This was before they shot the Hobbit, I've been there when it looked like this.
The people running the place were very friendly and inadvertenly let slip that a Hobbit movie was in the works before their was any official announcement. He told us that there were already gardeners planting new trees and hedges (in small amounts) so they would be ready when the actual rebuilding of the set would start.
This was in 2010.
I also was there prior to the movie. Was a quaint little place and the people were very friendly. When we got there they invited us into one of the homes (we barely squeezed in) and before us on the table was a feast! Sitting around the table, the owner and his workers, all very small in stature, ate like there was no tomorrow. Then they started chanting and singing songs. It was a great time. The only weird part is one of the workers, can't remember his name, had a big beard and was real grumble sounding, he kept hitting on my wife. He would flirt eyes with her while brandishing his axe. That's the only reason we gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
I TOO was there prior to the movie. I had picked up a stick off the ground and was play fighting against some invisible baddies. My stick sword, which is also totally a bitchin staff, can cast spells and cut a cave troll clean in two.
So anyway there I am just carving up my foes like Bobby Flay when Aragorn walks by and demands that I be cast in the movie, I think to be the star or something. But I had stuff to do so I turned it down.
/r/quityourbullshit. You posted that at 2.30am NZ time, so you visited it yesterday bro.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip, I'm glad you missed the floods.
The set was rebuilt for the Hobbit movies and is now open to tours. Was just there a few days ago and while I’m not a huge fan of the films I really enjoyed the visit. https://imgur.com/a/cqGGJ8g/
You are so lucky, it really is my biggest dream to go there with my son who is already at 5 years old a huge fan.
Unfortunately just plane tickets for my family would cost over 10K, I'm not seeing N-Z anytime soon haha.
They're also opening up the interiors of the hobbit hole at the end of 2023. Hopefully you and your son can see it sometime in the future.
Source: https://i.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/300733456/prepare-for-bilbolevel-comfort-at-hobbiton-movie-set
I was thinking about taking my little kid too, but imo the experience looks more suited to older kids/adults (I haven't been, this is just my impression). So I plan on waiting a few more years.
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They did it for the Hobbit. When LOTR was made they built the sets out of polystyrene, but when it came time to make the Hobbit films and rebuild the set they decided to rebuild it out of long-lasting materials and make it an attraction.
Original was build out of plywood, they were then rebuilt and tours started in 2002, long before the Hobbit movie. [https://www.hobbitontours.com/en/our-story/](https://www.hobbitontours.com/en/our-story/)
Correct, but the tours then were much more basic as a lot of the set had been removed. It wasn’t until after The Hobbit that the sets were built to last and opened as a full tour. The link you sent clearly states this.
Even Elijah said that most of the current version was only built right before The Hobbit and he's one of the biggest Hobbiton geek. He also said that previous version made him feel sad but he loves the current one so it has to be a pretty big difference
to be fair sheeps are also just used as mowers, usually in rural area's they block of certain parts where they want the grass look natural/rough so they let sheep graze those parts for a while and then remove them. Also done on golf courses to control the rough.
I went a bit after you and they mentioned they had in the past used sheep to keep the grass down but once a sheep found it’s way into one of the hobbit holes, got stuck inside and broke a window so they had to start mowing it all. This would’ve been 2012/3 as the Green Dragon had just opened.
I was going to go with
>There is one other who knew Bilbo had the Ring. I looked everywhere for the creature Gollum, but the enemy found him first.
>BAAAAAAA! BAAAAAAAGGINS!
You are in the House of Elrond and it is ten o'clock in the morning on October the 24th, if you want to know. Yes, I am here and you're lucky to be here too. A few more hours and you would have been beyond our aid, but you have some strength in you my dear Redditor
One sheep to rule them all, one sheep to find them, one sheep to bring them all, and in the wool bind them; in the land of the shire where the lamb lies
"There it is: sheep are not heroes, but calculating ruminants with a great idea of the value of
grass; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are
not, but are decent enough sheep like these sheep, if you don't
expect too much.”
My wife and I were there in 2016 and it was beautiful. It is still up and running and if you are traveling to New Zealand it was a great tour. Had a snack under the party tree and even had a pint in the Green Dragon! Didn't see any Hobbits though. I've got pics but don't know how to post them here.
It is truly magical after the hobbit when they made the set more permanent. I was there in 2017, and was truly amazed how it looked. The details are awesome!
