Random Fact Friday

So this week you all will get a little about The Lord of the Rings...
Wait a couple months and we'll get into The Hobbit (Which I am really excited to see btw)


1- 27 copies of the book were used up in the process of creating the screenplay, between highlighting and note-making and page-tearing.


2- In The Silmarilion, Sauron has an even scarier, even more powerful boss called Morgoth.


3- Aragorn wears Boromir's gauntlets throughout the second and third films in tribute to his fallen friend.


4- Christopher Lee is the only cast member who met Tolkien in person.


5- Viggo Mortensen broke his toe when kicking a helmet at the scene of the Uruk-hai massacre, which is part of the reason why he falls to his knees, crying out.


6- During the running scenes early in Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen had that broken toe, Gimli size-double Brett Beatty had a dislocated knee and Orlando Bloom had cracked a rib falling from a horse.


7- The scene where the Black Riders chase Arwen and Frodo was interrupted by Queenstown flooding. The cast, including Liv Tyler, went to help sandbag the town against the floods while filming was suspended.


8- Just to speak was an acting challenge for Tyler, who noted that she had more dialogue in Elvish than in English. She learned some of the language that Tolkien invented, and for lines in English that needed to be translated into Arwen's tongue, an Elvish expert, a professor back in the States, was consulted, and he would send back the translated lines to Tyler's Elvish dialogue coach. Tyler also had to deepen her high, breathy voice, something she accomplished by using a diaphragm technique she'd learned from her famous singing parents (Bebe Buell and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler). "It hurt," she said. "If I have really powerful or emotional scenes, I'll be sick, I'll have a stomach ache afterwards, because it's coming from there."


9- The Lord of the Rings' and the 'Star Wars' prequels shared more than just Christopher Lee. They also shared a friendly rivalry. While the Tolkien trilogy was filming in New Zealand, 'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' was filming nearby in Australia. In an outtake of the scene where Gandalf is supposed to refer to a menacing flock of crows as "spies of Saruman," McKellen instead quips, "Spies of 'Star Wars!'" There was even a surreptitious visit to the 'Star Wars' set by some of the Fellowship. Of the pop culture clash, Wood said, "It was weird. It was bloody strange. 'Lord of the Rings,' we were constantly dirty and rough. The world of Middle-earth that we portrayed in the film is very lived-in and messy. Whereas, going on to 'Star Wars,' their sets were pristine, and they were shooting digitally, so there wasn't much equipment, and they had a full editing thing right on the set. It was cool, all air-conditioned, and there weren't many people around, and everyone was nice and well-dressed. It was just bizarre because we were coming from a world of 5 a.m. to 8 at night, and it was craziness all the time, and always snow and rain. So it was a total culture shock for us. We referred to each other as hobbits, and they were like, 'What world are you from?"


10-There had been many attempts to make a live-action version of 'Lord of the Rings' dating back to the 1950s. In the 1960s, the Beatles wanted to star in a version (it would have featured John Lennon as Gollum, Paul McCartney as Frodo, George Harrison as Gandalf, and Ringo Starr as Sam), and they approached Stanley Kubrick to direct, but he decided the project was too daunting.


Thats about it,

Elliott

Oregon is 3-0