[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

The moment at the gate when the rider brings out the mithril shirt and for a moment they think all is lost... is one of my very favorite parts.... and great cinema if PJ were to let us wonder, as he is prone to do..... I don't think he'll cut that.

They cast someone to play The Mouth of Sauron; the Australian actor who played the gyro pilot in the second and third Mad Max movies - Bruce Spence is the name, if memory serves. The scenes have been shot. Bruce is very thin and cadaverous looking; good casting. It would not have made much sense to shoot this scene if The Mouth of Sauron shows up empty-handed.

[HairOfTheDog]

You are right.... I hadn't remembered the voice of Sauron thing...

[maquiladora]

The scene with the Mouth of Sauron was indeed filmed. In fact, it was re-shot again this summer, as Ian McKellen and a few others mentioned, and indeed, throwing down the mithril shirt is indeed in it. The Mouth of Sauron will have very heavy make up, and his most bizarre and frightening feature will be a vertical mouth.