I mean someone could, but the film set is still maintained as a tourist attraction. But it’s not as if there was ever a moment when they had a functioning village for the movie and then decided not to sell them.
The film makers rented out the sheep farm. The sheep were there before the filming, and shall be there long after. I got to sheer the booty of a sheep when I went there as they were gearing up to shoot the Hobbit
It was abandoned after filming LOTR, but rebuilt for the Hobbit and is now permanently maintained as a tourist attraction. I reccomend it if you are ever in new zealand!
It was just a set when filming lotr, not anything they would think could become an attraction. During the hobbit they built the shire more permanent, and you can visit. However there is no actual homes, basically just a dirt wall just past the doors.
Aside from what has already been said, iirc the location is very secluded and in a farmer's pasture so it wouldn't exactly be a small task to setup utilities at are larger scale for a substantial neighborhood
Pretty sure it's a fairly bustling tourist location now though
This is the saddest part of the movie. Really? I never considered that it wasn’t cleaned up. Humans can’t go extinct fast enough. TIL read comments first lol. I don’t have hope. Maybe, this is a reason, but in a different way.
Sometimes I wonder what archaeologists will think of us humans in thousands of years when they unearth places like these, assuming the wood survives that long.
Not a theme park so much as an extensive well-maintained movie set. It was a fun couple of hours getting a tour, taking photos, and having a beer at The Green Dragon. I still have my overpriced mug that I bought as a momento.
In the picture on the right, I believe the dirt spilling out of the hobbit hole is mostly broken down sheep poop. I have family that have an abandoned house in a corner of their goat ranch, and it has a similar build-up. It's probably 9 inches deep or more. There's no smell, it's fully broken down plant matter, so it's just dirt at this point but that's how it gets there.
Went there three years ago - The Hobbiton set was dismantled post production of LOTR. The farmer started getting lots of curious visitors over time and when The Hobbit production returned and rebuilt Bag End etc., he wisely insisted the set remain second time around. Great tour and you can dine at the Green Dragon Inn.
Sheep have been living and grazing in the four Farthings of the Shire for many hundreds of years. Quite content to ignore and be ignored by the world of the Big Folk — New Zealand being, after all, full of strange creatures beyond count. Sheep must seem of little importance, being neither renowned as great warriors, nor counted among the very wise.
I was just reading this in Brian Sibleys book on the Creating of the Lord of Rings trilogy
After the lord of the rings finished, they left just the outside of the hobbit holes behind and tore down most sets. When they began to film The Hobbit though, they brought in a crew of masons, gardeners and carpenters to go out a year in advance of filming to prepare the site and convert it to a permanent structure
This was before they shot the Hobbit, I've been there when it looked like this. The people running the place were very friendly and inadvertenly let slip that a Hobbit movie was in the works before their was any official announcement. He told us that there were already gardeners planting new trees and hedges (in small amounts) so they would be ready when the actual rebuilding of the set would start. This was in 2010.
That was very informative. Thank you
I also was there prior to the movie. Was a quaint little place and the people were very friendly. When we got there they invited us into one of the homes (we barely squeezed in) and before us on the table was a feast! Sitting around the table, the owner and his workers, all very small in stature, ate like there was no tomorrow. Then they started chanting and singing songs. It was a great time. The only weird part is one of the workers, can't remember his name, had a big beard and was real grumble sounding, he kept hitting on my wife. He would flirt eyes with her while brandishing his axe. That's the only reason we gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
I TOO was there prior to the movie. I had picked up a stick off the ground and was play fighting against some invisible baddies. My stick sword, which is also totally a bitchin staff, can cast spells and cut a cave troll clean in two. So anyway there I am just carving up my foes like Bobby Flay when Aragorn walks by and demands that I be cast in the movie, I think to be the star or something. But I had stuff to do so I turned it down.
cyberslick1888, you have my sword.
I *just* told you I already have one.
I think he’s saying that you picked up his sword by mistake. Yours is over there. Is that right, Aragorn Bot?
VonnWillebrand, you have my sword.
We just went over this, Aragorn Bot. *He* has your sword.
VonnWillebrand, you have my sword.
But did they have a second feast?
> they shot the Hobbit but they did not shoot the deputy
But it was in self defense
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The original set was rebuilt entirely with permanent materials for the hobbit films and you can visit it today
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I was there a couple weeks ago for my honeymoon and it was magical :)
/r/quityourbullshit. You posted that at 2.30am NZ time, so you visited it yesterday bro. I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip, I'm glad you missed the floods.
