I've been watching more bonus features from my movies. I had already watched them for Lord of the Rings, but that was probably over 10 years ago. I thought I might as well watch them again. And I'm glad I did. I'm much more fascinated now about how things are made.
Like how the armor and weapons were made without modern techniques such as welding. And they had to make so much of it!
I do remember a few things. Like how poor Sam cut his foot open on a piece of glass. And how Aragorn almost drowned in the river. Oh, man.
It's always fun hearing the actors' stories too. Like how Gimli saw a team of people hauling all this heavy stuff to him, which turned out to be 70 pounds of armor. Which he then had to put on before running around on hills. Or how Gandalf, at age 61, was running up and down mountains. And how Eowyn said how easy it was going to be to fall in love with Aragorn.
Filming the battle of Helm's Deep was a nightmare. Everyone was drenched and exhausted all the time. The people playing the orcs were trying to encourage each other, so you'd see the orcs in full costume patting each other on the back, or napping in corners.
They built Treebeard's hands, so they could film Merry and Pippin being carried around. It was so tricky to get them in there that they'd just leave the two of them in the hands while they had snack breaks (elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper). I also had no idea that Treebeard and Gimli are the same person.
They built Hobbiton a year early, so they could grow all the beautiful Hobbit gardens. I'd love to visit Hobbiton (and New Zealand in general).
But I think my favorite new thing I learned was about the great battle in front of Minas Tirith. They filmmakers sent out a call across New Zealand for all available riders to come with their horses. When you see Rohan's troops charging, you're seeing 500 horsemen. Wooow, no wonder that charge looks so amazing!
You're going to be getting more posts like this. It's so fun to learn about XD
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