Hobbiton Movie Set
Tourist attraction in Matamata, New ZealandWikipedia
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Nov 3, 2026
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And I would return in a heartbeat.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And of course, I visited Hobbiton.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And the whole family went.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And my son, he wanted to move there.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
He just wanted to live in Hobbiton.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
I
Janine KrippnerGUEST
don't blame him.
LennyHOST
Yeah.
LennyHOST
Hobbiton, Matamata name, placed last year in the cup.
LennyHOST
So like you said, being able to, it was like, I went back and watched it again today just to remember how it kind of went in it.
LennyHOST
I think it was about mid pack and then ran on really nicely.
Joel TanHOST
But, yeah, fuck, we did some driving on that first day.
Joel TanHOST
So, yeah, day before the comp, and I'd already driven three and a half hours, and then it was like another two hours to Hobbiton, and then it was another three hours back to Piha, and then another hour to pick up.
Joel TanHOST
My name's been McPike from the airport.
Joel TanHOST
My name's Pepe Pike.
Ygraine Hackett-CantabranaHOST
So the priest arrives at Mary's house and he meets a younger priest.
Ygraine Hackett-CantabranaHOST
And then when he shakes Father Blake, who is Hobbiton priest, he has this vision of Mary with her six pupils because she increasingly gets these mad lenses in her eyes.
Brad HansonHOST
Good, which is a good aesthetic.
Brad HansonHOST
I mean, it's a direct Exorcist rip off of like the eyes sort of being overlaid the film.
Mallory RubinHOST
We found
Joanna RobinsonHOST
Hobbiton.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
It's a real place.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
Exactly.
Mallory RubinHOST
And all that.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
But yeah, finding out that not every hobbit lives in a hole in the ground.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
I mean, even here in Hobbiton.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
And if you know that and you look and you see freestanding structures inside of, you know, the Hobbiton that they built, like those exist.
JennyHOST
Do you know what? Fun fact.
JennyHOST
When they were looking for where they were going to film the Hobbiton scenes, it came down to Wales and New Zealand.
JennyHOST
And they went with New Zealand because it don't rain as much.
PaulHOST
What, for the Lord of the Boars?
JennyHOST
For Lords of the Rings, yeah.
JennyHOST
Where they were going to build the set for Hobbiton.
JennyHOST
Yeah, it literally came down to Wales or New Zealand for all the rolling hills and everything.
JennyHOST
But because it rains less in New Zealand, that's where they went.
TylerHOST
My wife is excited and all the small little details are taken care of for all the little fancy trips we're doing.
TylerHOST
Cause we extended, you know, going to Hobbiton and the, uh, I forget how to pronounce them, but the, uh, Waitomo caves.
TylerHOST
Yeah, the glowing worm cave or whatever, right? I forget.
TylerHOST
I have to read them because I haven't taken the time to memorize them.
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TylerHOST
So it's like showing up on the Friday.
TylerHOST
So I'm like Googling, I'm like, man, I really don't want to screw up my days and my times.
TylerHOST
Like I have Hobbiton in there and the cameras.
TylerHOST
So I like did a lot of research.
BrettHOST
So I'm going to tease that.
BrettHOST
However, I'm also going to think that, yeah, Doctor Who up in Scotland would be great, but what have I been clamoring for? I would like it if, and I know Doctor Who is a BBC show, but wouldn't it be great if they changed the location to, you know, Australia, New Zealand or whatnot? Yes! Use Hobbiton as kind of some of these things.
BrettHOST
That would be so cool.
LegionGUEST
Yes, it would.
Megan PapasHOST
And I was like, you will probably be finished before me.
Ben BoyceHOST
I saw my daughter up for a run in the Hobbiton for next year as well.
Ben BoyceHOST
That's 11 point something Ks or something.
Ben BoyceHOST
True.
Ryan UlrichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it made such a big difference to me that I probably re-read it or listened to the audiobook once a year ever since.
Lisa LinebergerCORRESPONDENT
Ulrich says during their honeymoon to New Zealand, they visited Hobbiton, the movie set from both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Ryan UlrichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I told my husband, someday I want to build a Hobbit house.
Ryan UlrichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But then when we went to the movie set, he said, okay.
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