Another visit to Hobbiton

A must-do item while Jeanne's sister Dianne was visiting us in March, was to tour Hobbiton. To get her ready to see it, we showed her the entire Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit series of films. 

We also probably bored her silly by giving her innumerable comments on how the movies either faithfully followed or seriously diverged from the books at any given point. 

The morning of our trip, we arose to find a rainy day in store for us in Henderson. Jeanne did some research and found that there was some chance that the weather in Hobbiton might be a little better. We hoped for the best as we piled into the car, but had our rain gear stowed. 

As we traveled, we did indeed see the sky slowly improving, and by the time we arrived in Middle Earth, it was as fine as any day ever seen in the Shire. 

Hobbiton is the kind of place that urges a photo to be taken about every third step, and possibly, more often than that. I'll whittle down the massive collection of them and show you a resonable 20 or so. 

I hope you enjoy them. 

 When Gandalf arrives for Bilbo's birthday, he travels through this lane. 

 We learned that the smallest Hobbit houses where built at 60% scale.  You'll see one later that is a full scale.  That was so that the actors playing hobbits, dwarves and Gandalf, could all appear to be the size they needed to be. 

 I managed to get everybody in this one.

What do you know? It works!

Think of it. This could be the same ground water that feeds the Brandywine. We all had a drink. I wish I had brough a bottle to fill. 

There's the Green Dragon.

 This is a full sized model.

Another small door. 

(spoiler alert) The final scene in the last movie ends as Sam closes this door.  

 At the Green Dragon.

 We adults enjoyed a beer, the boys, ginger beer (non-alcoholic of course) and we all shared a small beef pie. It's time to move on.

 One last look. That's Bilbo Baggin's house up there under the oak.

It's time that we get some lunch.       -djf