But you know what the really sad thing is about the LOTR locations: Many of the places/locations used to film the LOTR trilogy were filmed on private land, and the land owners all signed contracts with the movie studio so that there is no public access to the sites of the film sets.

What's sad about that?

I couldn't imagine anything worse than having that beautiful countryside spoiled by over-tourism. I hope they carefully remove the sets and put it all back the way it was, even the private lands.