Castle Combe

Castle Combe was heralded as the “prettiest village in England,” so of course I wanted to stop and take a look.

Seven Lord of the Rings locations

This is a super movie nerd post, that you might want to skip on past if you are not all that interested in Lord of the Rings movies.

Pelennor Fields was the largest set for filming in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Ian Hayman, the quirky farmer, led us through our next adventure on the shores of Lake Pukaki.

The clouds lifted enough to reveal a magnificent valley before us.

No Lord of the Rings movie tour would be complete without visiting the maker of the One Ring.

We took a ferry from the North Island to the South Island, and the weather changed in time for river kayaking.

Meeting the calligrapher, cartographer, and artist Daniel Reeve was a highlight of our tour.

Wētā Workshop was another of the promised tour visits that I had been looking forward to since I booked this trip!

Mt. Victoria is a beautiful park close to film studios in Wellington and thus a covenient setting for several scenes from Lord of the Rings.