{"id":24666,"date":"2004-07-24T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/07\/24\/comic-con-rotk-ee-dvd-panel-review-2\/"},"modified":"2004-07-24T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2004-07-24T15:00:14","slug":"comic-con-rotk-ee-dvd-panel-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/07\/24\/24666-comic-con-rotk-ee-dvd-panel-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con: ROTK EE DVD Panel Review!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>mfissori<\/b> writes: I got back from the san diego comic-con earlier tonight and man, let me tell you, the Rotk ee presentation was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>David Wenham and Billy Boyd were there and they were hilarious. <\/p>\n<p>The crowd went completely NUTS for all of the new clips.  But, because the crowd was so loud I had trouble catching all of the dialogue. <\/p>\n<p>The dialogue&#8217;s not word for word and this is not the order in which the clips were shown.  I&#8217;ll just try to get down everything I can remember.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>MAJOR EE SPOILERS BELOW<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>&#8211; Shots of Saruman on top of Orthanc, saying things like &#8220;something festers in the heart of middle-earth&#8221; , &#8220;you are all going to die&#8221;, &#8221; I want no pity or mercy!&#8221;, saruman shooting flames from his staff (I know this sounds kinda hokey but I thought it looked pretty good)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Frodo\/Sam\/Gollum approaching the crossroads. we see sam looking at something and then there is a closeup (pics of which have already appeared online) of the statue&#8217;s head and it&#8217;s crown<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; frodo\/sam in orc costumes marching with orcs, big orc yelling &#8220;move on!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Merry saying &#8220;I know there isn&#8217;t much hope, I know I can&#8217;t do much. I&#8217;m just a hobbit. But I want to help&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mouth of sauron rides out, there is a closeup on his mouth (which looked pretty gross) as he says &#8221; I have a token I was bidden to show thee&#8221; and then he reveals frodo&#8217;s mithril vest and throws it down to the ground. then there is a closeup of pippin who says &#8220;frodo&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Eowyn in bed at edoras, Aragorn is walking away from her but before he can get too far she reaches out and takes his hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; eomer grieving for eowyn (seen in theatrical trailer)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; sam in mordor looking at the dark, red lit sky telling mr. frodo that he sees a light.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; aragorn picks up flaming palantir and says something, the only word I caught was &#8220;Elendil&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; gandalf riding up to witch king making threats, something about sending it into the abyss, witch king responds with his own threat while his sword becomes enflamed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; misc. new shots of the siege of gondor, orcs using small battering ram, fell beast swooping in and picking up soldiers<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; eowyn fighting gothmog (the one eyed orc captain) <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; faramir telling pippin about his childhood, boromir, and his father. pippin says that faramir has &#8221; a different kind of strength&#8221; and that his father will see it eventually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Eowyn and Faramir hold hands and nuzzle at the houses of healing (women in the audience went especially nuts for this scene.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; aragorn\/legolas\/gimli run away from an avalanche of skulls in the paths of the dead <\/p>\n<p>I think this covers most of the new footage shown.<\/p>\n<p>oh, and it was confirmed multiple times that the EE comes out in December.   so far away \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mfissori writes: I got back from the san diego comic-con earlier tonight and man, let me tell you,&#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_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6pQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24666","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=24666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}