The Hobbit`s guide to NZ

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A Hobbit Hole on the set of Hobbiton where scenes from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the "Hobbit" trilogy were filmed near Matamata, New Zealand.
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The Hobbit's guide to NZ
EN IMMERSION. Dès votre arrivée en Nouvelle-Zélande, le tampon de la douane annonce la couleur : “Welcome
to Middle-earth” (le lieu où se déroulent Le Seigneur des anneaux et Le Hobbit). Depuis le succès mondial des films
du réalisateur Peter Jackson, l’office du tourisme met en avant la variété et la beauté à couper le souffle des
lieux de tournage. Cet article vous en fait découvrir quelques-uns.
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
The Hobbit's guide
to NZ
Sur les traces
du Hobbit en
Nouvelle-Zélande
silver screen grand écran, cinéma / fantasy (oeuvre)
fantastique / to flood envahir / theater (US)= theatre
(GB) salle de cinéma / to pump out fournir, produire (en grand nombre), déverser sur le marché /
location lieu (de tournage) / Kiwi Néo-Zélandais
(du nom de l’oiseau éponyme) / dash soupçon,
pointe / down-home rustique, ici rusticité / a heaping
full of une montagne de / to trek randonner / boulder-strewn parsemé de rochers/blocs de pierre /
meadow prairie / in the wake of dans le sillage de,
à la (pour)suite de / to bob s’agiter, danser (sur
l’eau comme un bouchon) / dwarf nain / picking
choix / to link lier, associer / Middle-earth Terre du
Milieu.
2. to make, made, made sense être sensé, se justifier / thrill frisson, sensation forte / scenery décor,
panorama / amazing sensationnel / snow-topped
au sommet enneigé / lush luxuriant / gently doucement / rolling ondoyant / countryside campagne.
3. to set, set, set créer, mettre en place / bona fide
véritable / wonky détraqué, cinglé / to count oneself se considérer comme / off the beaten path
hors des sentiers battus.
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BY ANDREA KITAY
UCKLAND, New Zealand —
Bilbo and company are back
on the silver screen in director Sir Peter Jackson’s threepart adaptation of the adventure fantasy tome “The
Hobbit.” While fans flood to theaters,
New Zealand’s tourism machine is
pumping out new location tours the way
only Kiwis do — with a dash of downhome and a heaping full of adrenalin.
From trekking boulder-strewn meadows
in Trollshaw Forest, kayaking the Pelorus
River in the wake of barrel-bobbing
dwarves to horseback riding Beorn’s
house and woods, the pickings just got
a lot brighter in the country whose identity is now inextricably linked with Middle-earth.
2. But do movie locations as a basis for
travel make sense? If you’re looking for
some thrills and a lot of scenery, it just
may. According to Jared Connon, super-
A
vising locations manager for the film
company 3 Foot 7 Ltd. and all three “Hobbit” films, “What’s amazing about filming on location in New Zealand is how
diverse the landscape is and how quickly
it changes. You can travel from snowtopped mountains, through lush tropical forests, across gently rolling countryside and down to the ocean all within
the space of three hours.”
3. But before you decide that setting a
travel itinerary around a collection of
movie locations is just for the bona fide
wonky — I counted myself a skeptic —
it turns out a well-planned road trip with
locations as points of interest will get
you to places off the beaten path you
may never have considered otherwise.
Ruakuri Cave
4. I headed south to Ruakuri Cave in
the North Island’s Waitomo region. One
of 300 known limestone caves in the
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area, Ruakuri played a sound-only role
in the first “Hobbit” movie. Here, ancient
limestone formations and spectacular
crystal tapestries are not only a stunning
geologic wonder but also give a chilling
bounce to sound that made them ideal
for recording the background noises in
the “Hobbit’s” goblin cave scenes.
Hairy Feet Waitomo
Z
5. From Waitomo it’s a roughly 45minute, very winding drive to the Mangaotaki Valley just beyond the small
farming community of PioPio, widely
recognized as the shearing capital of the
world. It’s also home to one of the
newest tour operators, Hairy Feet Waitomo, managed by Suzie and Warrick
Denize on their 280acre sheep spread.
While the oddly
rugged country isn’t top-notch farmland, it turns out to
be a stellar filming
site. Undulating
hills stippled with
huge boulders left akimbo from eons of
erosion rest below massive limestone
bluffs.
