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For New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, the Poolburn Reservoir in Central Otago, New Zealand was used for Rohan scenes.

The theme for Rohan is played on a Hardingfele.

A fully realised set for Edoras was built on Mount Sunday in the upper reaches of the Rangitata Valley, near Erewhon in New Zealand.

Some of the set was built digitally, but the main buildings atop the city were built on location: for example the mountain ranges in the background are not added in with computer-generated imagery, but part of the actual location shot.

The interiors of buildings such as the Golden Hall, however, were located on soundstages in other parts of New Zealand ; when the camera is inside of the Golden Hall, looking out the open gates, the image of the on-set Edoras set is digitally inserted into the door-frame.

It was known among the cast and crew for being extremely windy, as can be seen during the film and DVD interviews.

After filming, Mount Sunday was returned to its original state.