ShirleyNZandOrangs: LOR stuff - Hobbiton to Bree, Weathertop & Rivendell

I had planned to carry on with what happened at Kuching & the Longhouse, but due to leaving my SD cards by the telly, I have no photos to illustrate, so here's some stuff IRO my LOR location adventure.

No 1 is a statue of Frodo taken at the Weta Cave.

No 2 is a still of me as Frodo - with pipe & a bloke (I'd need to look at the blog for that day to get his name!) as Sam. It is the exact tree used, & as I said at the time, I'd never have found it without Ted. There's also a vid of it which Ted took.

This one is the actual POV from the film. Ted showed us the scene on his laptop, & if you pause yours, you'll see the 2 broken, pointy branches on the top left & the other trees in the shot

This is me hanging over the 'Shortcut to Mushrooms' drop

All these were taken at Mt Victoria at Wellington while I was on the LOR tour with Ted - I've not got round to looking for easter egss yet, though

Ted got us all to pose in the exact positions, & was complete with broken carrot & poo props!
He even gave me a leaf to put in my mouth!

This is Ted standing more or less in front of the "Mushrooms" line

& this is the drop where they built the tree for the Hobbits to hide from the Nazgul. The POV of the Nazgul is the next. If you look behind the horse, you can see these trees in the background

There's a road at the top of the hill & we got out of the minibus & walked down. I turned round & immediately recognised the shot & took a photo. I've no idea how it happened, but the camera made it look like it was back lit by moonlight, just like the film - weird, but cool.

After we'd done the other shots, we came back & Ted turned 3 people into a Nazgul on his horse - clever!

After Aragorn had got them all organised at Bree, they set off for Rivendell via Weathertop. This is a photo of hobbits & Bill from Weta Cave.
Gandalf hadn't shown up at Bree, but he'd been imprisoned at Orthanc.

This photo, taken at Harcourt Park shows

the path where
Gandalf rode up to Orthanc. If you look closely, you can still see where the took up the grass to make the path - it's a darker green line, just to the R of the tree in the middle. And it took me ages to find it!

Meanwhile the Nazgul were attacking at Weathertop. This is the POV when Frodo looked down & saw them approaching. It's also the POV from Dunharrow when Aragorn & Eomer were looking down at the muster below.

This is all that's left of Rivendell, apart from the