There are some interesting facts surrounding The Lord of
the Rings. Some facts are about the books and others are about the
movies. Many of these facts came from
various websites (http://shinningevenstar.tripod.com/id19.html;
http://bardscribe.hubpages.com/hub/Interesting-and-Little-Known-Facts-about-JRR-Tolkien;
http://www.empireonline.com/features/lord-of-the-rings-100-facts/;
http://www.lotrrulesall.i8.com/funfacts.html;
http://scrapbook.theonering.net/scrapbook/movies/promotional/view/12189 ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_film_trilogy#The_Fellowship
) and I thank them.
So the Facts start:
Here are the Major Actors of the The Lord of the Rings
movies by Peter Jackson:
Aragorn:
Viggo Mortensen
Frodo
Baggins: Elijah Wood
Boromir:
Sean Bean
Merry
Brandybuck: Dominic Monaghan
Samwise
Gamgee: Sean Astin
Gandalf: Ian
McKellen
Gimli: John
Rhys-Davies
Legolas:
Orlando Bloom
Pippen Took:
Billy Boyd
Bilbo
Baggins: Ian Holm
Arwen: Liv
Tyler
Lord
Celeborn: Marton Csokas
Lord Elrond:
Hugo Weaving
Lady
Galadriel: Cate Blanchett
Eowyn:
Miranda Otto
Faramir:
David Wenham
King
Theoden: Bernard Hill
Treebeard
(Voice): John Rhys-Davies
Smeagol/Gollum:
Andy Serkis
Grima
Wormtongue: Brad Dourif
The One Ring
(Voice): Alan Howard
Sauron: Sala
Baker
Saruman:
Christopher Lee
Witch-king
of Angmar: Shane Rangi, Brent McIntyre, Lawrence Makoare, Andy Serkis (as
Voice)
Isildur:
Harry Sinclair
Peter
Jackson: Director
J.R.R.
Tolkien: Author of The Lord of the Rings
Now that you
know who everyone is, we can get to the fun and interesting part…
Orlando
managed to get all of the actors in The Fellowship to get a tattoo of the
Elvish Number 9 except for John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) Viggo
broke a toe or two while kicking a helmet. (See a vid of it in my previous
post) Gimli’s
beard was made from the hair of the belly of a yak. Lord
of the Rings was a major influence
for Star Wars The
face of the Nazgul is based off the face of a salmon There
was over 6 million feet of film shot Rhys-Davies
(Gimli) was the tallest member of the Fellowship. Astin
had to gain 30 pounds to play Sam, oh how delicious… The
Crown originally made for Aragorn’s Coronation was too big, the Jeweler had
taken Viggo’s head measurements all wrong, it fell around his neck and on his
shoulders. There
were 1600 pairs of hobbit feet total used in the making of the films. Tolkien’s
aunt lived at a Bag End, this is where Tolkien got his inspiration for Bag End
in the Shire. “The cave troll in Moria is ‘not really evil;
he's just fallen into bad company’, claimed Jackson.” The battle
cries of the Orcs in Helm’s Deep were actually 25,000 cricket fans chanting
along with words displayed on the big screen.
There
are so many more sweet facts that you might find interesting, but I don’t feel
like typing them all up… check out the URLs above and read to your heart’s
content…
READ
THE BOOKS IF YOU HAVEN’T!! THEN WATCH
THE MOVIES AND WONDER IN THEIR GREATNESS.
The original book covers.
"The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it."
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