Middle-earth may be mythical, but so too is New Zealand. The only difference is you can visit the latter.
When Sir Peter Jackson chose his home country to shoot “The Lord of the Rings” films, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s eponymous trilogy, few were surprised. With bubbling geyser fields, fern-filled rain forests, steaming-hot pools, foggy fjords, idyllic pastures, and rugged razorback mountains, New Zealand isn’t short on chimerical qualities…..
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