We visited Hobbiton
in 2008, when it was still in its neo-natal state from
LOTR, and again in 2014, after it had been rebuilt for
The Hobbit. And preserved for posterity. (Several posts:
http://roadeveron.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/hobbiton-1.html,
http://roadeveron.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/matamatahobbiton.html,
http://roadeveron.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/green-dragon-hobbiton.html). Confirmed Ringwaifs that we are, we could not miss seeing it once more. And taking more pix. Apologies for duplicates. At least they permit comparisons...about Hobbiton and about my psyche.
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It's end of summer here, yet everything is still in fullest bloom,
fruit ripening everywhere... |
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| There currently are 44 hobbit-holes--facades--in Hobbiton |
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| Every attempt to make it look a lived-in place |
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| Smoked fish |
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While the guide is not looking, Vicki enjoys a juicy ripe
raspberry |
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Every now and then you can look up at the gorgeous countryside
and remind yourself this is still a working farm, with 6,000
sheep, twice that number during lambing |
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| But also a movie set |
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| Tear-down; probably to become a hobbit high-rise or hotel |
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| Us at the baker's hole |
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| Looking across the lake to the Green Dragon |
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