Tolkien tourism

It is especially notable in New Zealand, site of the movie trilogy by Peter Jackson, where it is credited as having raised the annual tourism numbers.

Tolkien tourist attention is less geared to visiting New Zealand's national parks and more focused on scenery that was used as backdrops in Peter Jackson's films.

[2] Mount Sunday, in a remote area west of the Canterbury plains (upper reaches of the Rangitata Valley near Erewhon) served as the location of Edoras.

Some have subsequently called the price of $25 million (in further financial subsidies and specific laws made for the producers benefit) that New Zealand had to pay to retain the movie 'extortionate' and argued that the discussion had occurred in a climate of 'hyperbole and hysteria'.

The colleges where Tolkien taught, the pubs that he and the Inklings frequented, the church he attended, and his former homes in the city all attract tourist interest.

Many of the New Zealand locations where parts of Peter Jackson 's Middle-earth films were shot have become tourist destinations.
The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford contains mementos of The Inklings including Tolkien who used to meet and drink there.