We visted some of the filming sites for the Lord of the Rings trilogy with Pure Glenorchy Lord of the Rings Tours, spending the morning in the area around Queenstown and Arrowtown and the afternoon with a larger group in the areas around Glenorchy and Paradise at the head of Lake Wakatipu.
While somewhat uncharacteristically touristy for us, this was fun. The knowledgeable guides compared individual frames from the movies with the actual filming sites as they appear now, showed copies of the original scripts, shared anecdotes about the filming, and brought along some costumes and props for us to play with.
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