The Green Dragon Inn from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is Now A Real Pub

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is out in theaters right now, and it’s become one of the biggest talking points of the season not necessarily in regards to Oscars, but to 48 fps (aka HFR) and whether or not this first part of his return to Middle Earth was as enjoyable as his Lord of the Rings trilogy. The debate rages on, and the Tolkien-ization of New Zealand continues as Nerd Bastards (via Slashfilm) points out that Hobbiton, the tourist site that houses the sets where some of LOTR and The Hobbit were filmed, has turned The Green Dragon Inn, one of the Shire’s local bars, into an actual functioning pub. Check out these stunning photos of The Green Dragon pub, posted courtesy of Nerd Bastards: While the interiors for the movies were actually filmed on sound stages in Wellington, NZ, they’ve been painstakingly recreated and rebuilt inside the pub, …