In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien So goes the famous first line of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the prequel to his famous Lord of the Rings trilogy that has touched so many of our lives. On the seventh day of our December 2017 honeymoon, Matt and I woke up after a pretty restless night at our Rotorua hotel (super old hotel = super thin walls) and drove an hour north to Matamata. If you look on a map of New Zealand, Matamata rests in farming country, with green, rolling hills that are slightly reminiscent of our home state of Tennessee. Before director Peter Jackson…