"New Zealand is gorgeous! I don't really think that there's anywhere else we could have filmed this movie unless we had travelled to lots of different places around the world. Every element of Middle-earth is contained in New Zealand. It's perfect. There are so many different geographical landscapes: mountains, woods, marshes, desert areas, rolling hills - and the sea. Everything, in fact described in the Lord of the Rings."
Elijah Wood.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Hobbit Travel - New Zealand: Two Islands
Kia ora, (Middle-earthspeak for Greetings or G'day)
Hobbit Traveler will explore Middle Earth's (oops, New Zealand's) two Islands - if you don’t count the other ones - sorry to those Kiwis in Steward Island and the other big “Island’ called Aussie (short for Australia!). Whisper, we may drop into the 'other' islands along the way.
The Island that looks like a bird flying away is called the ‘North’ Island. It's flying away from the one that looks like a log, also
known as the ‘South’ Island (often referred to by its inhabitants as “the Mainland”.) It, the Island that is, wants to get away from the bitter cold that is harbored in the South Island. BRRRRRRR- but hey that’s only in the winter – and the North Island winter weather is gorgeous – well mostly..
Middle Earth is an alternative name for New Zealand and another is Aotearoa; meaning 'Long White Cloud' (from the indigenous Maori Kiwis: Ao-tea-roa = Cloud-white-long). Hobbit travel will explore the mystique of Aotearoa’s Polynesian heritage which adds a mysterious magical quality to the insider secrets which will be unearthed along the way.
Hobbit Traveler will explore Middle Earth's (oops, New Zealand's) two Islands - if you don’t count the other ones - sorry to those Kiwis in Steward Island and the other big “Island’ called Aussie (short for Australia!). Whisper, we may drop into the 'other' islands along the way.
The Island that looks like a bird flying away is called the ‘North’ Island. It's flying away from the one that looks like a log, also
known as the ‘South’ Island (often referred to by its inhabitants as “the Mainland”.) It, the Island that is, wants to get away from the bitter cold that is harbored in the South Island. BRRRRRRR- but hey that’s only in the winter – and the North Island winter weather is gorgeous – well mostly..
Middle Earth is an alternative name for New Zealand and another is Aotearoa; meaning 'Long White Cloud' (from the indigenous Maori Kiwis: Ao-tea-roa = Cloud-white-long). Hobbit travel will explore the mystique of Aotearoa’s Polynesian heritage which adds a mysterious magical quality to the insider secrets which will be unearthed along the way.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Hobbit Travel
HOW GREAT IS...
NEW ZEALAND?!
G'day,
I look at just how much I love New Zealand, even though I’ve never been! How can I resist its mountain majesty, the majestic lakes and the majesteral... .sheep...um...and mountains! - real Hobbit travel.
Boromir, Pippin, Sam, Legolas, Aragorn
I knew next to nothing about New Zealand until I saw Lord of the Rings. I read the books first actually, but they didn’t really do the place justice. Not until I saw the movie did I understand that if I wanted to see what it was like to be a Hobbit, then New Zealand was the place for me. Really, before Lord of the Rings, the only exposure we Americans had about New Zealand was the statistic about sheep to people and the fact that there were these birds called Kiwis that couldn’t fly, like small ostriches and that the people were called Kiwis and that somehow they also had fruit called Kiwis. Which is named after which we never knew.
So...Lord of the Rings, it was amazing! Then other things came out about New Zealand, like that they liked Rugby, which is nice, and of course the seven legged sheep.
So, join me, shall you, as we explore how much I would like to see this mythical land “Down Under, and just to the Right” as they say. It sure will be fun to see! - but first lets talk a little - more next time on planning for the Hobbit travel wanderings around Middle-earth.
NEW ZEALAND?!
G'day,
I look at just how much I love New Zealand, even though I’ve never been! How can I resist its mountain majesty, the majestic lakes and the majesteral... .sheep...um...and mountains! - real Hobbit travel.
Boromir, Pippin, Sam, Legolas, Aragorn
I knew next to nothing about New Zealand until I saw Lord of the Rings. I read the books first actually, but they didn’t really do the place justice. Not until I saw the movie did I understand that if I wanted to see what it was like to be a Hobbit, then New Zealand was the place for me. Really, before Lord of the Rings, the only exposure we Americans had about New Zealand was the statistic about sheep to people and the fact that there were these birds called Kiwis that couldn’t fly, like small ostriches and that the people were called Kiwis and that somehow they also had fruit called Kiwis. Which is named after which we never knew.
So...Lord of the Rings, it was amazing! Then other things came out about New Zealand, like that they liked Rugby, which is nice, and of course the seven legged sheep.
So, join me, shall you, as we explore how much I would like to see this mythical land “Down Under, and just to the Right” as they say. It sure will be fun to see! - but first lets talk a little - more next time on planning for the Hobbit travel wanderings around Middle-earth.
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