As you know, we're big Lord of the Rings fans, and one of the best locations to visit is Mount Sunday, the stand-in for Edoras.
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| This is how Mount Sunday looked during filming. Peter Jackson's crew spent 11 months building, filming, and carefully deconstructing this huge set. |
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| This is how it looked when we were there. I had read that the mountain itself was on private property, and off limits to visitors. However, common sense prevailed, and the DOC has opened the mountain to visitors. |
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| So of course, we were delighted, and hiked over to take a closer look. |
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| Even without it's appeal as a LOTR film location, it sits in a beautiful, lonely valley, surrounded by forbidding mountains, making it worth a visit in its own right. |
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| Still, it is fun to imagine being here when the film was being made. |
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| As an added benefit, this side valley was used as the location for Helm's Deep. We could see it from the top of Mount Sandusky. |
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| That night after dinner we went for a walk in the misty mountains. It's nice to look more like a wizard than a dwarf or a hobbit for a change. |
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| We stumbled across this little hedgehog. I tried to encourage him to pull his face out of his hidey hole with my shoe, but strangely, he stayed put. |
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