Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I posted the other week on my visit to the Hobbiton Movie Set – and promised a second part. I took, of course, far too many photos.

Sam Gamgee’s house in Bagshot Row on the Hobbiton Movie set.

But then, how often can you visit Hobbiton? For real. OK, it’s the movie set, not the real thing. But heeeeey.

A barrel of Delving and Oatlock ale near the Green Dragon Inn. What? No Nosefinger and Barrelgutts suds?

Set dressing: a wheelbarrow – Hobbit-sized – in Hobbiton.

The set is laid out in a valley much as Tolkien described it, with the Party Field and tree beneath Bag End, and The Water beyond that, complete with Sandyman’s Mill and the Green Dragon – the fabled inn where hobbits went to socialise at the end of the day.

The Green Dragon, bridge and Sandyman’s Mill – the latter under construction and yet to…