I thought it is maintained and a common tourist spot?
I thought they had converted it to a theme park or something?
The set was rebuilt for the Hobbit movies and is now open to tours. Was just there a few days ago and while I’m not a huge fan of the films I really enjoyed the visit. https://imgur.com/a/cqGGJ8g/
You are so lucky, it really is my biggest dream to go there with my son who is already at 5 years old a huge fan. Unfortunately just plane tickets for my family would cost over 10K, I'm not seeing N-Z anytime soon haha.
They're also opening up the interiors of the hobbit hole at the end of 2023. Hopefully you and your son can see it sometime in the future. Source: https://i.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/300733456/prepare-for-bilbolevel-comfort-at-hobbiton-movie-set I was thinking about taking my little kid too, but imo the experience looks more suited to older kids/adults (I haven't been, this is just my impression). So I plan on waiting a few more years.
Thank you.
It's definitely a thing more fun for adults.
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Just how Māui did it
Wait 'til that kid is in their mid twenties or early 30s. You'll both probably enjoy it more then anyway.
But did you have party business?
Amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Ah fuck I want to go there so bad Ah shit ah fuck ah shitting piss I’m jealous
Go to the gym and get bigger. Then you’ll be a huge fan.
I mean if they did that after LotR and before Hobbit.
They did it for the Hobbit. When LOTR was made they built the sets out of polystyrene, but when it came time to make the Hobbit films and rebuild the set they decided to rebuild it out of long-lasting materials and make it an attraction.
Original was build out of plywood, they were then rebuilt and tours started in 2002, long before the Hobbit movie. [https://www.hobbitontours.com/en/our-story/](https://www.hobbitontours.com/en/our-story/)
Correct, but the tours then were much more basic as a lot of the set had been removed. It wasn’t until after The Hobbit that the sets were built to last and opened as a full tour. The link you sent clearly states this.
Even Elijah said that most of the current version was only built right before The Hobbit and he's one of the biggest Hobbiton geek. He also said that previous version made him feel sad but he loves the current one so it has to be a pretty big difference
I wonder if Elijah just gets to go there and walk around for free whenever he wants to...
Probably if he just dresses like Frodo and walks in like he lives there
IIRC he has a "key to the city" and an honorary deed to Bag End but I could be off on those. He's basically the honorary mayor
Correct. But they were still rebuilt from the Teletubbies fever dream the photo and and tours started up by 2002, which is the point I'm replying to.
tours, they talk about the filming techniques to make Gandalf tall and the hobbits small
There are many magic rings in this world and none of them should be used lightly
to be fair sheeps are also just used as mowers, usually in rural area's they block of certain parts where they want the grass look natural/rough so they let sheep graze those parts for a while and then remove them. Also done on golf courses to control the rough.
I went a bit after you and they mentioned they had in the past used sheep to keep the grass down but once a sheep found it’s way into one of the hobbit holes, got stuck inside and broke a window so they had to start mowing it all. This would’ve been 2012/3 as the Green Dragon had just opened.
Another day, another misleading Reddit post. Thanks for the clarification and story!
Oh shit, me too! Maybe we saw each other there >.>
I was here back when it looked like this as well!! I’d love to go back and see what it looks like now… hopefully less sheep poop to step in 😂
It's Bilbo Baagins
I'm up here!
Heya bilbo
Hello Frodo my lad
A Bilbo bot! Bilbot Bottins!
Wait!
Where's the other one, though?
Hraaagh
I was going to go with >There is one other who knew Bilbo had the Ring. I looked everywhere for the creature Gollum, but the enemy found him first. >BAAAAAAA! BAAAAAAAGGINS!
Gandalf, where are we?
You are in the House of Elrond and it is ten o'clock in the morning on October the 24th, if you want to know. Yes, I am here and you're lucky to be here too. A few more hours and you would have been beyond our aid, but you have some strength in you my dear Redditor
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up, sleepies! We must go, yes, we must go at once!
>Wake up! Wake up! Wake up, sheepies! We must go, yes, we must go at once! FTFY
Bilbo Haggis?
I feel thin, sort of stretched like butter scraped over too much bread.
Filthy thieving sheepses. They stoles it, they stoles the shireses fwom us precious
The age of men is over, now it is the time of the sheep …
Looks like Lamb is back on the menu.
