William Kircher sitting on his 1950s Massey Ferguson tractor with "Black Doris" the chicken in his arms.
Actor William Kircher, who played an angry-looking dwarf in Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit, is looking a little less ferocious these days.
When not touring overseas, he's been busy recreating his own patch of Middle-earth on the outskirts of Featherston.
It's been more than two years since he and his wife Nicole Chesterman Kircher were on a Sunday drive and on an impulse went to an "open home" viewing.
At the end of the driveway, they found a storybook house with century-old trees, an established orchard, and an historic water race running through the property which included a large paddock and a cluster of sheds.
