Just north of Lincoln City, Oregon, Cascade Head juts out into the Pacific Ocean. Much of the property on this spectacular headland was acquired by The Nature Conservancy, and a magnificent trail leads to high meadows through a magical rain forest of huge sitka spruce. With moss, lichens, mushrooms, wild flowers, oxalis like giant shamrocks, and rain, this was such a primeval forest that it conjured up images of hobbits, ents, orcs, goblins, elves, and other denizens of The Lord of the Rings. Did the producers ever even consider Oregon as a possible location for their film instead of New Zealand?

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