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The house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton as filmed in New Zealand. The protagonists of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, lived at Bag End, [d] a luxurious smial or hobbit-burrow, dug into The Hill on the north side of the town of Hobbiton in the Westfarthing. It was the most comfortable hobbit ...
New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu stood in for the Lonely Mountain in Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Hobbit. [ 10 ] The Lonely Mountain: Lair of Smaug the Dragon is a board game produced in 1985 by Iron Crown Enterprises , designed by Coleman Charlton, which features groups of adventurers, either Dwarves , Elves , Orcs or Men entering Smaug ...
The 1967 short animated film The Hobbit was the first film production of The Hobbit.It was directed by Gene Deitch in Czechoslovakia.American film producer William L. Snyder obtained the rights to the novel from the Tolkien estate very cheaply while it was still largely unknown, with the proviso that he produce a "full-colour film" by 30 June 1966, and immediately set about producing a feature ...
Puzzlewood has been used as a filming location for both film and television in recent years. Notable examples include: Films. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) [8] Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) [9] [10] Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) [9] [11] The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) [9] [10]
In 2010, the set was rebuilt in a more permanent fashion for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, [6] [9] filming for which began in 2011. [10] Ian McKellen reprised his role as Gandalf the Grey and was joined on the Hobbiton location by Martin Freeman , who remarked that the site "just looked like a place where people lived and where people worked".
A recent analysis of fossils belonging to Homo floresiensis found at the Mata Menge site on Flores supports the idea that the hobbits were a dwarfed version of the extinct species Homo erectus.
The music of The Hobbit film series was composed, produced and (in the case of the first film) orchestrated and conducted by Howard Shore, who scored all three The Lord of the Rings films. Recording sessions for the first film began on 20 August 2012, at Abbey Road Studios. [188] The second and third films were recorded in New Zealand. [189]
The Hobbit films were produced back to back, like The Lord of the Rings films. Principal photography for The Hobbit films began on 21 March 2011 in New Zealand [21] and ended on 6 July 2012, after 266 days of filming. [22] Pick-ups for An Unexpected Journey were filmed in July 2012 as well. [23]