Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) was recently spotted at a photo shoot for ‘Vanity Fair’ in Hollywood, TheOneRing.net Spy Cuthalion managed to square off a few tender moments with our lovely Elven Queen to talk LOTR, this is what Cuthalion reports:
(Cate) is PERFECT! When you are in the room with her, its like she’s glowing. Her voice is perfect, her face is ageless. We are in luck.
Also, Cate hasn’t even had time to read the books in her busy schedule. She is listening to them on tape.
A direct quote, on her role as Galadriel, “I hope I do it justice!” She says Peter Jackson is an amazing director. She had some preliminary pics from Alan Lee with her but was unable to retrieve them. She will start filming in a month. She is perfect and queenly! She is a stunning woman. We as Tolkien fans should be honored.
She says elves will have general english accents, but with a welsh-ish sound, like tapping R’s as such. Cate hasn’t seen the internet preview, so I gave her lordoftherings.net. She hopes to download the internet trailer. That’s all! We are blessed!
Thanks to Cuthalion for the impromptu interview!
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Hello again Ringers!!! We have finally gotten a correct answer to the fun section posted April 29th!!! The winner was Kale Jones, Great job Kale!!!!!!!
The answers were:
1) Blooting
2) Ghan-Buri-Ghan
3) Gorbag
Here are the questions for today:
1) “What was the name of the dwarf, who made the West Gate?”
2) “llionrshi” (Scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “…. and when their spears have rotted and rusted, long may there mound still stand and guard the Fords of Isen!” (Who said this?)
As always, Mail me with your answers, the 1st person to send all 3 correct answers in one mailing will be posted here next time!!! Good Luck….Gamgee
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From Sprint comes the latest on what has recently been shot in the Rangipo region and around Tongariro lately, no details as of WHAT was shot, only the scenes…
What has been shot in the recent days has been the following.
The Black Gates of Mordor scenes, Chetwood Forest, Emyn Muil West, The foot of Mount Doom and the Gorgorath Plains.
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A little report on how PJ is using his body doubles, and how it’s not all CGI ‘Shrinking’ that’s going on down in NZ, plus the names of a few of these ‘Body Doubles’ you’ll never see anywhere else! [More]
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As we all know, Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves and Men come in all shapes and sizes, but in the real world the actors who are playing these characters are of average size and build. We have all heard about the digital ‘shrinking’ that WETA and Peter Jackson are planning to use, but there are more realistic (yes I said more realistic) than CGI and much cheaper ways to get the process done:
Body Doubles
And in this case, it seems that almost every character has their ‘Large’ or ‘Small’ double waiting on the sidelines to step in front of the camera.
We realize that the actors playing the hobbits would need doubles of much smaller stature to stand in at certain parts of the story, but why would, say Gandalf and Legolas need ‘large’ doubles? Well, just flip the coin, and look at it the other way: if we have a shot of the Frodo body double walking along with Ian McKellen, it looks perfect, but what if we wanted a shot of Elijah Wood walking along with Gandalf? Elijah and Ian do not match the proportions of Frodo and Gandalf, so in comes the 7 foot tall Gandalf stand-in and suddenly Elijah is Hobbit-sized!
TheOneRing.net has learned the names of some of the ‘small’ and ‘large’ body doubles; these folks are unknowns, but work just as hard as the stars themselves!
From an earlier report we know that the Hobbit body doubles are mostly from India. I do think, however that most of the rest are local Kiwis, here they are:
Gimli (Small): Brett Beattie
Legolas (Big): Paul Randall
Gandalf (Big): Paul Randall
Pippin (Small): Fon
Merry (Small): Kiran Shah/Murugan
Sam (Small): Bhoja Kannada
Most of the Hobbits, and as you can see Gandalf and Legolas, have the same body doubles… they must switch around from time to time.
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