LOTR - Location Map

New Zealand was the setting for the most ambitious film project in history - the adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Kiwi director Peter Jackson used New Zealand's lush and varied landscape to recreate Middle Earth's forests, mountains, countryside and volcanoes. Jackson's special effects company, Weta, based in Wellington, then enhanced these landscapes and created other environments entirely as 3D virtual experiences.

Use our New Zealand map guide to jump to the filming locations that brought Tolkien's Middle Earth to life.