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Approximately 5000 terminally ill orcs volunteered to die in fight scenes. This is what real bravery looks like people!
Viggo Mortensen was so dedicated to his role that he had Peter Jackson write down all of his lives in advance so he could MEMORIZE THEM
Shrinking technology hadn’t been perfected in the early 2000s, so every cast member who wasn’t a hobbit (including the horses!) had to take experimental growth hormones in order to reach the right apparent size.
Shrinking technology has since gotten most of them back to normal, but Ian McKellen stubbornly refuses, saying he likes his ‘big stompy stompers and flappy flappers’
The Entish Actors Guild is run by the deeply conservative Church of Orome, which forbids entwives from acting. Peter Jackson came up with the story about all the entwives leaving to explain the lack of women. (In fact, *every* Ent in the cast is happily married)
There were contractual difficulties with the Eagles (the birds, not the band. Peter Jackson had nothing but praise for the band) throughout shooting.
This is why they show up so rarely, and in fact most of Frodo and Sam’s journey was written in two days by a manic Peter Jackson after the Eagles refused to film the original ‘just fly them straight to Mount Doom’ script
The surprise on Pippin’s face when the Eagles show up after Mount Doom erupts is genuine. No one knew they were going to show up that day, and it was assumed that Elijah Wood and Sean Astin would just die in the eruption after filming their tearful goodbye.
Hugo Weaving plays the ~7000 year old Elrond, despite being only 2000 years old himself
Peter Jackson has a cameo in *every* scene. Usually he just took his clothes off and played one of the animals in the background, but he also played several boulders hurled by catapults, Saruman’s beard, and the smoke ship Gandalf blows in the first movie.
They wanted to have a real dragon show up at Bilbo’s party, but it was otter mating season and Bendyflip Crimblejimblejammer was unavailable for filming
Aragorn’s entire speech at the Black Gates was ad-libbed. He felt that the original line (‘Let’s wrassle!’) was too serious, and some humor was needed to counterbalance the scene.
Lurz was actually several large Italian sausages on a scarecrow.
No one in the cast or crew could tell Merry and Pippin apart, and they used this to switch roles more than once. Watch again and see if you can tell who’s playing who in each scene!
Amazing! Every detail I learn just makes me appreciate this fantastic movie series even more.
doing some experiments in blender 2.8 👀👀 it’s super freezy/crashy BUT I LIKE IT.. STABLE BUILD WHEn
(animated to yaeiji’s beautiful cover of passionfruit by drake!)
Picking salmon berries, finding banana slugs, conquering stinging nettles, hiking, and watching sheep dog trials with Zoë ( @zauxie)!!! What a day!!!! The PNW butches are back at it again!!!!!
Looking at these pics has me missing the sun and green leaves…I can’t wait for it to be spring again!
my teeth were smashed out in a transphobic assault and i’m so ridiculously close to being able to get a heavy piece of dental work done, i’m only about 375 dollars away from being able to make an appointment that’s going to give me more than one tooth that i can actually chew with and eating won’t be nearly as much of an agonizing struggle, if anyone can contribute anything it would be so fucking incredible, if multiple throw in five or ten bucks i’ll be there in no time and can schedule the appointment, please please please if anyone can contribute it will be appreciated so much and i will be grateful beyond words 🖤
and i have a venmo and cashapp, both of those are LyrafromtheInternet, again i’m so fucking grateful for any help with this, i’m working full-time and i have medicaid but i’m just not able to afford it myself with my pay and my insurance will only cover extractions right now which will only hurt me at this point and leave me without the few teeth i have to be able to chew with. begging sucks, but i’m fucking desperate and hopeful. thank you 💜
just 325 to go!!!
250 away!!!!!!!
225 to go, if anyone is feeling in the christmas spirit i might be able to get this done shortly after the new year!!
hello kitty doesn’t like xanax or knives or blood or any of those awful things your post with her! she likes apple pie, baking cookies, and her friends and that’s that!
there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s