Top 10 Alternative Places to Film The Hobbit
Rancorous labor disputes threatened the filming of The Hobbit, the prequel to the popular Lord of the Rings trilogy, until an 11th hour intervention by New Zealand's Prime Minister ensured the movie franchise would continue to call New Zealand home. With no disrespect to our Antipodean readers, TIME offers 10 other locales that would suit scenes from J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved book just as well.
The Shire
Location: The Lake District, U.K.
J.R.R. Tolkien's Shire — home of the diminutive Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo, as well as the rest of Hobbit-kind — is a place of pastoral simplicity and beauty. Its hills and fields and woodlands are neither vast nor daunting, but retain the sort of cozy charm Tolkien must have encountered in his own frequent rambles through the English countryside. The rugged Lake District in the country's northwest has for centuries drawn visitors in search of a rural idyll, notably inspiring 19th century Romantic poets like William Wordsworth. Regardless of what New Zealand's protesters say, it would be a fitting home for Hobbiton.
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