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TIL: PJ turned the basement of his home into a livable replica of Bag End

MatthewJer18
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Jun 29 2015, 11:58am

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http://www.theguardian.com/...-bilbos-hobbit-house


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“His eye for detail was such that we had to build it right down to the feather, so everything is exactly the same as the movie – but it’s livable,” Bino Smith said, reported Stuff. “There’s nothing like it in this world. People can stay there.”

Jackson bought a two-storey 1930s mansion in Masterton, New Zealand, and employed the same team who worked on the film to turn one floor into an ode to JRR Tolkien’s work, using the same set.

“Bag End is underground,” Smith said. “You have to go under tunnels to get to it. You got the house, then you go down to the wine cellar and you pull a bottle, and it opens up a door, then you step out a look down this corridor – about 35 metres, we had to create it, then you go down one part, then there’s a skeleton and some bodies, then you come out to a mock torture chamber, then you pull a book in a bookcase and the bookcase opens, and you walk into Bag End.”



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Jun 29 2015, 4:56pm

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as this is being discussed a few threads below already.

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