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Something quite exciting has been happening at Hobbiton Movie Set over the past 9 months, and for the first time ever, visitors to New Zealand's iconic attraction can now venture beyond the door and explore a real-life hobbit hole... behold, Bagshot Row!

Read 77.9k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with …