Where was The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring filmed?
2001 film by Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) was filmed in Fiordland National Park, Glenorchy, Hobbiton Movie Set, Waiau River, Mount Owen, Mavora Lakes and 3 more places — 9 recorded filming locations in New Zealand. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
Part of the Peter Jackson's Middle-earth film series · the Lord of the Rings film series
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Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Glenorchy
🇳🇿 New Zealand
settlement in Otago, New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Fiordland National Park
🇳🇿 New Zealand
national park on South Island of New Zealand
“Milford Sound and areas of Fiordland National Park were used to depict the Misty Mountains during filming of The Lord of the Rings.” Wikipedia
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🎬 Studios & sets
Hobbiton Movie Set
🇳🇿 New Zealand
movie set / tourist attraction in Waikato, New Zealand
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🏙 Towns & cities
Paradise
🇳🇿 New Zealand
locality in New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Waiau River
🇳🇿 New Zealand
river in Southland, New Zealand
“The Upper Waiau River that flows between Lakes Manapouri and Te Anau doubled as the fictional River Anduin at the end of the first film of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for the scenes where the Uruk-hai chase the Fellowship along the river banks.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Mavora Lakes
🇳🇿 New Zealand
group of lakes in Southland, New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Skippers Canyon
🇳🇿 New Zealand
canyon in New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Mount Owen
🇳🇿 New Zealand
mountain in Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand
“Mount Owen featured briefly in the first of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Mount Olympus Ski Area
🇳🇿 New Zealand
ski field in Canterbury, New Zealand
Also per Wikipedia's Filming locations section
Wikipedia’s Filming locations section names 17 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Queenstown
🇳🇿 New Zealand
resort town in Otago Region, New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
South Island
🇳🇿 New Zealand
one of the two main New Zealand islands
“For example, the Arrow River, in the Otago region of South Island, stood in for the Ford of Bruinen, where Arwen confronts the nine Nazgûl.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Matamata
🇳🇿 New Zealand
town in New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Tongariro National Park
🇳🇿 New Zealand
national park in New Zealand
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🏙 Towns & cities
Upper Hutt
🇳🇿 New Zealand
city in Wellington Region, New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
The Remarkables
🇳🇿 New Zealand
mountain range in New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Arrow River
🇳🇿 New Zealand
New Zealand river
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🏙 Towns & cities
Whakapapa skifield
🇳🇿 New Zealand
skifield on Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Tākaka Hill
🇳🇿 New Zealand
hill in New Zealand
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🏙 Towns & cities
Nelson
🇳🇿 New Zealand
Urban area on the South Island of New Zealand; "City of Nelson" prior to 1989 local government reforms
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🏙 Towns & cities
Tarras
🇳🇿 New Zealand
locality in New Zealand
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🏙 Towns & cities
Arrowtown
🇳🇿 New Zealand
locality in Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Kaitoke Regional Park
🇳🇿 New Zealand
park in Wellington Region, New Zealand
“The park was the filming location for exterior shots of Rivendell for the 2001 movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Kepler Mire
🇳🇿 New Zealand
wetland in New Zealand
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Lake Alta
🇳🇿 New Zealand
cirque
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Rangitīkei River
🇳🇿 New Zealand
river in New Zealand
“Part of the river was used as the Anduin River in Peter Jackson's movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Mavora Lakes Conservation Park
🇳🇿 New Zealand
protected conservation area in the Southland Region of New Zealand
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in New Zealand, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
More filmed in New Zealand
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018
- Mulan 2020
- Ghost in the Shell 2017
- M3GAN 2022
- Pete's Dragon 2016
Every filming location in New Zealand →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring have?
9 places recorded on Wikidata, and 17 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across New Zealand.
Was The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring filmed at a studio?
Yes. Hobbiton Movie Set, recorded on Wikidata as a filming location.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.