1. Peter Jackson directed The Lord of the Rings films.
2. The director is from New Zealand.
3. He chose New Zealand because he knew that the variety of different landscapes made New Zealand the best place to shoot the films.
4. The used the volcanic region of Mount Ruapehu to create Mount Doom.
5. The used thirty different locations in total.
6. The problem with some of the locations was that they were National Parks or conservation sites so they needed special permission to film there.
7. They solved this problem by digging up the protected plants and taking them to special nurseries, where they lived until filming was finished.
8. Tourists can visit a wide range of different locations of the film, including Hobbiton, Mount Doom, and Edoras.
