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the shire's rest cafe sits inside the actual hobbiton movie set outside Matamata, New Zealand, meaning you order your tea and scones in a working film location rather than a themed room built to suggest one. the round doors and hobbit-hole architecture are original production infrastructure, not reproductions. the pastoral Waikato farmland surrounding it is the same farmland peter jackson chose.
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