I'm just now watching RotK for the 2nd time, and I have one observation and a related question:
The lighting of the beacons REALLY belongs on the big screen, because on my TV, it looked like lightning bugs.
Question: are the beacons in a sort of circle, with Minas Tirith in the middle, so that each beacon that was lit was a response TO Gondor? Or was it a more linear series of beacons, more or less, where they were relaying a message from Gondor to Rohan?
(Legolas? Still the prettiest.)
(Aragorn? As of where I paused the DVD, still not king.)
(Elrond is unhappy about Arwen choosing Aragorn, so he's overseeing the re-forging of the Mighty Sword of Whoop-Ass, because he DAMN well isn't giving them a *new* sword for a wedding gift. It's re-gifting or naught.)
Question: are the beacons in a sort of circle, with Minas Tirith in the middle, so that each beacon that was lit was a response TO Gondor? Or was it a more linear series of beacons, more or less, where they were relaying a message from Gondor to Rohan?
I'm almost positive it's the latter.
I think in the books there were beacons to the north of Minas Tirith to Rohan and to the south towards (I think) Belfalas.
When you look at a map of Middle-earth, you can see that Minas Tirith is on the eastern edge of a mountain range, and Rohan is way westward, on the north side of that range. (Helm's Deep is nestled into that range.) So the beacons are one-to-the-next, from east to west, in a relay from Minas Tirith to the borders of Rohan.
(The same thing happens in the
Agammemnon,
when the Trojan War is over. Clytaemnestra sets up a fire-sign relay so that she will have advance warning when her husband is coming back to port. I mean, because she is planning to kill him rather than come to his aid or anything, but same technique for long-distance signallign when there is no AT&T.)
Woohoo!
The RotKEE comes with a model of Minas Tirith and you can get Minas Morgul with the gift set.
Okay, I think I misinterpreted: you get Minas Tirith with the gift set and if you buy the gift set you can buy Minas Morgul too. (Not a gift with purchase.)
TORN also says that you can pre-order now at Amazon and I am not finding that.
Yay! I like those gift set goodies. I wasn't that keen on the Gollum statue that came with TTT. I would have much rather had something Rohirric, like my own personal Eomer or something.
Who didn't want their own personal Eomer?
I think that this is the best picture.
(There is also a picture of the RotKEE case, discs in front, the Minas Tirith thingy and something that says "Lord of the Rings Symphony" does that mean that the EE of the soundtrack is coming out in December too?)
I answer my own question: Nope.
Howard Shore's website says:
23.04 Creating the LOTR Symphony DVD
New Line Home Entertainment are currently displaying the new Return of the King: Collector's Set at this years ComicCon event. The set will include the four-disc extended edition of the film, along with a Sideshow/Weta statue of Minas Tirith and a Howard Shore Creating the Lord of the Rings Symphony DVD. The set is expeceted to go on sale in December.
p.s. Apparently, I am too excited to make a correct link.
p.p.s. really really unable to correctly link, but I think it's okay now.
