model helmets and one wizard's cap
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more awesome figurines. If you can tell me who is dead center on the top shelf, I'll give you a ...
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The Pillar of Kings location directly opposite from my Kawarau River Bungy jump.
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Near Twizel, where the Pelennor fields were located. The ridge just to the right of the dust cloud ...