Weathertop is indeed not explicitly mentioned in The Hobbit. But I believe there is a refference to it in Chapter II: Roast mutton.
"...Not far ahead were dreary hills, rising higher and higher, dark with trees. On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had een build by wicked people."
The 'old castle part' could reffere to the ruins of The Ancient Fortress of Amon Sûl (aka Weathertop)
This happens just after they left Hobbit-lands and before encountering the trolls (around Trollshaws), so the time and place fits right in.
81.165.82.176 15:19, April 17, 2010 (UTC)
Possible photo from where this was filmed?[]
I was recently at a LOTR-themed trek at Port Waikato, where Weathertop was filmed. Maybe this panorama will help? I'm not sure. It's a 360 degree view from the top of a hill where the barn was on this farm. Either way, it's a lovely view! I'll drag through some of my other photos from the trip to ensure that I don't have a photo which could be more useful than the sort've blurry and ISO-grain filled one that you currently have. — Terimaree (talk) 02:00, November 17, 2011 (UTC)
Weathertop Hill[]
Weathertop Hill is the full name in A Knife in the Dark chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring. It appears within the following sentence:
"His plan, as far as they could understand it without knowing the country, was to go towards Archet at first, but to bear right and pass it on the east, and then to steer as straight as he could over the wild lands to Weathertop Hill."
As you can see, the full name is very clearly capitalized as "Weathertop Hill". Hill is part of the name due to being capitalized. If the sentence said “Weathertop hill”, then the page name would only accurately be just Weathertop. However, the term is “Weathertop Hill” in that sentence and I had previously explained in my edit summary why it is necessary to have the full name of this particular name as the page name:
"Many people who have seen the films and not read the book often confuse the hill and the tower as one and the same. This is not the truth, but I have seen it happen before and as such, I believe the move to “Weathertop Hill” is justified because of that and because the full term is mentioned in “A Knife in the Dark”."
I hope this clarifies any confusion as to where the name appears in the chapter why I believe the full name should be needed.Drour1234 (talk) 19:02, 15 June 2023 (UTC)