• doctordevice@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Whoa, what a cool fun fact! I better bring that one up next time I’m watching LOTR with people.

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      7 months ago

      Go visit the South Island and virtually every local has stories about the filming of LotR. A huge number of them were hired by the production in one way or another, from being extras to providing horses to helping dress all those extras & horses to catering all those people etc.

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        7 months ago

        I love this totally sincere reply to a completely insincere joke. I would love to visit New Zealand for a lot of reasons.

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          7 months ago

          It was definitely a bucket list sort of thing for me. The trip from the northeast US absolutely sucks (20+ hours in the air) but for 3 weeks there it was worth it.