If we think about New Zealand, we might picture vast, untouched, wild, natural landscapes. Middle-Earth landscapes, as they appear in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies, are closely associated with these ideas. Similarly, the films shape everyday landscape-related experiences and practices in New Zealand. Touristic valorisations—for example of Hobbiton, but also in the course of film tours—favour a hybrid transition between ‘real’ and film landscapes. This paper explores the fluid relationship between landscape elements and social discursive landscapes in the film based on an immersive film analysis. In what ways do landscape imaginations and experiences of New Zealand and staged landscapes of Middle-Earth influence one another to form a certain pastiche? The phenomenological perspective made it possible to uncover hybrid landscape imaginations. Deviations between the perception of on-screen and off-screen landscapes highlighted the contingency of the social construct.