Edoras, LOTRs Most Insane Location

The making of Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings trilogy is full of amazing stories. Going behind the scenes of LOTR in the LOTR DVD appendices is like exploring Smaugs hoarde of treasure. For me, one of the best LOTR behind the scenes stories is that of Edoras the capital of Rohan a massive set that was built for real. Edoras was built on Mount Sunday in the South Island of New Zealand over a gruelling eleven months. It was one of the most remote and difficult LOTR locations, but also one of the favourite of the cast and crew. This LOTR video essay explores how they built Edoras, and more importantly why building it in this location was so important to properly translating Tolkiens vision on film. If you want to see more Lord of the Rings behind the scenes stories like this, then check out my minidocumentary on how they built the Hobbiton set for real The gorgeous original drone footage in this video was used with