Matamata, a small country town in the middle of the Hauraki Plains took on the name of Hobbiton when a farm nearby was cast as the location for Bilbo Baggins village in the Lord of the Rings movies. You can go to the location today, if you want to pay for the privilege of going and seeing holes in a hillside, but if you just want photos, you may as well go and pose outside the I-Site building in the town like we did, it’s a lot easier. Also nearby is the Firth Tower – now a historical reserve, a building which was built in 1881 when the swampland on the Hauraki Plains was being drained so that farm development could occur. There are also other restored historic buildings there.
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