5508 x 3563 px | 46,6 x 30,2 cm | 18,4 x 11,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
11 giugno 2017
Ubicazione:
Hobbiton Movie Set, Matamata, Waikato, New Zealand
Altre informazioni:
The Green Dragon Inn was a popular inn of Bywater and was frequented by Hobbits from both Bywater itself and the neighboring settlement of Hobbiton. The Hobbit Frodo Baggins regularly visited the inn as did his friends Sam Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. Throughout the movie and the book, the inn is referenced to as a "great" place. One such example in when Merry and Pippin refer to the Inn in The Return of the King (film) when they are singing on a table at Edoras. Specifically, they sing "The Green Dragon. The Hobbiton Movie Set was a significant location used for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit film series. It is situated on a family run farm about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Hinuera and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Matamata, in Waikato, New Zealand, and is now a Tolkien tourism destination, offering guided tours of the set. The underlying geology of the area is that of the Hinuera Formation, a group of alluvial silts, sands and gravels laid down in the last glacial period. Originally largely marshland, it was transformed in the 19th century by a large-scale drainage scheme and is now fertile agricultural land that is also a major racehorse breeding area. The Alexander family moved to the 500-hectare (1, 200-acre) property of rolling grassland where the set is located in 1978. Since then it has been a livestock ranch with 13, 000 sheep and 300 Angus beef cattle. The main sources of income from farming are mutton, wool and beef. When Peter Jackson began to look for suitable locations for The Lord of the Rings film series he first saw the Alexander Farm during an aerial search in 1998 and concluded that the area was "like a slice of ancient England". Set Decorator Alan Lee commented that the location's hills "looked as though Hobbits had already begun excavations". Part of the site has a lake with a long arm that could double as a river.
