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Instead of trying to digitally reverse age actors for The Hunt for Gollum I think they should abandon the script entirely and just put Viggo Mortensen in costume and film him chasing Andy Serkis in a leotard across the scenic landscapes of Aotearoa. Give Andy Serkis a head start. Viggo will probably become Aragorn several hours into the chase. Locals can aid or hinder as they see fit.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson
that's true love
I honestly can't believe I haven't seen this poll yet
Where should the fuck go in Fellowship of the Ring?
"Men? Men are fucking weak." - Elrond
"They have a fucking cave troll." - Boromir
"It comes in fucking pints?" - Pippin
"The dwarf breathes so loud, we could have shot him in the fucking dark." - Hald
"Knock your fucking head against these doors, Peregrin Took!" - Gandalf
"Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your fucking stupidity!" - Gandalf
"A little more fucking caution from you, Mr. Underhill." - Aragorn
"You were supposed to stick it in the fucking ground!" - Merry
"Nobody fucking tosses a dwarf!" - Gimli
op you left the best one out/put in the tags
J.R.R. Tolkien writing Elvish, 1968.
Somehow this is the first time I’ve noticed that Aragorn puts on Boromir’s wrist cuffs after he dies. And of course he’s got that necklace from Arwen. And somehow whenever people try to write a character like him they make him cold and hesitant to show affection. But when you look at the real deal all you see is that this is a man with love in his heart.
favorite bits of the cast interviews in the LOTR special features:
Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Wood’s “oh it hurts, babes, and I can’t ride the horse, babes” and Viggo Mortensen’s “they can be very fragile, elves, especially the…Mirkwood strain…”)
Ian McKellen commenting that “they never did find any suitable underwear for Gandalf…”
Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters “one could perhaps say something about Mr. Monaghan’s…proclivities…”
Dominic Monaghan’s imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. “You have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!”
John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying “if an elf and a dwarf are in a boat…and…the boat goes under…let us say that the blame was not placed on the elf” while Orlando Bloom splutters “he’s a big guy, man!”
Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings
Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Wood’s scale double) started telling him “if the boat tips over…save yourself…I can’t swim.”
Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other
Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, “I cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.”
Viggo Mortensen mentioning that he left a weekend rehearsal and went walking down the street still swinging his sword around, and promptly got the cops called on him
#i literally hold every film up to the standard of lotr#including the quality of extras#and literally no other film will ever compare#fucking legends
the lotr cast interviews are literally the real life version of that trope where you cut between characters telling wildly divergent accounts of the same event, each of which paints the other as an incompetent buffoon, and it’s hilarious
Some more wild shit from the extras:
Viggo kissing Billy Boyd square on the mouth during the filming of Sam’s wedding
The whole thing where Viggo and the stunt men would smash their foreheads together as a greeting and then one time Viggo did it to Orlando Bloom and left a giant mark
When he filmed fight scenes Johnathan Rhys-Davies would hit every single stunt man consistently
Viggo would LITERALLY just go and fish in the river while they were filming
That one video where I think Billy and Dominic are comparing their dicks
During the fight with Lurtz at the end of fellowship that knife that gets thrown at Aragorn is a Real Knife and Viggo just fucking hit it away with his Real Sword and the sound that’s in the movie is the actual sound it made
The new Zealand extras did a haka to honor Viggo Mortensen after the film was done
How are we forgetting Dominic Monaghan putting on a fake accent to conduct an incognito interview Elijah Wood and asking him when he will wear wigs
Oh and also the hobbit actors making up a fake game called ‘tig’ just to mess with Elijah who fully believed it was a real game and tried to learn all the increasingly dumb fake rules
“Poor Boromir! I could not see what happened to him. It was a trial for such a man: a warrior, and a lord of men. Galadriel told me that he was in peril. But he escaped in the end. I am glad. It was not in vain that the young hobbits came with us, if only for Boromir’s sake.”
Okay I know we always go on about Marvel’s uncanny casting ability.
But if you thought they were the only ones, let me draw your attention to this man:
Viggo Mortensen, aka Aragorn son of Arathorn, aka Sexiest Ranger in Middle Earth
would hike, often for more than a day, to remote filming locations, in costume, for the sake of authenticity
was the best swordsman Bob Anderson (swordsmaster/instructor for LotR, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc) says he has ever trained
occasionally writes poetry (more book!canon than film!canon but um hello)
does all his own stunts
lived all over and speaks about 23940209384 languages
you know that scene at the end of Fellowship when he’s fighting the Uruk-hai? And one throws a dagger at him and he hits it away with his sword? Yeah, the guy who threw it was supposed to miss, but accidentally threw it directly at Viggo. Who just casually Aragorned and hit it away.
