Cameos, cameos everywhere … Here’s just a few of the cameos from Return of the King – there’s probably lots more as well.
- Sean Astin’s daughter plays Elanor, daughter of Sam and Rosie.
- Sarah McLeod’s daughter plays Frodo, son of Sam and rosie.
- Peter Jackson’s children have cameos as Gondorian children.
- Peter Jackson is the captain of the Corsairs of Umbar. He also had a longer ‘cameo’ of around two minutes where he battles a major character – reportedly Legolas – but decided to cut it from the theatrical release. He spoke about this at the world premiere press conference in Wellington.
- TORn Staffer Quickbeam has a few seconds of fame as a Gondorian soldier.
- Previsualisation supervisor Christian Rivers as the Gondorian soldier in charge of the beacon.
- Senior prosthetics supervisor Gino Acevedo is a Corsair of Umbar.
- Richard Taylor is a Corsair of Umbar.
- Bret McKenzie makes a reappearance as Figwit (one of Arwen’s escorts) and even gets to speak some lines!
- John Howe appears as a Gondorian soldier.
- Royn Tolkien plays a Gondorian ranger preparing the defences of the ruined city of Osgiliath, braced for an assault by the evil lord Sauron’s armies of orcs. Read more on BBC Online
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David Salo is the linguist who supplied all the dialogue in Middle-earth languages for the Lord of the Rings movies. He offered to answer a bunch of questions for the readers of Muse. If you’re interested in Tolkien’s languanges, this may be of interest to you. Other excellent languange resources include Ardalambion and Elvish.org. [More]
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After a heads up from Ringers Bramblerose and Ringer88 I went poking around the interweb, and eventually discovered what I believe to be the LoTR “Supertrailer” from the DVD on the limited edition RoTK soundtrack. It’s a large (50MB) download, and personally, I don’t like the pacing and cuts (and there’s no new RoTK scenes) but if you have bandwidth to burn, point your Quicktime at this. [More] !!!Major Spoilers!!!
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Well, the headline says it all, but WOW! Check it out! A 9.1 rating with 12,000 votes after only a few days! More
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While a bit… indelicate, SFGate makes a great case for the return of the intermission. Super-size beverage, anyone? [More]
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The Guardian’s Victoria Barrett writes: Stoic, loyal Samwise Gamgee is the great unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings. But his interpreter – actor Sean Astin – is now planning a life outside Middle Earth. [More]
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