In the build-up to this Wednesday’s world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey it seems that the whole of New Zealand has succumbed to hobbit-mania:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9703273/Hobbit-fever-has-seized-Wellington-in-New-Zealand-ahead-of-the-world-premiere.html#?frame=2409864