Middle Earth is NOT A Real Country!

Middle Earth is NOT A Real Country!
Yeah i’ll take two first-class tickets to Hobbiton, Bag End
Source: Sci Fi Wire

Tourists Seek Middle-earth

Tourists have been trying to book passage to destinations in Middle-earth, apparently not realizing it’s the fictional setting of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Staff members at the Yahoo! Travel Web site told the newspaper that places featured in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films and Tolkien’s books, such as Mordor and Rivendell, have become popular search terms on the site.

“Personally I’d never want to go to Mordor. The film’s real location, New Zealand, on the other hand, is a truly magical place,” Yahoo.co.uk travel producer Morgan Williams told the Herald.

Scenes of Mordor in Jackson’s movies were filmed in New Zealand’s Tongariro National Park, Kaitoke Regional Park stood in for Rivendell and the Southern Alps on the New Zealand’s South Island doubled for the Misty Mountains.