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BeeBombadil · 12-12-2003, 06:48 PM

Sorry, forgot to tell you about Hobbiton. It's actually a sheep farm, located outside a small town called Matamata. There's not much to Matamata but the town has put up a small sign as you enter and leave saying that it is Hobbiton. <P>The farmer, whose land was scoped by Jackson from helicopter, got tired of having fans walk all over his fields, looking for Hobbiton and decided, since the wool and lamb industry is not doing so well at the moment, to offer a combo-sheep farm and hobbit tour. For $50NZ, you can go to his farm and see where Hobbiton was. It's enormously disappointing-looking, as all the planting is gone and all you can see of the burrows are plain dull plywood doors and windows...not very atmospheric. I passed. Still, I did bring home a brochure just for fun.<P>From what I've read, the farmer earned himself over $350,000NZ.

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12-12-2003, 06:48 PM	#6
BeeBombadil Animated Skeleton Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Berkeley, CA Posts: 32	Sorry, forgot to tell you about Hobbiton. It's actually a sheep farm, located outside a small town called Matamata. There's not much to Matamata but the town has put up a small sign as you enter and leave saying that it is Hobbiton. <P>The farmer, whose land was scoped by Jackson from helicopter, got tired of having fans walk all over his fields, looking for Hobbiton and decided, since the wool and lamb industry is not doing so well at the moment, to offer a combo-sheep farm and hobbit tour. For $50NZ, you can go to his farm and see where Hobbiton was. It's enormously disappointing-looking, as all the planting is gone and all you can see of the burrows are plain dull plywood doors and windows...not very atmospheric. I passed. Still, I did bring home a brochure just for fun.<P>From what I've read, the farmer earned himself over $350,000NZ.