Hobbiton

What is Hobbiton ~by Tejas

Named after the city in the Shire this is where the outside of the Shire in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit was filmed.  All the Hobbit holes are implanted into the ground on a hill.  You can see the party tree and the lake in Hobbiton.  The books were written in 1938 by a guy named J.R.R Tolkien and the movies filmed in 1998 and 1999 were directed by Peter Jackson.  For those of you who take the Lord of the Rings against Harry Potter is a battle the Lord of the Rings are older and have more adventure.  It all started when a helicopter that was carrying Peter Jackson over part of New Zealand was carrying him and he saw a beautiful place of land and decided to do his movie set here.  Usually people take down their set and leave the land open but the people who did Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit decided to keep it up and then people decided to make tours to tour where every thing was done and that’s what we did.  Now 650,000 people visit the set every year.  It’s a beautiful scene from the very top of the hill from Bag End (The Main Character house).  I’ve mentioned the word Hobbit a few times before.  A Hobbit is a character from the Lord of the Rings and is below 5’5”.  In real life you had to be between 3ft to 5’5” or else you weren’t aloud to be a hobbit.  A place over the bridge was called the Green Dragon Inn.  This is the bar of Hobbiton where the people would stay for a drink.  At the Green Dragon Inn my brothers had a non-alcoholic drink and my parents had a alcoholic cider.  I threw up on the car ride so I was only aloud to have water.  In the end against all movies and books Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit beats every thing and do it with greatness. Now that you are all up to date, Jovan will write about our trip to the set down below.

Visiting the Hobbiton Movie Set ~ by Jovan

We visited the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour in Rotorua. This is where the lord of the rings and Hobbit films were filmed. When we got to Hobbiton we went to the gift shop there were so many cool things that we got carried away from getting to our bus on time. We bought a Gandalf sitting statue for my dad’s desk, and my mom bought a Christmas ornament for our tree and got the famous sign that says: no admittance except for party business. Luckily, they gave us ticket to a seat on to the next bus. We saw all the hobbit holes and out most favorite one is Bilbos hole. We also saw the house of Sam Wise Gamgey and some of you might think that Froto in the Lord of The Rings films that he was the hero but no, Sam was the hero of the movies. And one thing that we learned was that when Sam hugs his daughter in the Return of The King film that is his real daughter.