7 days to go...

The restored Paramount Theatre, where Viggo's reading will be

Another "shot" of Molly Malone's

Off on a full-day LOTR tour with Wellington Rover

Looking down on the city from Mt Victoria

Mt Victoria in Wellington, home of "Get Off the Road!" and escape to mushrooms

Picture hobbits with mushrooms...

Right: the actual large tree wasn't real

Wishing I had a hobbit pile to join in

Nyall Bay, where beginners (not to name names) learn to surf

My notes are a mess, but I think this is the Fort Dorset area, where the Bree set was located

Seatoun, home of PJ, WETA, and the Chocolate Fish Cafe

Chocolate Fish Cafe

View from the Cafe

Some of my tour-mates

Kaitoke Regional Park, home of Rivendell

Sign pointing where the set was located

Little Frodo gets quite a few shots here to make up for staying hidden at Mt Victoria

Rumour has it that there was a scene shot here, although that's not confirmed

Harcourt Park, one of the Isengard locations

You can see the faint traces of the road that Gandalf rode to the tower

Also visible, although not in this photo, are the traces of the two breakaway"orc" trees-- real trees cut into pieces and put back together with hinges so they could be "chopped down" over and over

The Hutt River, one of many standing in for the Anduin, where the Elven boats were launched from Lothlorien

Armed with TORn "spy" photos, we attempt to find the spot where Brego nuzzled Aragorn after his fall (the rest of that scene was shot near Queenstown)

Dry Creek Quarry, home of Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith

Coming back into Wellington

Cuba Mall's infamous Bucket Fountain

Yet another angle on Molly Malone's

These 3 photos are the second fell beast, on the Reading Cinema

Here's the big guy again