Hobbit film sets and such

Post by **vison** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:57 pm

They don't have to be there, but maybe "we" are going there, to meet Radagast?

Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:39 pm

But there would be no need for the building to be extra big for scale for our sake!

Post by **axordil** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:05 pm

Wait...could they be building TWO? A big one for the dwarf shots and a small one for the Beorn shorts?

*head asplodes*

Post by **Dave_LF** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:53 pm

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Which would argue against Rhosgobel, because there is absolutely no reason why Thorin and company should be there.

Unless it's on Beorn's property.

Or Drogo and Primula are involved in the Dol Guldur plot.

Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:19 pm

You are NOT going to get a reaction out of me.

Oh wait.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:21 pm

Post by **Elentári** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:58 pm

perhaps we're all barking up the wrong tree...

Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:34 pm

Post by **Holbytla** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:37 am

Whatever the end result, those latest two photos do not depict the same structure.

Post by **Elentári** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:55 am

I think you are right on that, Holby...I would tentatively say that the surrounding landscape is different than in the first set of photos. This site seems to be nestled into a hollow whereas ther other was on level ground amongst the trees. So feasibly there must be more that one set being constructed in Paradise - the recent stuff.co.nz article talks about two locations near Glenorchy (Arcadia Station and Paradise)

Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:27 pm

I think this pretty much confirms that it is Beorn's house after all:

Sir Peter's great southern inspiration

Sir Peter spoke in between scenes where Sir Ian McKellan as Gandalf the Grey, Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and dwarves arrive at the house of Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt).

Tuesday was their third and final day of shooting on a giant set, which took eight weeks to build and was based on more than eight months of design - all for one scene of about three minutes of screen time.

This statement seems somewhat contradictory, but is pretty exactly what I expected:

Asked if he felt the weight of expectation on his shoulders, Sir Peter said: "All I can do is make the best movie I can and hope people enjoy it. It's going to have a different tone to The Lord of the Rings because the characters are quite a lot different.

"The book was very much written for a much younger reader than Lord of the Rings was, but I didn't want to make a children's movie, I still wanted to have some of the main themes we had in the Rings."

Post by **Dave_LF** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:55 pm

I think we were seeing pictures of two different sets built at the same location. One of them (the big L-shaped building) could certainly have been part of Beorn's house, but I think the turf-roofed cottage built around a tree was something else.

ETA: By "L-shaped building" I mean this one, which has a porch that looks like it could be the one PJ is sitting on the in the article photo. The other building is this one.

Post by **Elentári** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:26 am

Well, this latest article seems to confirm that there are several sets close together...

Tree's demise Hobbit-sized crisis

On the command "And action", everyone was silent as Gandalf walked slowly, staff in hand, down green-screen covered steps and the runway-like platform to stand beside a green-screen pole and ball and talk to Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt).

Monitors watched by crew members revealed how Gandalf and Beorn appeared to be standing on one of the adjacent physical sets, which featured an oversized workshop and barn, tools and a vegetable garden between real and fake trees.

Other two-storey-high sets included a scrub-covered gate and bee hives on shelves in an open-sided building with tussock on the roof.

Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:00 pm

That all sounds like Beorn's house and related buildings to me.

Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:32 pm

Here is a list of set locations that I was able to pull off the quickly flashing by map in the last production video:

Hobbiton - Matamata
Bywater Countryside - Waihou Redwoods/Putaruru
Trollshows Forest - Denize Bluffs/Mangaotaki Valley
Long Valley Lonely Mountain - ?
Outskirts of Hobbiton - ?
?hills ? the Shire ?lands - ? Golden Bay
Shores of Laketown - Lake Putaki
Forest River - ?
Lonelands - Speargrass Flats/Wanal?
Wildlands - Glonorchy Scheelite/Queenstown
?st Farthing Countryside/Weatherhills - ?
Dale Hills - Rock and Pillar Range/Middle?
Epic Landscape - Hartfield/Strath Taeiri
Beorns - ?
Epic Landscape Forest Slopes Misty Mnts - ?
Misty Mountain ? - Remarkables/Queenstown
Outskirts of Bree - Paradise Trust/Paradise
Anduin Valley - ?ss Burn/Queenstown
Wildlands - ?

At least four others that have lines but the labels aren't visable.

Can anyone else fill in anything else? Anyone care to speculate about what any of t means?

Post by **Elentári** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:21 pm

Anduin Valley - Moss Burn/Queenstown
Epic landscapes - Hartfield / Strath Taieri
Lonelands - Speargrass Flata/Wanaka
Outskirts of Hobbiton – ? / Ohakune
West Farthing countryside/Weather Hills - Takaka Hill
Dale Hills – Rock & Pillar Range / Middlemarch
Beorn's place - Arcadia Station/Paradise

And the Pelorus River is the location for the River Running (Barrels out of Bond)

Minor corrections for spelling
Shores of Laketown – Lake Pukaki
Wildlands – Glenorchy Scheelite / Queenstown

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:38 pm

If I had infinite leisure I'd Google Image search every one of those places and post at least links here.

However, I have no doubt that TORn is on this one already. And I have to go fax 24 pages to somebody back East who probably wants to go home once she has it.

Post by **axordil** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:05 am

I have a book with the locations of the LOTR films described, and what they were used for. Somewhere.

Post by **Holbytla** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:03 am

I am in the opposite camp when it comes to locations.
To wit: I never wanted to know the planet Hoth was filmed on an iceberg. I was hoping I could stay within the film so much so, that I was actually envisioning Hoth.

Same here. I am hoping I can visit Hobbiton. Knowing the actual film location before the fact actually takes away from the experience. After the fact, is a bit different.

Yes I know there were other films, and I know of the locations, but I do want to attempt to pretend until I actually see the footage and rage at PJ et al for trouncing holy writ.

Post by **Elentári** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:47 pm

Barrels out of Bond!