The trouble with Hobbits...
Scared mountains, my a$$. The Maori are looking for a payday.
Just do it in Digital. ;o)
The Lonely Mountain isn’t supposed to be a volcano. It has trees and other growth all over it. So, realistically, they shouldn’t be using a mountain that’s “stark” anyway.
Sacred Mountain gods upset if White Devil use magic picture box within their sight; bad bukarah mojo akuaku curse, enforced by tribal lawyers, will eat White Devils alive...unless small (say, $1,000,000) sacrifice made to tribal Sacred Mountain gods shrine.
I’m sure a few $$ could make the mountain much less sacred to them.
What's left now is what other countries term mixed race people and that's the term I now use for them. The word Maori shouldn't actually be used because it sums up both an attitude and a political aspiration of those who contribute to just over 50% of NZL's prison population and quite a significant government obligation to welfare payments for, effectively, around 15% of NZL's population.
A small number of these people are very active in proclaiming their loss of land. The Waitangi Tribunal, which has paid fat salaries to all who are on that gravy train, has settled a number of claims over the last thirty or so years. In my opinion, any such land claim shouldn't have been heard until the inter-tribal genocides were accounted for. That would have tested who were Maori and who weren't. New Zealand was first settled by Moriori people but reverse racism policies continued by successive governments have made that fact almost illegal in discussion.