Weren't there beacons to the south as well as to the north (in the book)?
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
sumi - Jan 22, 2004 9:25:27 am PST #1469 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Beverly - Jan 22, 2004 2:28:39 pm PST #1470 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
When Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Eomer and the standard bearer ride up to the Black Gate, for just a second you can clearly see Pippin's scale double's face. I guess they figured since she was wearing a helmet no one would notice.
Aims - Jan 22, 2004 2:36:34 pm PST #1471 of 3902
Shit's all sorts of different now.
In watching various FYC ads on tv, something occured to me.
When Aragorn is making his "...come together in freedom..." speech, he looks really constipated.
Volans - Jan 22, 2004 3:29:48 pm PST #1472 of 3902
move out and draw fire
Looking for a Gollum photo to use on a website mockup...found this instead.
Micole - Jan 22, 2004 7:46:23 pm PST #1473 of 3902
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
At one point, when Frodo is confronting Faramir in the cave in The Two Towers, they tried out having Frodo partway-transformed-to-Gollum makeup. It's not in the extended edition movie body, but it is in one of the commentaries.
Connie Neil - Jan 22, 2004 7:51:24 pm PST #1474 of 3902
brillig
I'm so glad they skipped the makeup on that scene. I hated the Morphing!Bilbo in Rivendell. Not everything has to physically expressed. If you've got good actors, they can show enough mental/spiritual deterioration to get the point across. I would trust Sir Ian Holm to look nearly demonically possessed.
Jeff Mejia - Jan 23, 2004 4:15:49 am PST #1475 of 3902
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
I'm so glad they skipped the makeup on that scene. I hated the Morphing!Bilbo in Rivendell. Not everything has to physically expressed. If you've got good actors, they can show enough mental/spiritual deterioration to get the point across. I would trust Sir Ian Holm to look nearly demonically possessed.
The thing of it is, in the book, they did have Bilbo appear (to Frodo) to change. I thought the makeup in the scene was an effective echo of what Frodo was experiencing.
(They had a similar scene in Return where Frodo hallucinated Sam morphing into an orc, in the tower of Cirith Ungol, when Sam was holding the ring and offering to hold it for Frodo for a little while. This time, in the movie, they just went into the slo-mo, auditory hallucination mode.)
tina f. - Jan 23, 2004 4:39:51 am PST #1476 of 3902
I saw this morning on CNN that RotK won the Chicago Critics film of the year award. I also saw that there are 45 members of the Chicago Film Critics Assoc. Aren't there only two major papers in Chicago?? Seems like a lot of critics.
Nutty - Jan 23, 2004 4:45:06 am PST #1477 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
they tried out having Frodo partway-transformed-to-Gollum makeup.
And he looked like he really enjoyed those teeth. I mean, no less so than the airbrush they used to make him veiny and gross, but he was showing off the teeth with great elan.
Agreed that it wouldn't really work in the movie. There is such a thing as too much explicitness, and I'm glad Jackson can sometimes pull back on the reins.
tina f. - Jan 23, 2004 4:51:07 am PST #1478 of 3902