34 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About "The Lord Of The Rings" Trilogy

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[Explorer89]

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.

[ItsForTheChildren]

But he was fine with "Highlander"?

ROFL!!

[Popman]

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

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

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[Tax-chick]

LOL - that’s a good one!

[crazydad]

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

[IrishBrigade]

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

...kudos...

[Tax-chick]

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.

[ItsForTheChildren]

"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

[crazydad]

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

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

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.

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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!)

[Sloth]

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

[Mamzelle]

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

[TheOldLady]

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

[Mamzelle]

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