Kawarau River
Videos
The Kawarau River is a river in the South Island of New Zealand. It drains Lake Wakatipu in northwestern Otago via the lake's Frankton Arm. The river flows generally eastwards for about 60 kilometres
Kawarau River with Roaring Meg hydro station
Kawarau Bridge Bungy, the world's first commercial bungy site. (A. J. Hackett Bungy Centre on the right)
Geography of Middle-earth
Videos
The geography of Middle-earth encompasses the physical, political, and moral geography of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional continent Middle-earth on the planet Arda, but widely taken to mean all of creati
Kawarau River
…Citroen, Retrospect, and Roaring Meg sections. Because of the danger Waitiri Station usually declines access. The Kawarau featured as a setting for the Argonath in the 2001 motion picture, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The Kawarau appeared on the finale of the Israeli reality show HaMerotz…
Tolkien borrowed the Arthurian place-name Brocéliande for an early version of Beleriand. 1868 illustration by Gustave Doré