Where was The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers filmed?

2002 film by Peter Jackson

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) was filmed in Mount Sunday — 1 recorded filming location in New Zealand. It 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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  🎬 Studios & sets

  Mount Sunday

  🇳🇿 New Zealand

  hill in Canterbury, New Zealand, used as a Lord of the Rings set

  “The exterior of the Rohirrim's capital of Edoras, including its thatched roofs, took six months to build on Mount Sunday.” Wikipedia

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Kepler Mire New Zealand

  “The Mire was filmed by helicopter for the Peter Jackson film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, in which it was used to portray the Dagorlad Battlefield or Dead Marshes.” Wikipedia

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.

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