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To: Overtaxed
Would now be a good time for me to rub it in that I've never seen either version? Boy am I glad!
838 posted on 03/22/2002 6:11:38 PM PST by Penny1
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I just watched the National Geographic video, "Beyond The Movie: The Lord of The Rings", and it's pretty cool (got it from Amazon.)

It has a lot of biographical info. re: Tolkien, and it includes several interviews with cast,including Orlando Bloom,Sean Astin, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Ian MacKellan, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood..............no Viggo, though:( as well as on-location footage and clips from the movie. The idea is to show "how the imaginary world of Middle-earth reflects our own." It describes Tolkien's inspiration for creating the story as well as how he went about creating the Elvish languages, etc. You get to see "Hobbiton" before it became Hobbiton, and they talk about how they had to do stuff like plant the vegetable gardens a year before shooting started, etc.I really enjoyed it.

839 posted on 03/22/2002 6:28:33 PM PST by MozartLover
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To: Penny1, JenB, HairOfTheDog, ALL
I just watched the National Geographic video, "Beyond The Movie: The Lord of The Rings", and it's pretty cool (got it from Amazon.)

It has a lot of biographical info. re: Tolkien, and it includes several interviews with cast,including Orlando Bloom,Sean Astin, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Ian MacKellan, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood..............no Viggo, though:( as well as on-location footage and clips from the movie. The idea is to show "how the imaginary world of Middle-earth reflects our own." It describes Tolkien's inspiration for creating the story as well as how he went about creating the Elvish languages, etc. You get to see "Hobbiton" before it became Hobbiton, and they talk about how they had to do stuff like plant the vegetable gardens a year before shooting started, etc.I really enjoyed it.

842 posted on 03/22/2002 7:15:27 PM PST by MozartLover
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