Top 3 Hobbit hikes

January 2013

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From Mordor to the Lonely Mountains – Tongariro National Park is the Middle Earth location. Photo: www.derekmorrison.co.nz
When J. R. R. Tolkien first began writing The Hobbit in 1930, do you think he envisaged an entire country wrapping its marketing campaign around it? Perhaps if he’d had the chance to explore the wild parts of New Zealand that may just have been the inspiration to bring Bilbo Baggins to life. Here are […]
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