MicktheQuick sends us this great article and amazing picture from The NY Post! It’s a great still from The Two Towers!!
Category: Old Spy Reports
Brendon writes: I’ve had these gathering dust on an old website of mine since Easter 2000. We went for a Easter holiday trip from Hamilton, down past Whakapapa and on to Wellington, looking for LOTR sets on the way. The Whakapapa shots were taken from the same spot, one looking down towards Happy Valley where there was a big boom hanging over the valley itself and there were cables everywhere. No filming though, everyone must have been having a holiday for Easter. The same at the quarry, no one there at all. I really wish we’d tried for a closer look.
A few days ago I reported that a few people began emailing me to tell me that the scene in which Aragorn decapitates Lurtz was cut in the UK. Many more of you have written in to tell me this is not so. Well Adam sent this in today, and I think it just may be the possible answer to the mystery of the ‘Missing Cut’:
I am a projectionist and I noticed yesterday that this (decapitation) scene takes place at the end of reel 8.
This means that more than likely that either the projectionist who built up the movie cut off the end of the reel, or-if the theater was using an older reel to reel setup-the projectionist was a little gung-ho and changed reels on the first signal (the little yellow dot is supposed to appear twice before the changeover occurs.)
From: Thomas Son of Gimli
I’ve seen LOTR two times now. I’ve noticed something that seems rather odd… You all know the scene when the fellowship (or parts of it) meets Arwen for the first time, right? Frodo is sick and they talk for a while, then Arwen takes of with Frodo.
During the conversation they speak Elvish but one of the last things Aragorn says to Arwen sounds a lot like some Nordic language (I’m guessing Danish, Viggos country of origin, I’m from Sweden and Swedish isn’t that far from Danish).
It sounds like he says “Min alskling” which translates into “My Love” or “My Darling”.
From: Bruce
I saw the movie at an afternoon showing in the UK today and they very clumsily cut the scene where Aragorn decapitates Lurtz. I had previously seen it in Canada but those with me noticed the cut due to the jar in the music.
To be precise the scene cuts away the second that Aragorn stabs Lurtz in the chest straight to him running up to Boromir.
I don’t know if this was a one off by the cinema or this has happened all across the UK.
Greetings from Middle Earth,
I have the pleasure of working just off Courtenay Place (where the Embassy, site of the premiere, is). The latest situation is that the Police have closed some of the roads leading into Courtenay Place so that the preparations can get underway.
There are people wandering about with pointed ears. In the last few hours the weather has improved (the rain has stopped & the wind has dropped a little). The weather is at last co-operating. It has been raining since Sunday night. It’s supposed to be
SUMMER!
This brings me to another issue
I suggest that the reason that the film is being so well received is because of the Power that was used to create it. That power being no less than the power of The One itself!
Consider the evidence:
The One is said in the trailers to have “the power to enslave the world”. And what is FOTR doing to those who have seen it?
Ian McKellen, (Gandalf, wielder of one of the Three, Narya?) has long been one of the strongest supporters of the film.
Cate Blanchett, (Galadriel, wielder of another of the Three, Nenya?), has been very supportive too.
Liv Tyler, (Arwen, daughter of Elrond, wiellder of the third of the Three), is also very positive about the movie, maybe she has Vilya now?
From the evidence in the media I speculate that John Rhys-Davies also has been given a ring, one of the Seven.
And as for Harry Knowles of AICN, surely it is obvious that on his visit to NZ he was given a gift, a beautiful ring…
What about TORN’s Quickbeam? Did Quickbeam get a Ring?
And of course we know that the other rings are subject to the will of the wielder of the One
The inscription on the Ring itself gives a clue too
“One Ring to bring them all, and in the Darkness (of the cinema) bind them”
The final piece of evidence, the miraculous improvement in the weather just at the premiere in “Middle Earth”.
It is obvious who is wielding the One on this project. A hobbit of course, but not Frodo.
A new RingLord has arisen.
All Hail the Lord of the Rings
Peter Jackson.
Rufus Redbeard out