One Cast To Rule Them All

Sarah - 27 - PDX I've been threatening to make a blog dedicated to the lotr cast and production team probably since 2003, so here's me following through. Main Blog

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Legal issues with the Tolkien Estate aside, you couldn’t remake LOTR anyway. Why? Because of the theme music. Yeah. Like what are you going to do? “Yes, we need a score that lives up to Howard Shore’s Lord of The Rings, or is at least cool enough to, y’know, do it’s own thing.” Like, you can’t. You just straight up can’t. Go ahead and remake Star Wars with different music why don’t you. You’re hearing the Fellowship theme in your head right now, aren’t you? You know you are. It’s that powerful. What can you do? Nothing. That’s it. That’s Lord of The Rings. Goodbye.

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PHILIPPA BOYENS: I heard him sing the Scottish national anthem at Elijah’s thanksgiving party in Queenstown, and I thought wow that’s a good voice, but then when I heard him doing “Delilah,” I thought wow this guy can really sing.

BILLY BOYD: Pete asked me if I could write something. And I said, yeah, well, you know I’ll have a go. And they gave what they wanted the words to be, which is a poem from The Fellowship.

JOHN NOBLE: He came on the set that day and no one had heard it. And then he opened his mouth, and this glorious thing came out.

BILLY BOYD: And we got to record that at Abbey Road Studios in London. That was just a huge highlight, huge highlight of my career.

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Just had to update my age in my bio from 23 to 27 so... sorry for not being active I guess

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miranda.otto 

Farewell Reel LOTR. Found this the other day going through the cupboards. Brought back so many great memories . Beautiful days. 🖤⚔️🙏🌍 miss you NZ miss you fellowship

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ELIJAH: A lot of practice for sword fighting for me for this sequence [Weathertop] and I don't think there's any sword fighting. SEAN A: You dropped the sword the first time you got a chance to use it. ELIJAH: I swear, there were weeks and weeks of practice.

[teathattast]

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you: how are you coping with quarantine?

me: *wistfully* remember the Rivendell bigature?

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[first-son-of-finwe]

So anyway Christopher Tolkien literally took 70 boxes of his father’s disorganised notes and spent his whole life turning them into something that could be read, appreciated, studied and loved. Words can’t express how much this man did for everyone to whom Tolkien’s work means something…thank you so much, Christopher. Safe journey to the white shores under a swift sunrise.

[ranmagender]

I often joke that “J.R.R Tolkien published more books dead than alive” but thats mainly due to the lifetime of work Christopher Tolkien did and the many books that were Christopher Tolkien “edited” were essentially co-authored between him and his deceased father.

May he be remembered as fondly as his father.

RIP Christopher

[msilverstar]

2016 vs. 2003, oh Dom, never change!

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Peter: I turned the tide. 

Fran: You did?

Peter: No, it wasn’t Viggo at all, really.

Fran:  It was your rock.

Peter: It was my spear that I threw, you see, It actually killed some very vitally important Uruk-hai commander, and the Uruks, basically, lose their way and from that point on there’s really no hope that they’re going to win.

Peter: And we just have to edit the film in a way that looks like Viggo’s doing it, of course – you know, Aragorn’s doing it – but it really is a whole… There’s –. The truth lies behind the scenes, and it really starts with that spear that I threw.

Fran: Oh.

Peter: Don’t tell him about that!

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Karl, Liv & Viggo @ RotK Berlin Premiere (2003)

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merry christmas from the lotr cast

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Merry Christmas from some unfortunately dressed hobbits

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