{"id":21920,"date":"1999-10-19T11:27:47","date_gmt":"1999-10-19T16:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/10\/19\/weathertop\/"},"modified":"1999-10-19T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"1999-10-19T16:27:47","slug":"weathertop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/10\/19\/21920-weathertop\/","title":{"rendered":"Weathertop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">This news story from <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lordoftheringsmovie.com\/#PhotosFromWeathertop\">Imraldis<\/a>. This could very well be Weathertop, but here&#8217;s one theory: IF it is Weathertop, then they cannot be filming Gandalf there, so we will not see that in the film. a) because Ian Mckellen isn&#8217;t there, and won&#8217;t be there for another 2 and 1\/2 months.  b) They&#8217;d never set up a set for just the Hobbits + Aragorn, tear it down, and then rebuild it again in January for McKellen, you can&#8217;t do that. So that means that IF this is Weathertop, we will not see Gandalf&#8217;s lightening fight there, unless they use a stand in. Or Unless this isn&#8217;t Weathertop, but some other scene&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>It appears that part of the film will be shot at Harcourt Park in Upper Hutt, in the next couple of weeks. It appears to be a small battle scene, as they have bought in a number of trees which have been cut up to reflect lightning strikes. There are also a couple of large trees that have been mounted on pivorts, so they can fall after being hit by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect it may be when the ringwraiths attacked Gandalf at Weathertop, thats the only occassion I can recall large pyrotechnics outdoors in the movie. If anyone has a digital camera you can pretty much just walk in and take some pictures. I was shooed off by a security man, but its a public park so there are no access issues at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>He said it would all be gone in a couple of weeks, so I assume the filming will be taking place fairly soon.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Click here for some promotional <a HREF=\"http:\/\/webnz.com\/kiwi-camps\/parks\/39harcourt.html\">info<\/a> of the area.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on getting better pics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news story from Imraldis. This could very well be Weathertop, but here&#8217;s one theory: IF it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5Hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}