Ringwaifs

The Glenorchy area is rich in LOTR sites, and, although we've seen them all before, we had to see them again, especially as we are this time equipped with GPS, and we're a little surer of looking at the right things.

Orthanc here

Orthanc viewshed

Nice scenery even if not in LOTR

Ford en route to Lothlorien

Sort of like Lothlorien

Ditto; southern (Gondwana) beech trees; most of Fiordland is a beech climax (as
opposed to seral) forest

Moving on down the lake to a cove on the 12-mile something or other...

The cliff from which Frodo and Sam witness the ambush of the Men of Harad
(and their oliphants) by Captain Faramir's Rangers of Gondor

Where Sam and Smeagol discussed recipes for coney stew