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8. On a rocky outcrop at the base of the
Aratiatia Rapids, 10 minutes outside the
town of Taupo, film crews spent two
days capturing roiling waters fall over
boulders as regular releases of dam water flow down a narrow, bouldered channel. Short of a perilous walk down slippery rocks, a spin in a jetboat is the
preferred and much more amusing way
to see the rapids at their base.
Havelock
9. A snappy commuter flight to the
South Island’s Marlborough region followed, and then it was a short drive to
the coastal town of Havelock for a visit
to Pelorus Eco Adventures. Here it’s all
about nature and a slower pace as I
donned a vest and
inflatable kayak for
a half-day paddle
down the Pelorus
River’s placid waters to see the rocky
outcrop where barrel-riding dwarves
exit their barrels
and negotiated a ride into Dale in the
second “Hobbit” movie. This location received an enormous amount of screen
time, and we stopped for a sandwich and
short exploration of the rocks and surrounding beech forest.
Do movie
locations
as a basis for travel
make sense?
Aratiatia Rapids
6. “This is where several pivotal
scenes were filmed in the first movie,”
beams Suzie, pointing to a clearing
where a burned-out farmhouse and troll
campfire built from polystyrene in the
first “Hobbit” film. This is Trollshaw Forest to Hobbitophiles. While nothing remains of the filming that took place over
four weeks here, for die-hard fans the location is instantly familiar, rewarding
in the way an overdue visit to a beloved
family home is.
7. Some of the most memorable scenes
from the second “Hobbit” movie are the
dwarves bobbing in barrels. Filming was
done at two locations, the Aratiatia
Rapids on the Waikato River just off the
North Island’s Volcanic Highway, and the
South Island’s beech tree-lined Pelorus
River in the Marloborough region.
Dart Stables
10. An hour north of Queenstown
is Paradise, where I visited Dart Stables for its Ride of the Rings trek on
one of six horses of Rohan still working at the stables. The 1 1/2-hour trek
took me through the woods of Lothlorien, past the Misty Mountains and to
the site where film crew spent two
months building Beorn’s house for the
second film.
11. A favorite filming location of both
cast and crew, “it is not only one of the
most gorgeous parts of the country, but
it means we all get to spend time in
Queenstown, which is always a lot of
fun,” according to Jared Connon.
And, after all, isn’t that the point of
travel? ●
4. cave grotte, caverne / to head se diriger, aller
(vers) / limestone calcaire / sound-only uniquement sonore / tapestry tapisserie, ici formations /
stunning stupéfiant / wonder merveille / chilling
effrayant / bounce bond, ici résonance, écho / background noise bruit de fond / goblin lutin.
5. hairy poilu, velu / roughly approximativement /
winding sinueux / beyond au-delà de, ici de l’autre
côté de / shearing tonte (des moutons) / acre arpent
(0,4 ha) / spread étendue, domaine / oddly curieusement / rugged déchiqueté, rocailleux / top-notch
excellent, de première ordre / farmland terre agricole / stellar éblouissant / hill colline / stippled tacheté,
ici parsemé / akimbo écarté (position des jambes),
ici disloqué / eon temps infini, très longue période
(géologique) / bluff à-pic, falaise.
6. pivotal crucial, capital / to beam s’épanouir en
un large sourire / to point to désigner / clearing
clairière / burned-out détruit par le feu/ campfire feu
de camp / die-hard inconditionnel / rewarding gratifiant / overdue n’ayant que trop tardé, tardif.
7. beech tree hêtre.
8. outcrop affleurement / crew équipe (de tournage, techniciens) / roiling tourbillonnant / release
libération, relâchement / dam barrage / channel
canal / short of sauf / slippery glissant / spin petit
tour / jetboat bateau à propulsion hydraulique.
9. snappy vif, prompt / commuter flight navette
aérienne, vol régional / pace rythme / to don revêtir / vest gilet (de sauvetage) / inflatable gonflable
/ paddle descente en kayak (paddle pagaie) / to exit
sortir de / surrounding environnant.
10. stables écuries, ici centre d’équitation / misty brumeux.
11. cast acteurs / gorgeous splendide / point intérêt,
but.
Découvrez le reportage vidéo
sur le site www.vocable.fr et
testez votre compréhension
Le Néo-Zélandais Mark Oremland,
originaire d’Auckland, vante les
mérites de son pays en France
depuis des années. Il a créé une
agence de tourisme et a même
monté un restaurant, Kiwi Corner, à Paris. Sur la
partie BASIC du CD de conversation, Mark nous
révèle les secrets de son pays.
Du 18 septembre au 1er octobre 2014 VOCABLE • 7