Cool LOTR Trivia Fact #1:
The Ringwraith's "scream" is actually a crew-woman's scream put into sound effects.
Cool LOTR Trivia Fact #2:
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), in the scene in The Two Towers when he kicks the helmet across the plain, broke two of his toes, and the scream on screen is Viggo venting the pain of his foot into his performance. AWESOME actor.
Cool LOTR Trivia Fact #3:
In The Return of the King, Elijah Wood (Frodo) was so exhausted and wiped from the Mount Doom scene that at the end when the actors would stand and give thank you/goodbye speeches, he wasn't able to.
Whetted yet? Ha ha I hope so! Cause there's more where that came from. Now, let's do some awesome trivia questions this time, and we'll see if you can get them right.
Trivia Question #1:
Which actor didn't arrive on set until the day filming started?
Trivia Question #2:
Who was the first actor to get injured on the set?
Trivia Question #3:
Who was the youngest cast member on the project?
Trivia Question #4:
What did the nine cast members do all together at the end of filming?
Alright, before we get to the answers to the above questions (no Google searches!!!), let's have some more fun with LOTR, this time with some pictures. These are some of my favorite (and I think pretty rare, unless you know where to find them) pictures from the films, and I think you'll enjoy them just as much as I do. =)
The pic above was taken after Elijah fell into the swamp pool in the Dead Marshes in The Two Towers movie. I love how Andy is helping put the foil blanket on Elijah to help him warm up.
I don't think this picture needs much more than this: Wow. Just...wow.
The picture above was taken during the filming of the Gray Havens scene. Just stunning, to see them so into the emotion, and making it so real. These guys have such AMAZING talent. They all do.
And now, just because I love humor, here's this HILARIOUS spoof LOTR pic, taken from The Fellowship of the Ring movie.
(These pics can be found on frodoforever.com, arwen-undomiel.com, and always.ejwsites.net, not necessarily in that order.)
Okay, now back to the trivia questions! You didn't cheat did you? *teacher's glare* I would hope not, young grasshoppers lol.
Trivia Question #1:
Which actor didn't arrive on set until the day filming started?
--Viggo Mortensen, who was cast VERY late as Aragorn (due to a change in casting by Peter Jackson and the production crew), didn't arrive on set until the day filming started for his character (which, if I remember correctly, was The Prancing Pony, Bree scene in The Fellowship of the Ring).
Trivia Question #2:
Who was the first actor to get injured on the set?
--Orlando Bloom (Legolas), who fell off of his horse, (followed immediately by Gimli's stunt-double, landing right on top of Orlando) cracked a rib.
Trivia Question #3:
Who was the youngest cast member on the project?
--Elijah Wood, who was 18 when he flew to New Zealand in 1999, was the youngest cast member on project.
Trivia Question #4:
What did the nine cast members do all together at the end of filming?
--After the films, each of the nine members of the Fellowship [Viggo Mortensen, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin (Sam), Billy Boyd (Pippin), Dominic Monaghan (Merry), Sean Bean (Boromir), Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Orlando Bloom], except for John Rhys-Davies (who sent his stunt double in his place), each got a tattoo of the Elvish letters for "nine", representing their brotherhood and friendship after working with each other for so long on the set (16 months for the principal filming, not to mention three consecutive years of returning to New Zealand for extra scenes).
There you are, my friends! Much more to come later. God bless you and yours, always and forever! =) Adios!!
And the random word is: Marble. He he =)
Bye bye!
Jenn
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