Tag: Hobbiton

  • Beautiful Bag End

    In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. ~ JRR Tolkien, The…

  • Looking Towards Bag End

    Peace: The sound of birds chirping Children laughing And the wind in the trees I spent some time today going back through some of the photos I took in New Zealand earlier this year. I’ve been meaning to for a while as I took a lot of photos over there but the thought of going…

  • The Bumblebee

    Oh to be Like a small bumblebee; How different The world must seem I took this while we were in Hobbiton. It was a beautiful day and with all of the flowers blossoming there were lots of bumblebees buzzing around and I managed to snap this just as this bee paused and looked up. It…

  • Welcome to Hobbiton

    To live simply And eat and laugh With friends – A hobbit’s life is for me We visited Hobbiton, near Matamata while we were in New Zealand. It’s the movie set from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and has been carefully maintained since filming ended on The Hobbit films. It’s a…