Skipping a bunch of posts to say that I just saw it again, and the pumpkin hobbit at the end? I think that was Andy Serkis.
Be back with the gender discussion at some point.
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
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.
Volans - Dec 19, 2003 3:24:17 pm PST #435 of 3902
move out and draw fire
P.M. Marc - Dec 19, 2003 3:41:06 pm PST #436 of 3902
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Skipping a bunch of posts to say that I just saw it again, and the pumpkin hobbit at the end? I think that was Andy Serkis.
Dude! I've been wondering that.
Also, I have asked twice (in real life) if peeps thought the "pumpkin stroking hobbit" was Serkis, only to get funny looks and have to explain that Pumpkin Stroking was NOT a euphemism.
Sean K - Dec 19, 2003 3:42:46 pm PST #437 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
only to get funny looks and have to explain that Pumpkin Stroking was NOT a euphemism.
You've been asking this question of people who know you well?
P.M. Marc - Dec 19, 2003 3:43:13 pm PST #438 of 3902
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
You've been asking this question of people who know you well?
Husband and workmates.
Sean K - Dec 19, 2003 3:48:15 pm PST #439 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm just sayin'... If you were to start talking to me about the hobbit who was stroking his pumpkin, I'd be imagining a short guy with a bulbous orange member...
Connie Neil - Dec 19, 2003 4:07:35 pm PST #440 of 3902
brillig
So, is there a Ballista Master for the big crossbows from Helm's Deep? That would be all different kinds of all right. If there isn't, I got dibs on the seige weaponry.
Hubby sighed deeply when the siege weapons opened up at Minas Tirith. That's the job he was offered when they were filming, if he could have gotten to New Zealand. Sigh.
MechaKrelboyne - Dec 19, 2003 4:13:57 pm PST #441 of 3902
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
Wow. I've exchanged words in a box with someone who's married to someone who was almost the Ballista Master. I think I need a moment here.
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 4:28:16 pm PST #442 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Judging from a clip I just saw on a Beyond the Movie special, Legolas may get hammered in the RotK EE. I'm a) glad it didn't make it into the theatrical and b) excited to see it whenever it shows up.
Couldn't watch the special itself -- just FFed through for clips I hadn't seen in the movie -- they also show a bit of Merry swearing fealty. I had the misfortune to read an interview with John Rhys-Davies which means I'm not quite comfortable listening to him narrate a history piece.
Jessica - Dec 19, 2003 5:43:20 pm PST #443 of 3902
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I have a slightly random question for anyone with quick access to an FotR transcript (I'm not at home, or I'd check myself) -- do they ever say "Weathertop" in that movie? Obviously the fans have always referred to it that way, but in the movie, I noticed that it was introduced by Aragorn saying "There is the great watchtower of SomeGuyIForget." And then in RotK, both Gandalf and Frodo call it Weathertop, but I can't remember an in-film reference to it that way in either FotR or TTT.
Anne W. - Dec 19, 2003 5:48:38 pm PST #444 of 3902
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I liked this bit from the PJ interview linked to up above:
But the gruesome sensibility that has been honed since his days as a director of cult horror films such as 1987's aptly titled Bad Taste (about flesh-eating aliens) has changed little. He still retains a mirthful sense of the macabre, such as when the battalion of orcs in The Return of the King use catapults to launch severed heads at attackers. Tolkien wrote it, but Jackson captured the rain of noggins in all its gory glory.
"I remember that day," he says, smiling with satisfaction, "because the mayor (of Wellington) came down to the set. I thought, 'If he is coming, he might as well help out.' So we had the mayor throwing these severed heads at the crowd while we were shooting. He quite enjoyed himself."
I think one of the things that makes LotR so wonderful is that it seems as if Peter Jackson (and those who work with him) understand that movie-making really should be fun and exciting. I imagine that plays a huge part in why the whole cast and crew always seems so enthusiastic and inspired by the whole thing.