Even if you own the Blu-ray or DVD of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and have seen this featurette before, give yourself a little weekend present and watch this “New Zealand, Home of Middle-earth” featurette again, because it is absolutely gorgeous. Transporting. And one of the best advertisements for a country that I’ve ever seen.

We showed you a shorter version of this featurette just a week before the premiere of the first Hobbit movie, but as we are now starting to get new footage and screen shots from the second movie, the official Facebook page for The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy found this to be a good time to post this featurette, and I completely agree.

Featurette: The Hobbit – New Zealand, Home of Middle-earth

And now that you’re ready to travel to New Zealand as soon as possible, of course you need to see this safety featurette again, which was originally released before the Unexpected Journey premiere by Air New Zealand:

Featurette: An Unexpected Briefing

The Hobbit films star Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchette, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Sylvester McCoy, Aidan Turner, Graham McTavish, John Callen, Ken Stott, Mikael Persbrandt, Ryan Gage, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Ian Holm, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Conan Stevens, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans, Evangeline Lilly, Barry Humphries and Benedict Cumberbatch.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is available now on Blu-ray and DVD.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be released Dec. 13, 2013.

The Hobbit: There and Back Again, will hit theaters December 17, 2014.