It seems more and more certain that we WILL see Sauron in the movies, according to this report from an extra who was THERE. Nobody’s been able to say yet whether the scene in question is from the Battle of the Last Alliance, when the Ring was cut from Sauron’s finger, or whether he’ll appear at the end of ROTK, but it seems we’ll get more than a quick glimpse. (More)
Day: March 14, 2001
Fantastic spy report from Sylvesterpasemester
“A few months ago me and my friend, was working as extras during the filming of some battlescenes. I have read the books twice and I am very certain that what I saw ain´t in the books. I saw a huge guy with black armour and a huge kind of battleaxe or a hammer, who was standing in the front of a giant bluescreen and there were nine, I repeat !!NINE!! smaller guys with crowns around him. .
There were some kind of spikes attached to the armour and his helmet. It all looked very scary. Around him there lay tons of dead human bodies and a great corps[?] The guy in the giant armour must have been SAURON!!!!!!!! Me, my friend and the rest of the 50 extras ran in terror from this Sauron guy while there was two cameras filming us. It took three takes until the filming crew had what they wanted. From what I have read Sauron never leaves Barad Dur, so this was a big surprise.”
Now, a similar report came in months ago but in less detail, as it was what somebody saw who was passing by on another errand. This really seems to confirm that we will see Sauron. Given that the ancient history of the Ring is included in the movies, we could have guessed that we’d see Sauron at least when Isildur cut the Ring from his finger, but this latest news may mean we get to see him doing his thing at length. Could he even appear at the final battle before the fall of the Dark Tower? One clue will be: What armour were the extras wearing?
Ok, well maybe I don’t, but the folks at ModenHumorist.com have a movie ‘spoiler’ page up that look almost, but not entirely, like AICN. They’ve got some great LOTR ‘news’ and even take a rip at an old Super Spy we had back in the day, ‘Galadriel’. [More]
Ringer Spy SirReal sends us another couple of images of the A and B LOTR posters. It is interesting to note the changes, these two look different even from the one on the official site. [Here and Here]
Apple.com has a nice section on their site on which you can view the original quicktime preview (or preivew as they call it) and send Lord of the Rings iCards to all your friends or favorite associate editors! [More]
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Humm hroem… several people have been telling me this section seems to be temporarily down, keep an eye on it anyway, who knows when it’ll be up and running again…
Another update, Jonathan emailed me to tell me he found a diffirent way to get to the iCards, follow this link directly to the iCards!