What I mostly love about this video, is no matter what culture/country you're from, these peoples faces tells a different side of perspective.

The most incredible trip I've ever taken. I still can't believe I went!! Thank you, thank you, thank you to Air NZ, Tour NZ, Warner Bro, and Peter Jackson for this magnificent contest!

Thank you so much for the wonderful opportunity, Air New Zealand! And thanks for including my Gollum voice in your video! ;)

Five years - oh the memories, we were so lucky :-)

All of the winners were so lucky, wish I could of just been a year older, so I could of entered the contest

I occasionally think about this contest and how much hope a lot of us held for being one of the lucky winners. I'm happy for all those who got to live their amazing dream. And I hope all those, who hopes where unfulfilled, that one day we can make it to the land of our dreams .

I'm laying sick in bed right now, watching this again... It's almost a year and I still feel hollow because I left my heart there... OW GOSH I hate hearing/seeing myself on video, but I love the memories... I still cry knowing I will never be able to go back, but thanks thanks thanks for making this possible!!!

Watch highlights of the #HobbitFanContest winners’ unforgettable journey through Middle-earth!

So wonderful sitting here in SD and seeing how a real Xmas is being celebrated , the absolute joy on the children's faces just blesses our hearts.

I don't need to stretch my imagination to grasp how these people felt. When LOTR first came out I was only just getting into genealogy. From the Fellowship onward, my fascination grew and grew. I watched the DVDs incessantly, and found myself yearning to see New Zealand for myself. The scene where Frodo is reading a book waiting for Gandalf to arrive made my heart skip beats and I had no clue why. Then I located my kin in New Zealand and my world blew open! My gggGrandparents and all of their children except my ggGrandfather immigrated to New Zealand, arriving in Christchurch in 1864 on board the vessel Indian Empire. Today their descendants represent amazing aspects of Kiwi jistory. My gGrandfather's cousin was Fanny Fantham, for whom the subsidiary peak of Mt. Taranaki was named. Geoffrey Fantham Sim represented the riding of Matamata (yup, HOBBITON!) in the legislature, and one of Fanny's descendants married into one of the families that created the kiwifruit industry. Every shot in the series of films, both LOTR and The Hobbit, reinforced me connection with the country. Once I arrived in Auckland, I began a love affair with New Zealand that has not diminished in the slightest. The people are incredible, the food is extraordinary, and the geography is stunning. Traveling from Hamilton to Wellington was an epic journey in its own right, as the sights around me seemed to morph from one ecosystem to the next, each more beautiful than the last. Even more than 5 years later, I still yearn to return. The only downside to my genealogical research is that I realize I should been born in New Zealand!. I know Christmas is weeks away still, but I want to wish everyone in New Zealand a very Merry Christmas and a most prosperous New Year. Perhaps next Christmas I can experience the holidays Kiwi style! Ahhhh . . . to dream!

Thank-you Air New Zealand thank-you thank-you thank-you #AirNZHobbit

Reading these comments makes me so proud to be a kiwi from middle earth, how lucky am I just to step outside my door and I'm there already, who else is here from middle earth?

My daughter is a huge Hobbit Fan. She designed her own Hobbit Dream House, which she wants to live in. I hope she gets to go to New Zealand as it's a beautiful Country. I dated a New Zealander for 8 years. I was so lucky to see the County. Wales (UK) has similar beaches.

Great clip guys, we went to Hobbiton too and it was marvelous... you had the best experience ever.......👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I really need to watch the hobbit movies, bin holding out to try and find them in 3d to watch on my 3d tv

Oh My GOOOOOD, If only I could have been with this group, you are very very lucky people, :') :'D

Seven years ago this week, and yet it still feels like only yesterday!

WHY WASNT I THERE IM CRYING haha

Awesome fans are so lucky!

I'm not sure if I could have handled that, definitely not bungy jumping due to some stupid existing medical condition that may actually kill me, but we all gotta die, life insurance still says no, trolls to them. Visiting this place is definitely on my bucket list & as i live in Australia it's practically next door, writing this in 2021, I've heard that a lot of the hobbit houses that were basically just a shell, that's why everyone was just hovering in the door, are now dug out & you can really enter them. Thank you for making this, kudos to Air New Zealand & the people of New Zealand for keeping this dream alive, it is a very precious thing you all have done. ( sorry ).

I've met the bartender at the Green Dragon Inn!!!

As for a kiwi, this has touched me 😭

AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!

5:26 an angle that a bit reminds ne of Spirit:Stallion of the Cimmaron homeland place....

There needs to be more of these special trips here to NZ because people really are missing out. They should make the trips more detailed, like if Air NZ organised a very special trip to NZ and picked a bunch of lucky USA celebrities to join the trip, and they start by going to Invercargill for like a week, they went to all spent one day going to all sorts of places including Queens Park and the Southland Museum where they saw the tuatara reptiles, possibly even getting lucky to watch the curator Lindsey Hazley feeding them. Then they went to Milford Sound by bus, including going through Homer Tunnel, then Queens Town, then Nelson, and then they went to the North Island to do all that stuff there and then they have to get onto their planes to go back home

I REALLY wish I could have done this ❤️❤️❤️

I will get there 1 day

0:44 Oh that hurt

wow😍😍😍

Can I come next time

The downside to living in New Zealand is that we couldn't go on this trip with everyone as well

I love hearing Americans pronounce 'Rotorua'.

not jelous only i wanna try too :´)

Im a kiwi and haven't even watched the hobbit movie.

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