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IN SEARCH OF HOBBITS
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Shire from The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings lives
| STORY & PHOTOGRAPHY BY RON JAMES |
ecently when my wife Mary and I were planning shore Lord of the Rings movies,” she explained, holding up her iPad with a
excursions for an upcoming Celebrity cruise around New photo of a Hobbit home.
Zealand and Australia, she asked if I would be interested That got my attention. I’m a huge fan of J.R.R Tolkien’s books and
Rin visiting a place called Hobbiton while we were in port Jackson’s movies about them. But Hobbiton was news to me. With a
at Tauranga, New Zealand. I said I had never heard of it. “It’s the set couple clicks, we added a visit to our ever-growing itinerary Down
where Peter Jackson filmed the Shire scenes from the Hobbit and Under.
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