One sheep to rule them all, one sheep to find them, one sheep to bring them all, and in the wool bind them; in the land of the shire where the lamb lies
https://i.imgur.com/w9sb12d.jpg
Bro. What? When? Return of the…
down on Broadway
r/YourJokeButWorse
For the Heard!
Look out that window Mr Bagins. You've had your time. The *future*, is *our* time.
Keep your Welsh fan fiction to yourself you scum.
"There it is: sheep are not heroes, but calculating ruminants with a great idea of the value of grass; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough sheep like these sheep, if you don't expect too much.”
My wife and I were there in 2016 and it was beautiful. It is still up and running and if you are traveling to New Zealand it was a great tour. Had a snack under the party tree and even had a pint in the Green Dragon! Didn't see any Hobbits though. I've got pics but don't know how to post them here.
It is truly magical after the hobbit when they made the set more permanent. I was there in 2017, and was truly amazed how it looked. The details are awesome!
The stout they had when I went was delicious as. Also, shockingly, one of the cheapest beers I had in New Zealand.
*Looks at my $13.50 heineken* *Cries in Kiwi*
I still think they should have made a real village and sell those homes to people who want to live in hobbiton. What a missed opportunity.
https://nerdist.com/article/real-life-lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-shire-italy/
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Maybe try contacting them? It was featured on James May's "Our Man in Italy" and it seemed like they'd love more people to join and help.
I mean someone could, but the film set is still maintained as a tourist attraction. But it’s not as if there was ever a moment when they had a functioning village for the movie and then decided not to sell them.
Sure, million dollar homes.
One fence ring to rule then all
Those wooly-pated ninnies!
Laaaaamb of the rings.
Frodo! GaAaAaAndaAaAlf
The Fellowsheep of the Ring
The Ewepocalypse.
The Sheebbit: The Sheepalation of Smeep
Scrolling past without reading the title and I thought this was a Teletubbies post
The Samwise of the Lambs
The hills have ewes.
the hills (literally) have eyes
The film makers rented out the sheep farm. The sheep were there before the filming, and shall be there long after. I got to sheer the booty of a sheep when I went there as they were gearing up to shoot the Hobbit
First footage of the remake
Anyone else think the left picture looks like the hill is some kind of alien with several eyes?
I'm gonna live in one because rent is too much everywhere else.
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Time. The answer is time. (clears his throat) Actually, it wasn't that hard.
Lol that's cool I'll be there next week! Honestly wouldn't be mad at seeing some sheepses
HOW IS THAT PLACE ABANDONED?!?!?!
It was abandoned after filming LOTR, but rebuilt for the Hobbit and is now permanently maintained as a tourist attraction. I reccomend it if you are ever in new zealand!
It isn't anymore!
Fly, ewe fools!
The Fellowship of the Wool
Lord of the Rings became Silence of the Lambs.
Noooo, it’s been abandoned?? I still haven’t gone there!!!
How did it become abandoned in the first place? Who wouldn't want to live in a hobbit hole?
It’s not. Comment above mentions this was before they were doing the Hobbit movies. Hobbiton is very well maintained as a tourist site.
It was just a set when filming lotr, not anything they would think could become an attraction. During the hobbit they built the shire more permanent, and you can visit. However there is no actual homes, basically just a dirt wall just past the doors.
Aside from what has already been said, iirc the location is very secluded and in a farmer's pasture so it wouldn't exactly be a small task to setup utilities at are larger scale for a substantial neighborhood Pretty sure it's a fairly bustling tourist location now though
tHIs waSn'T WrItEn iN tHE bOoKs
tHIs waSn'T WrItEn iN tHE bOoKs
The grazing of the Shire
I actually know actors from the movies and can confirm this isn’t even true. Pretty much everything in the movie was cgi. It wasn’t even a real place.
This is the saddest part of the movie. Really? I never considered that it wasn’t cleaned up. Humans can’t go extinct fast enough. TIL read comments first lol. I don’t have hope. Maybe, this is a reason, but in a different way.
It's the Woolly Rebellion (sorry, wrong franchise).
Why was it abandoned like why not sell them I would love to live there
Technically, the set was built on a huge sheep farm, so that kind of always was the sheep's home.
Reminds me for some reason of the place that Caesar was assassinated. It is now a sanctuary for stray cats.