They actually cast Aragorn to play Aragorn
Can I just add a few things?
Would randomly give chocolates to the hobbits
According to John Rhys-Davis (aka Gimli), whenever you have a large cast, one or two actors will naturally become the leaders. Guess who ended up in that role.
Single-handedly convinced cast and crew to camp out to shoot a scene in the sunrise
Once hit a wild rabbit with his car by accident. Promptly stopped his car and went to see if the rabbit was dead, needed a vet or if the only merciful thing to do was to finish killing him. The rabbit was dead. Viggo realized he was hungry. So he took the rabbit, made a fire by the roadside and ate it.
According to cast and crew, sometimes you’d just see him disappear in the middle of the night and suddenly he’d come back with fish he’d caught
Had his sword with him at all times. Slept with once.
The best horse rider of the cast, hands down. Rides better than lots of pros, according to a horse trainer. Couldn’t bear to part with his horse at the end of the shooting, so he bough him. The next movie of his also involved horses, and he bought his horse in that one, too.
Knows how to survive in the wild. I’m not kidding.
Hand-stitched a few things in his costume for an authentic “I live away from civilization” Ranger feel. Also told the weapons department to make him a small bow because “Aragorn lives in the wild, he needs a hunting bow, or he’ll starve to death” - literally nobody else had thought about that. Also requested a small stone to sharpen his sword. Suggested that Aragorn would take Boromir’s arm guards after his death.
Speaking of hand-stitching, once he was touring Japan with a reporter for an article. Walked into a store, took a tshirt, bought it, cut off the print and hand-stitched it into the hat he was wearing. The reporter was going “?????????” the entire time.
Peter Jackson literally sometimes called him Aragorn by accident
They tried to give the role to Nicolas Cage first, though.
Ooh ooh I’ve got some:
Once nearly got arrested because he was walking down the street after rehearsal practicing sword moves and someone called the cops on him
Broke his toe during filming and the result is onscreen because he just rolled with it
Spent the whole running montage at the beginning of TTT running with a broken toe
Also broke a tooth off while filming Helm’s Deep and legit tried to just stick it back into his mouth and keep going but the crew dragged him to a dentist over lunch break. in costume.
liked to take photographs and put them around his mirror in his trailer, by the end of the shoot there was no mirror left
insisted on filming the scene with Aragorn floating down the river in TTT himself, almost drowned doing it
also, IIRC, bought a horse for another person (I think it was Liv Tyler’s riding double?) after filming because she got super attached to it too
takes the piss out of Orlando Bloom on the special features for going on about his broken rib too much and it’s completely glorious
had much less training (sword and the rest) than the others because he was cast late (i think he came in and had just a few weeks of training instead of months) (for the cast thing, they had cast someone too young at first and then cast him)
didn’t know LOTR, his son had read the book and told him to go for it
let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them
everyone knows that the real way to show someone you love them is to find them a really cool rock. not a diamond. just a neat rock that you think they will enjoy
Not a rock THE ARKENSTONE
Why just one rock Why not three Why not the silmarils
#i’m pretty sure there’s an entire book on the topic ‘why not silmarils’ (x)
And one on why not the arkenstone
You’re right. Just get them a ring.
do not get them a ring
Can’t not reblog this again
LOTR’s concept artists designed the films as a “journey back in time”
So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences
We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s
But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time.
Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture
Rohan is even farther back, based on old anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)
Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture
And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times
And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed, and life didn’t yet exist
And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as
“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”
Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.
What is your gender now/what did you get?
A person (real or fictional)
An animal
A plant/fungus/otherwise alive non-animal
A non-living natural thing (e.g. a rock) or a natural phenomenon (e.g. tornado)
A place
A period of time or a specific event
A concept
A man-made object
A work of art or a piece of media
A field of study or a specific research
Something else? Put in tags
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DURIN IV & ANNATAR THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Rings of Power — 2.03
i love dwarves 😂 this is the funniest thing ive seen all day
The Charlies learn about "Saurondriel" and "Haladriel"
screaming casually out my window lmao
Whenever you're stabbed, you leave it in.
NIA TOWLE and MAXIM BALDRY as ESTRID and ISILDUR
YALL I CANT I LOVE THEM
