Hobbit filming locations list

I'm in Wellington and planning on heading to the South Island after Christmas to do about 8 weeks of travelling.
Obviously I'm going to do some of the LOTR tours but what I'd also like to do is my own unofficial Hobbit filming locations tour.
Can you guys help me out with a list of confirmed or rumoured locations?
Pelorus Bridge will be 1st but where next?
I'm also planning on doing the North Island after that so if anyone knows of locations up here that would be well received too. Thanks :)
 
There have been a number of postings re. locations and approx. shooting schedules.
Perhaps they could all go into a sticky?
 
.....definitely a sticky should be put up, I've been asking for location lists etc. for ages!!!!


:)
 
the Admins can discuss whether we add a sticky. We try to limit the number of sticky posts so that the top of the forum doesn't get too cluttered, but we are happy to consider all requests.[:)]
 
...if someone (or someones) can help gather the list. That way it would be readily accessible, but wouldn't clutter the top of the board with another sticky. I just don't have time right now to search for all the locations.
 
Seriously? Forums are the worst form of information archival.

Putting this in a stickie now is great and helpful and all - for now as a temporary thing. It's good that the admins are responsive to the needs and ideas of its membership. But is there no method of archiving things in a document format? No wiki or anything like that? I see you have a scrapbook, but nothing else on your menu looks like it leads to a wiki. In my experience with websites, forums are no substitute for archiving useful information and making it available to the public. Things get lost in the middle of threads, threads get pushed down, and, importantly to the point, people become blind to stickies and forget about them because they are always there.

Has this site ever considered installing a document system, such as a wiki, to archive all this great stuff to create a legacy for itself? It really should. In the years after The Hobbit is released, this site should have more to show for itself than information locked in forums. Forum search response is poor in terms of the quality of the search. Collaboration on stickie maintenance is difficult. The stickies, at best, should be a Table of Contents full of links to informative articles in your wiki. The wiki itself could have an entire Travel section full of features, stories, and such things as LOTR Bed & Breakfast reviews, crowd sourced by your members who can collaborate on it. Collaboration by the membership is far and away more productive and informative than relying on admins to do things (and they could probably use the break). We can't do that with a stickie and you have the potential for a far broader scope.

Thanks.
 
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Magpie and a number of other Tornfolk have developed the Mathom House, which is dry similar to what you describe. It is dependent on user input but anyone can contribute. I don't have the link with me right now, but Magpie has a link in her footer and there might be a link in our Welcome thread on the home page.
 
But compiling a Locations list in the FAQ section. You have two sub-categories "Characters" and "Cast" both with the same out-of-date information. How about updating this section and having "Characters" and "Locations" ?
 
Chopped liver? [laugh]

I already said I'd be happy to add it to the FAQ if people can either give me a good start to a list, or links to posts and stories where locations are mentioned (or, were you just agreeing with me?). Any help organizing it would be most welcome.

Also, if there's out of date info. in the Cast/Characters sections, please let me know what's outdated, and what the new info is, and I can update it. Anyone can do this any time via PM or email (altaira @ theonering . net).

A while back I asked for help updating the things the FAQ covers and no one had any suggestions. So, those are still welcome too!
 
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[blush] Awkward....

I like that idea though... There's a few little mistakes and pieces of out-of-date info, like Orlando Bloom being down as "rumoured" and no Necromancer Bio. I also don't see why there isn't a photo of Galadriel... I'll give it a comprehensive look-through and post you a list tomorrow if you like.

Might attempt a Locations list too if I feel up to it [:)]
 
Thanks for the link!

I have a number of comments. I'm not sure of the interest, reception or whether this will make it to the ears of those who matter to the project, so I'll keep it as brief as possible to not waste anyone's time.

I read each page that was available. The project's purpose as stated surely looks like it's on target to its goals. But I'll give you my first impression: it's a museum that concentrates on the internals of itself and not an inclusive living thing about the world around it as this wiki should be. The structure as presented so far does not include the specific point of this thread and the kind of theme that supports the kind of travel section I suggested. The organizational structure follows almost exactly how a museum or memorial is organized. You set up a focus group to brainstorm ideas, have some kind of committee to guide its design and completion, and will not open to public collaboration until there's some sense of completion. It should be open now before the studs, drywall and paint. It should be built by the community. Waiting until something like this is "ready" is a perfect way for large collaborative projects to stall. If you wait for it to be "finished," it won't get done. Until it is done, it's a private group of invited people acting as a conservatorship and missing out on the help of thousands. That's not a wiki. The FAQ only admits to "potential contributors" in the sense that we might need to be approved by people or a committee. That's not a wiki either. A wiki is open to public accounts and registration to add and edit content with no approval process other than an email verification and security against spammers. A wiki is not a conservatorship. This project will preserve your legacy like a museum, but I frankly don't see it as a much of living thing that inspires diverse collaboration. Also, being on a separate domain will make it easily missed, so this site will need to make extraordinary effort to keep it obvious and available to everyone. You might even be wise use a DNS CNAME so that it appears on a subdomain here.

Finally, I only say that's my first and quite incomplete impression. I need to be brief so I can't do an effective job of explaining anything beyond my quick observations, and we've had no verbal exchange of ideas, reasons and understandings, so it's overly blunt and won't seem completely fair. Also, I don't know how long this has been in progress or how far it has to go. But I do know a wiki - a living collaborative project - is not structured and run like a museum. It needs to loosen up and refine and restructure as it goes along. Be dynamic.
 
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I think your comments are best directed to the gmail account - torn.mathom.house at gmail The mathom house is truly a community-built place and it is intended to be a living, breathing place to house history and current activity.

I think the creators want to get the wiki to a certain level before it's as wide open as you describe. However, improvements are limited by people's available time, so I'm sure that more volunteers would be very welcome.

Thanks for looking and sharing your initial impressions.
 
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