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34 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About "The Lord Of The Rings" Trilogy
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Posted on 08/31/2014 6:48:45 AM PDT by Perdogg

1. Nicolas Cage passed up the role of Aragorn because of “family obligations.”

2. Daniel Day-Lewis also turned down the role multiple times.

3. The same fight choreographer and fencer who worked on Lord of the Rings also worked on The Parent Trap and Star Wars.

4. And he said that Viggo Mortensen was “the best swordsman [he] ever trained.”

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; TV/Movies; The Hobbit Hole
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To: Tax-chick

Sigh. Sean Bean could NOT be Aragorn. His characters always have to die.

Sean Bean death reel - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sGR1-Wgo1M

That being said, Viggo didn’t do it for me as Aragorn, either. Eomer was perfect.


41 posted on 08/31/2014 10:46:46 AM PDT by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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To: Flag_This
But he was fine with "Highlander"?

ROFL!!

42 posted on 08/31/2014 11:03:06 AM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: IronJack
I have to disagree with the Mortensen pick. This was the latest in a Iong line of kings, but there was nothing regal about Mortensen’s Aragorn.

In many ways I think that was the point...

After years of living the hard life of a Ranger, one would be humble and unassuming...

JMHO

43 posted on 08/31/2014 11:04:24 AM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: LS

44 posted on 08/31/2014 11:24:01 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Caipirabob

45 posted on 08/31/2014 11:24:55 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

LOL - that’s a good one!


46 posted on 08/31/2014 11:30:07 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Perdogg

Tolkien stole the Idea from Richard Wagners, Ring De Niebulungen.


47 posted on 08/31/2014 11:59:42 AM PDT by crazydad (Obamamohamed is a traitor)
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To: KarlInOhio

And Yoko would have been the terrifying screech of the nazgul.

...kudos...


48 posted on 08/31/2014 12:19:23 PM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: crazydad

Wagner cribbed the plot from Germanic and Scandinavian legend. There aren’t that many plot similarities with Tolkien’s novels - just some general atmosphere.

A documentary I watched recently said that Tolkien was particularly influenced by the Finnish language and their national epic poem, the Kalevala.


49 posted on 08/31/2014 1:56:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: crazydad
"The Poetic Edda or Elder Edda is a collection of Old Norse alliterative verse poetry preserved in a 13th century Icelandic manuscript, the Codex Regius. Together with the 13th century Prose Edda, it is the primary surviving source for Germanic legend and Norse myth. One of the poems contained in it, the Völuspá, was a major source of inspiration to J.R.R. Tolkien."

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Poetic_Edda

50 posted on 08/31/2014 5:56:32 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: Tax-chick

Oh yes Wagner used the Legend of the Neibulungen for the Ring. But just very similar to Wagners opera.


51 posted on 08/31/2014 6:55:17 PM PDT by crazydad (Obamamohamed is a traitor)
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To: IronJack

I have to disagree with the Mortensen pick. This was the latest in a Iong line of kings, but there was nothing regal about Mortensen’s Aragorn.

* * *

Totally agree! I have loved Mortensen in other roles (such as “A History of Violence”) but he was just miscast as Aragorn. He wasn’t rough and, frankly, frightening enough in his Strider persona, and I never bought him as the king in waiting. Daniel Day-Lewis would have been very good, I think, though he tends to ham things up. (Though at least we were spared Nicholas Cage!!! Yikes! LOL!)


52 posted on 09/01/2014 12:29:02 AM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: Perdogg

The thing about Wood and McKellen not working together is just plain wrong.


53 posted on 09/01/2014 6:51:31 PM PDT by Sloth (Rather than a lesser Evil, I voted for Goode.)
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To: TheOldLady

LOL—yeah. I get a lot of names of hollywood types wrong...


54 posted on 09/02/2014 7:15:42 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle

Yes. And I really like Hugh Jackman a lot, too.


55 posted on 09/03/2014 5:02:24 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

I didn’t like how they made Aragorn so emo.


56 posted on 09/03/2014 6:44:02 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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