Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Dwarves don't have the coordination or grace to surf stairs....
Especially if they're wearing snow pants.
I wasn't sneaking, I was... assessing my chances.
And I'm not a silly dwarf... I'm a silly Beorning.
Then the dwarf-stuff was quite an insult! Sorry!
I was groggy
No apology necessary, I figured it was an honest mistake, seeing as how I was sticking up for Gimli and all. :)
Just for the record, I haven't worn snow pants, or been that short, since I was 12.
How frightening!
Set Report From Upper Hutt!
Xoanon @ 8:35 pm ESTHutt river girl sends along this report from New Zealand. She's a new spy, so I'm not too sure if everything here is accurate, but hopefully we'll have some pictures to prove it soon!
I have just stood in a paddock of cow dung for the past four hours and watched the Master- Peter Jackson at work directing the heaven sent Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn).
Here is the scene:
Aragorn is lying injured on the river bank. His faithfull steed comes over to him nudging his face and upper body - rousing him obviously from his injuries. Aragorn comes to and grabs his mane in his fist he pulls himself up onto the horse and they walk away.
Aragorn is dirty and wet. He has a wound to his left shoulder - like a sword wound. His has blood on his hands and he is very wet.
Viggo was constantly asking for a spray bottle in which he sprayed across his face and hair. A standby person poured water from a bucket across his feet.
Aragorn's magnificant sword hangs from his hip, his clothes are very dirty and are covered in river soil.
During filming Peter Jackson sat on a little stage (pedestal) and directed things then for a different angle he sat on the ground on a tarpauline. He looked like a buddah.
The location is the Upper Hutt river, which runs behind our properties. We have been kept up all night as the generators whirrled making light so the scene could be set up.
After four hours of watching, I got cold and called it quits and came home but had to share my spy report with you all.
What an amazing experience to have a bit of Hollywood on your own back yard and filmed in a place which you love - the hutt river.
I am in awe of Viggo - he layed on the ground and let the horse nudge him constantly, then in his break he went up and spoke to a group of fans that were standing by. And he even let a little boy touch his sword which he had withdrawn from its bejewled casing.
I am not a dedicated LOTR fan but I do love Viggo he was my fav character - and are so proud that it is filmed near we live. And I can't believe I had the opportunity to see Peter Jackson in the flesh.
See you all. regards Hutt river girl.
Looks like we are in for more dirty Viggo shots! - (painful as they are to see) And I am so looking forward to the horses! - Foremost Shadowfax because of the care they took to train the horse to be ridden "at liberty" (horse speak for "elf-fashion", without bridle) But this looks like a touching scene here!
Looks like we are in for more dirty Viggo shots!
Uh oh, my wife won't like that...
Dirty fingernails too, I'll bet...
Sorry guys, I had to work. But you solved the question yourself - ie that apparently the towers do refer to Morgul and Orthanc. Rayner Unwin, incidentally, is the kid who read The Hobbit and made his dad publish it; years later he was one of the first to read LotR.
Since Tolkien wanted the whole thing as one book, not three, he didn't really have titles, appart from the six section titles. He proposed something like "The Shadow Lengthens" and "The Shadow Defeated", IIRC, for volumns two and three, but got vetoed. In fact, he did not like Return of the King as a title since he felt it gave too much away....
borogrove time!
It'll probably be one of those scenes which isn't in the book(s) but isn't totally out of place and works so well in the movie that no one will really mind. I'll suspend further judgement until the movie comes out, and put my faith in PJ's direction. :)
The Wind is in the Borogroves.
If there really is a scene like this in the movie I will be even more miffed at PJ's departures from the book. I hope Hutt River Girl is wrong!
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