LoTR: Return of the King - Pictures, spy reports and spoilers thread (ongoing)

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[HairOfTheDog]

Spoiler alert!

See also FBF's post at 479 of the other news from TORN today!

Media Watch: 'The Biggest Battle Of The Ring'
7/10/03, 5:54 am EST - Demosthenes

Swedish daily Aftonbladet has a new RoTK story up. While we're searching for a translation, you can all check out the pretty pictures - no new ones, but a good set of RoTK stills. Thanks to Ringer Spy Eva for the heads-up. [More] [English Translation] Spoilers

[ksen]

RE: the game indicating that RoTK will be ruined....

In the Two Towers video game there were many action sequences that were not in the movie. I wouldn't worry too much.

[maquiladora]

Check it out! Spoilers!

Gandalf the White surveys the carnage of Pellenor Fields

Ian McKellen updated his White Book, spoilers galore! Few more pics there too....here.

[HairOfTheDog]

Spoiler alert!

See pic above! I love that! - Gandalf looks a little lost! - So do the trucks in the background! Rest of story:

McKellen Updates White Book
7/15/03, 1:34 pm EST - Xoanon

Ian McKellen (Gandalf) has updated his 'White Book' section of his website. There are some great pictures from the battlefield in 'Return of the King'! [More]

From the above:

In this way I revisited the Gates of Mordor today , where The Mouth of Sauron once more threw down Frodo’s mithral vest. And Gandalf meets despair. Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Pippin were nothing but eyelines marked by a chalk cross behind or alongside the camera, or a yellow tennis ball or a red apple spiked on top of a lighting stand. I wonder if today’s tennis ball was a veteran from the Balrog battle where again an eyeline was need for a non-existent foe.

That is my VERY FAVORITE heartbreak of the whole story! - I am gonna be so twittery watching this. Ksen, I know you posted this for us yesterday but I was too distracted to read it! - Thanks for the ping Maq!

[Fire-Breathing_Freeper]

Im so glad they kept that part close to the book.
I always liked it.

[HairOfTheDog]

FROM HERE: Coming Soon! - Latest News

COMIC-CON: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Preview!!

Source: Blake Wright

Saturday, July 19, 2003

A host of hobbits, goblins and warriors dropped in on the San Diego Comic Convention today to premiere three minutes of a 12-minute preview of the third and final Lord of the Rings movie "The Return of the King". The full 12-minute sneak peek will be featured on the August 26 release of "The Two Towers" DVD. Prior to the preview, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Dominic Monaghan and others fielded questions from the crowd, then introduced a special taped message from Ian McKellen, Peter Jackson and Billy Boyd who are still in New Zealand filming pick-ups for the new film due in December. The trio expressed their regrets for not being at the Con, then introduced the new footage.

The footage begins where Two Towers ends. Gandalf telling the heroes that the battle for Helm's Deep was over, but the battle for Middle-Earth has just begun. Flash to Peter Jackson in the editing room discussing the battle that will take place on Pellenor Fields. Cut to several battle shots involving men on horses and orcs. Jackson then refers to Helm's Deep as an 'opening skirmish' when compared to the battles on Pellenor. The last shot is one of Pippen and Gandalf. Pippen asks, "Is there much hope for Frodo and Sam?" Gandalf answers: "There was never much hope. Just a fool's hope."

Elijah told the crowd that Frodo goes through a quite a change during the course of ROTK. He described it as a complete deterioration of himself to the point where he really is no longer Frodo. Elijah added that the third film is 'better than Fellowship and Two Towers combined.'

We'll all get our chance to judge this December

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Would it KILL them to release a clip?

A snippet? A bit? A tasssty, juicy morsssel?

Something?

ANYTHING to satiate my hunger?!

This time last year, we had a handful of downloadables, watchables, and savables for TTT.

This is killing me.

Absolutely killing me.

[HairOfTheDog]

I am dying too! - I am afraid it isn't gonna get done! What is the hold up? Throw us a bone!

We want a trailer! Pleeeeeeeeeease!

[2Jedismom]

I'm with you...would it kill 'em????

Argh!

[maquiladora]

[HairOfTheDog]

I hope they are getting busy there!

[HairOfTheDog]

Spoiler alert!

WELL! - New line thinks these picks are a big deal! - I missed them when they were on TORN, but found them on Fantasy Planet.

TORN STORY:

New RoTK Pictures?
7/22/03, 4:16 am EST - Demosthenes

Ringer Spy Elfstone dropped us a line about some new RoTK pictures that just popped up on Spanish LoTR site Elanillounico.com. These images have since been removed from their website and we were asked by the film-makers to remove them as well.

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Also - New game in the works:

GAMING: Hobbit Video... AMAZING
7/22/03, 11:16 am EST - Xoanon

From Gaming Havens: It's hard to make my jaw drop, but when I first saw the video for Sierra's The Hobbit at E3 I was seriously in shock. I've not seen a cinematic this promising since Gandalf fought the Balrog! Take a look, and judge for yourself! [More]

Want to pre-order The Hobbit and be the first to play your way through this beautiful new game? Follow these links for your gaming system. [PS2] [GameCube] [PC] [XBox] [GameBoy]

[2Jedismom]

Think that first one is of Gandalf at the Grey Havens? Or Minus Tirith, at the crowning?

[HairOfTheDog]

Ooh.... the Grey Havens hadn't occurred to me.... could be - the writing in the arch and the relative curviness of the architecture looks more Elvish than Gondorian.

I thought Minus Tirith initially, but I don't think it is at the crowning because the place looks dark and old and unfestive... grass growing up in the cracks.... Arwen would not have stood for that at the crowning or the wedding.

[KantianBurke]

what sword is Gandalf using? I remember reading in the Hobbit how he used a sword of Gondolin. Can't remember a reference elsewhere.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

My first thought was, it might be the place where Gandalf shows Aragorn the White Tree sapling. IIRC, wasn't it some broken down old place up in the mountains?

But, then I realized that scene probably won't be in the movie, as they have yet to reference the White Tree at all.

Now I'm going with it being the Grey Havens.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Glamdring the Foe Hammer.

And, am I crazy, or is that blood on his upper lip?

[KantianBurke]

biter or beater? :>

[HairOfTheDog]

Gandalf is using there the same Glamdring he had in the other two films.... It is an elvish blade, I didn't remember its history, but The Hobbit confirms what you say!

Elrond knew all about runes of every kind. That day he looked at the swords they had brought from the trolls' lair, and he said: "These are not troll-make. They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago. This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin-cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade. This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foe-hammer that the king of Gondolin once wore. Keep them well!"

"Whence did the trolls get them, I wonder?" said Thorin looking at his sword with new interest.

"I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains of the North. I have heard that there are still forgotten treasures of old to be found in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria, since the dwarf and goblin war."

~ The Hobbit, Chapter 3, A Short Rest.

Gimli the dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel-rings, for dwarves make light of burdens; and in his belt was a broad-bladed axe. Legolas had a bow and a quiver, and at his belt a long white knife. The younger hobbits wore the swords that they had taken from the barrow; but Frodo took only Sting; and his mail-coat, as Bilbo wished, remained hidden. Gandalf bore his staff, but girt at his side was the elven-sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain. ~FoTR: The Ring Goes South

[HairOfTheDog]

The white tree appears on Aragorn's tunic up at our thread header, and on the banners that I have seen.... It might be in!