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Upper Rangitata and the Sinclair and Two Thumbs Range

his is Rohan country (as in the Rohan horse riders' nation in Lord of the Rings). The Edoras village and golden hall was built here for the second and third of the movie trilogy.

 

In reality it is the junction of the Potts and Rangitata Rivers with the high peak of Mt D'Archiac in the distance and on the edge of the Hatatere Conservation park in the Ashburton Lakes District, Canterbury New Zealand

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Uploaded on July 9, 2010
Taken on June 29, 2010