[HairOfTheDog]

I'll start:

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'Let it be a light for you, in dark places,
when all other lights go out.'

Frodo gazed in wonder at this marvellous gift that he had so long carried, not guessing its full worth and potency. Seldom had he remembered it on the road, until they came to Morgul Vale, and never had he used it for fear of its revealing light. Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima! he cried, and knew not what he had spoken; for it seemed that another voice spoke through his, clear, untroubled by the foul air of the pit.

~Tolkien "Shelob's Lair

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‘I have received this,’ said Denethor, and laying down his rod he lifted from his lap the thing that he had been gazing at. In each hand he held up one half of a great horn cloven through the middle: a wild-ox horn bound with silver.

‘That is the horn that Boromir always wore!’ cried Pippin.

‘Verily,’ said Denethor. ‘And in my turn I bore it, and so did each eldest son of our house, far back into the vanished years before the failing of the kings, since Vorondil father of Mardil hunted the wild kine of Araw in the far fields of Rhûn. I heard it blowing dim upon the northern marches thirteen days ago, and the River brought it to me, broken: it will wind no more.’ He paused and there was a heavy silence…

~Tolkien "Minas Tirith"

[HairOfTheDog]

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You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
Demosthenes @ 5:18 pm EST

TORn staffer Arathorn typed up part of the Mail on Sunday magazine special for our reading enjoyment. Some very interesting RoTK information in this article ... and, of course, spoilers!

You ain't seen nothing yet

The final part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, promises to be the most thrilling, says Karyn Miller (Mail on Sunday reporter, I presume).

When The Return of the King, the final and most spectacular film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is finally released in December next year, it will have been eight years in the making. It promises to provide a fitting finale to the series.

There will only be a few new characters in the first film, including Denethor, the Steward of the Kingdom of Gondor and the father of Boromir, who is played by respected Australian actor John Noble.

"Denethor resents never being king, and Boromir inherited that bitterness," says Noble. "It's what led Boromir to try to steal the Ring in the first film"

When Gondor is besieged by enemy forces, Denethor, who has fallen under Sauron's influence, becomes desperate and deranged.

"It is my job to show the humanity of the man," says Noble. "He is literally driven mad by grief and fear."

Sauron's henchman, the Mouth of Sauron, also makes his first appearance, although his head is covered by a large helment and all that can be seen of his face is his nose and gaping, decomposing jaws.

We may also see more of Sauron himself. "You can't reduce him to being a big guy striding around in black armour, but he cannot be limited to a flaming eye, either," says Jackson.

"The Sauron in the books is sketchy at best, which makes it hard to turn to turn him (sic.) into a screen villain. But imagine not really seeing Darth Vader for all three Star Wars films. You just can't do it."

This is from an old interview we think, see our earlier report here.

Despite such qualms, Jackson has high hopes for The Return of the King.

"The battles will be the biggest you have ever seen," he says. He can make such a claim with confidence thanks to the help of his special effects company, Weta.

"We have poilted a piece of software that allows us to have 200,000 computer-generated extras fight each other," he says.

"You simply press a button, sit back and watch these enormous battles unfold before your eyes."

The incredible effects can be seen during the opening scenes of The Fellowship of the Ring, and again during the Battle of Helm's Deep in The Two Towers. However, it is in the concluding chapter of the trilogy that this ground-breaking software will be utilised to create the most incredible effects.

Jackson has already earmarked the film's final scene, which takes place amid the sweeping landscape of the Grey Havens, as his favourite.

"To me, it's a culmination of the entire story; it represents what it is to give and what it is to lose," he says. "That scene is probably the most powerful part of the entire film."

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[Long Cut]

Hi, Hair! Please put me ON your "spoiler ping list". I love this kind of stuff!

[Charlie OK]

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[ElfArcher]

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[GretchenEE]

I LOVE the part in Shelob's Lair when Frodo uses Earendil. I am so looking forward to seeing this movie (eleven months from now).

I have the feeling, from seeing FotR, TTT, and the special DVD features, and from all the other stuff I've read on FR and the Internet in general, that these actors and actresses absolutely know they are never going to have another filmmaking experience that even approximates "The Lord of the Rings," and somehow, somehow! they wish they could. Sort of like what the filmmaker makes you feel when Dorothy returns to Kansas.

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[ElfArcher]

Scouring of the Shire spoiler!!!!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=7728

Also there is a bleek discription of the Minas Tirith Tower Hall.

[sneakers]

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