Amidst the rolling farm fields of the Waikato region on New Zealand’s North Island, visitors will discover one of the country’s most enchanting and alluring tourist attractions, Hobbiton Village.
Famed as the mythical home of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, the stomping ground of the pipe-wielding wizard Gandalf and the clumsy Peregrin Took, this curious conglomeration of houses that now sits sprawled over a cluster of green hills close to the town of Matamata and just some 55 minutes north-west of Rotorua, is arguably the most important in the world for any fans of Tolkien’s famous trilogy of Sir Peter Jackson’s award-wining cinema.
However, even those with no penchant for the fairy-tale side of New Zealand are bound to be captivated by the surrounding area’s majestic scenery, Hobbiton’s own rustic beauty, and the additional visitor attractions that have grown up around this most sacred of Middle Earth sites.
Hobbiton Village
