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The Lord of the Rings trilogy was shot back to back in New Zealand

Filming began in October 1999 and Hobbiton was built near Matamata

Director Peter Jackson shot all three Lord of the Rings films together in New Zealand, starting in October 1999. The Hobbiton set was built on farmland near Matamata in the Waikato and still welcomes visitors. The Return of the King later won 11 Academy Awards.

Glenorchy Isengard New Zealand Lord of the Rings — Delilah Hart · CC BY-SA 4.0 · licence · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Filming began in October 1999 and Hobbiton was built near Matamata. The figure is taken from Tourism New Zealand, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.