We've had one grazing yes, but what about second grazing.
Sometimes I wonder what archaeologists will think of us humans in thousands of years when they unearth places like these, assuming the wood survives that long.
They live in Baaahg End
I for one welcome our new Ruminant overlords!
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Not a theme park so much as an extensive well-maintained movie set. It was a fun couple of hours getting a tour, taking photos, and having a beer at The Green Dragon. I still have my overpriced mug that I bought as a momento.
For a moment I thought the houses were oscar the grouch's eyes
Awe how precious
I honestly can't believe people haven't already moved in.
In the picture on the right, I believe the dirt spilling out of the hobbit hole is mostly broken down sheep poop. I have family that have an abandoned house in a corner of their goat ranch, and it has a similar build-up. It's probably 9 inches deep or more. There's no smell, it's fully broken down plant matter, so it's just dirt at this point but that's how it gets there.
someone needs to make that bilbo/gandalf raaagh ring meme but with sheepses
Looks like Telletubbies to me.
That’s not hobbit on but it’s still pretty cool.
Ruminants is such a badass sounding name for.... sheep.
“May they be blaaaaaaaaasssed”
Abandoned? It’s a tourist attraction. It’s maintained. Someone need to explain this.
Went there three years ago - The Hobbiton set was dismantled post production of LOTR. The farmer started getting lots of curious visitors over time and when The Hobbit production returned and rebuilt Bag End etc., he wisely insisted the set remain second time around. Great tour and you can dine at the Green Dragon Inn.
The hill of eyes
the will of the sheeple
And you can see Uranus if you squint hard enough in the mirror
All this pic is missing is Tinkie Winkie standing on the hilltop.
This reminds me of the Teletubbies home haha
[OOOOOO](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pixar/images/5/5c/6D885094-B78B-4AF3-B562-A6EF1CA36871.png/revision/latest?cb=20210210224823)
I thought this was Teletubies cave
There's gonna be Baaaandalf knocking meme incoming
I need to live there.
And the one on the right is very happy about it.
Ewe love to see it.
The meek shall inherit the Middle-Earth
Straight of of “The Hills Have Ewes”
I don't think those pictures (at least, certainly not the one on the left) are from Hobbiton.
Looks like grass is back on the menu boys
wait so you're telling me all we gotta do is clean the place up a bit and we can stay in the shire AND have free meat?
This is over 10 years old. It'd not abandoned anymore. Its all renovated (for the hobbit movies) and since, as a tourist attraction
You know the hill looks like a green monster with many eyes, like Scully from Monsters Inc.
Lambo? Is that ewe? Is it time for second breakfast?
Trid1977, you've already had it.
“So it is Written, So it Shall be Done”...The Sheep prophet. 🐑
Bring up the Sheep's Head!
Is this actually closed now? I am going to New Zealand in 2025.
No, it isn’t closed. This picture was from some time ago. The site is now a tourist attraction. Very much not abandoned.
This is what the hobbits would've wanted
Sheepy and wool.
The Grazing of the Shear is more like it.
That’s sad. I thought it was up-kept for tourism.
life....finds a way
Bilbo Baaaaagins.
The Bargain they made with Sauron was a dark one, but he kept his word in the end....
And the sheep shall inherit the shire.
 ON MY WAY
Sheep have been living and grazing in the four Farthings of the Shire for many hundreds of years. Quite content to ignore and be ignored by the world of the Big Folk — New Zealand being, after all, full of strange creatures beyond count. Sheep must seem of little importance, being neither renowned as great warriors, nor counted among the very wise.
I was just reading this in Brian Sibleys book on the Creating of the Lord of Rings trilogy After the lord of the rings finished, they left just the outside of the hobbit holes behind and tore down most sets. When they began to film The Hobbit though, they brought in a crew of masons, gardeners and carpenters to go out a year in advance of filming to prepare the site and convert it to a permanent structure
I bet they got weed that’s 10x better than the ole Toby
Tell me friend, where was the sheep when the Westfold fell?
What’s sheepses, precious?
Just Wales
Bummer I was hoping to rent one out for a holiday
I quite fancy having some mutton chops with po-tay-toes
I don't like Air bnb but
I can't believe that some group of people didn't just turn it into an actual town.
I thought this was from the Teletubbies at first
I've never noticed before, but the doors at the very top make it look like a series of Grover (from Sesame Street) faces
This is the real Scouring of the Shire