Here is the hotel where we stayed on our third night in NZ, a place called Bag End. It was kind of dump, to be honest. I kept hitting my head and the bed was too short. Then we had an infestation of dwarves.
The oak tree above Bag End is actually fake! Apparently the original died between Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, so Peter Jackson had it recreated out of fiberglass, using silk for the leaves and wiring them to the branches. Love it!
