Strath Taieri

Strath Taieri Road, Middlemarch, NZ

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Strath Taieri stood in as The Lonelands in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Open schist-strewn grassland on the Strath Taieri Plain near Middlemarch. Public roadside access; the rock tors where Gandalf finds the hidden fissure are a short walk from the highway.

Movie scenes filmed here

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012Radagast distracts the Warg riders across the open plain while Gandalf leads the dwarves to shelter among the rock tors and into the passage toward Rivendell.

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