Lord of the Rings: Location Guidebook

Rating:
Summary: A Super Book!
Review: We were in New Zealand last February when we found the version that preceded this one. It was a WONDERFUL book because it was concise, yet full of details. Each of the major sites was described with pictures, text, maps, directions, and even GPS coordinates. We went to about a half dozen of the sites, and loved the book as a companion to our travels. The sites are, in general, not marked, and we would have found them only by using this book. For "Lord of the Ring" aficionados traveling to New Zealand, this is "must have" book!

Rating:
Summary: Good but could have been better
Review: With something approaching 100,000 copies in print this is one of the all time best-selling NZ books. Probably the publisher didn't expect it to be the sales success it has been otherwise more money would have been spent on it. The pictures are all there but they are are small. A bigger page format would have done them and the beatiful scenery justice. It's nice to know where the scenes were filmed, but don't expect to recognise the settings in the film instantly as there was a heap of digital manipulation done and a standard requirement of their getting permission to use the locations was that everything look the same after they had finished. I haven't been on one of the guided tours but I think that would be the best way to go, rather than use this book as a self guide.

Rating:
Summary: Good but could have been better
Review: With something approaching 100,000 copies in print this is one of the all time best-selling NZ books. Probably the publisher didn't expect it to be the sales success it has been otherwise more money would have been spent on it. The pictures are all there but they are are small. A bigger page format would have done them and the beatiful scenery justice. It's nice to know where the scenes were filmed, but don't expect to recognise the settings in the film instantly as there was a heap of digital manipulation done and a standard requirement of their getting permission to use the locations was that everything look the same after they had finished. I haven't been on one of the guided tours but I think that would be the best way to go, rather than use this book as a self guide.