Best Supporting Landmass

Tourists lured by LotR: “Too bad they don’t give Oscars for ‘best supporting landmass’. If they did New Zealand’s role in Lord of the Rings would have swept that award”, reports travel editor Anne Chalfant in a 3 page NZ feature in San Francisco’s Bay Area Daily. And in The Guardian more Tolkien facsimile: “These are islands where the earth still spits boiling water and mud, with the volcanic plateau in the central North Island becoming Tolkien’s fiery Mt Doom, peaceful pastoral Matamata in a starring role as Hobbiton and the majestic fiords of the deep South standing in for the Misty Mountains.”