For all you LOTR fans. Heres a site with the exact filming locations.

You can view them in either Google earth, or Google maps.

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I saw it on RTL travel once and ever since I've been dying to visit NZ (and the land of OZZZZ and Tasmania)

Rock, you're so lucky to be living there.
I love it.

Hey Rocky! I can see your shire!

Cool! I'd love to visit New Zealand sometime and see some of God's wondrous handiwork there. It's certainly a very beautiful country.
I've seen the Lord of the Rings movies and I read "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" books- but wow, I think it'd be really cool to read the books in New Zealand and watch the action come to life in the scenery!

The LOTR trilogy is on tv on TNT this weekend, starting tonight at 8PM, for any who like to see it

Also of interest, the prequel to "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit", may finally be seeing a live action movie adaptation soon! I've recently heard that New Line and Peter Jackson are trying to resolve their differences and work on getting this movie made! That would be excellent!!! I've been waiting for quite a while to see this one get made!
http://www.mania.com/55690.html
You can find updates on TheOneRing.net whenever more news happens.
(It's an excellent J.R.R. Tolkien site in general- check it out)