Peter Jackson may have completed both of his Middle-earth trilogies of films – The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit – but he’s still got some of the Shire close to home.
Actually, it’s under his home. Stuff reports that a secret bookcase opening in Jackson’s home leads to a recreation of Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins.
Bino Smith, an artist who worked with Jackson on Lord of the Rings and King Kong, helped the director build a livable system of tunnels that includes Bag End beneath Jackson’s backyard.
“[Sir Peter Jackson] bought a two-storey, 1930s mansion, just out of Masterton, he got the boys up first to build this giant roof,” Smith says. “”Bag End is underground. You have to go under tunnels to get to it.”