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Home » Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Rings Filming Locations in New Zealand

Published: 18th September 2011 by Laurence Norah - 13 Comments

A Guide to the Tongariro Crossing and Climbing Mount Doom

The entire Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, as imagined by Peter Jackson in the film adaption of the books, serves as a highly effective tourism advert for New Zealand. Having seen all the films, and being a bit of a Tolkien fan, it was inevitable that New Zealand would make it onto my list […]

Wanders through Wellington

Published: 31st July 2011 by Laurence Norah - 4 Comments

A Guide to the Tongariro Crossing and Climbing Mount Doom

Having babbled on at some length as to the virtues of Dunedin, it is now time to turn my attention to my other favourite Kiwi city – which also happens to be the countries capital – the city of Wellington. Wellington is tucked away on the southern tip of the North island, and most travellers […]

The ongoing quest for middle earth

Published: 3rd July 2011 by Laurence Norah - 12 Comments

A Guide to the Tongariro Crossing and Climbing Mount Doom

I know I know. It’s starting to become a bit of an obsession. More so than the lighthouses. Even Vera is starting to think I’m getting a bit weird with all this Tolkien searching. But still. Since I’m in New Zealand, and I am a slight Lord of the Rings fan (addicted since I was […]

What Hobbiton taught me

Published: 23rd May 2011 by Laurence Norah - 8 Comments

A Guide to the Tongariro Crossing and Climbing Mount Doom

I recently visited the set of the Lord of the Rings filming location for Hobbiton in New Zealand. Sadly, that is about all I am allowed to actually write about the experience, due to a rather impressive looking piece of legal paper I had to sign that I’m pretty sure gives Peter Jackson the rights […]

Carrots, waterfalls and Gollum

Published: 3rd February 2011 by Laurence Norah - 6 Comments

A Guide to the Tongariro Crossing and Climbing Mount Doom

I have been doing my homework recently on this whole blogging thing, with particular focus on the mystical world of SEO. SEO, for those of you not in the know (turns out I can rhyme too), is the art of optimising a site so that it is friendly to search engines, and by search engines, […]

A Guide to the Tongariro Crossing and Climbing Mount Doom

Published: 3rd November 2010 by Laurence Norah - 61 Comments

A Guide to the Tongariro Crossing and Climbing Mount Doom

Ok, so I know it’s not really called Mount Doom. Hardy hobbits did not trudge many miles bearing the one ring of power and throw it into the fires of this mountain, which dominates the landscape here for miles around. Yes, it’s real name is a Maori word: Ngauruhoe (pronounced, Ngoh-roo-haw-e – see a full […]

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