Went to Sugi’s house yesterday for a LoTR marathon, which we sadly did not quite get to complete.
Her set is a cool Extended Edition boxset that comes in a wooden case. And being EE it has (apart from extra scenes) what it calls “Appendices”, which are basically extra things like behind-the-scenes interviews, mini-documentaries and things like that. I borrowed all 6 (each DVD comes with two of them) of these discs from her and watched a bit of the first one yesterday.
Part of the Hobbiton set.
The Appendices have cool stuff like pre-viz animatics and galleries of storyboards and stuff. Of the bits I watched last night there was even some footage of Alan Lee/John Howe sketching concepts for Hobbiton on location.
Alan Lee (at least I think it is) sketching.
Some of the designs – like costume designs or concept art – I’ve seen before in The Art of… books. I’ve read The Art of FoTR and TTT but have yet to find RoTK at any library. Our school library only has FoTR, and I’ve found a couple of copies of TTT at Queenstown library, but searching the NLB’s database I can’t find much.
Says Sugi:
krysjez: Legolas is gay!
Marshy and me: WTH? We thought you fangirled him!
krysjez: *shrug*
krysjez also dislikes Legolas’ lines, apparently, because they sound silly or something. But I love them, probably because I adore archaic English lol.
But I like archaic English! (sort of.) Can you imagine their lines sounding like they were taken straight out of a badfic? I know, my brain just splinched too. And I do fangirl* him.
Also copied from Sugi is a favorite-scenes thing. No <!–more–> because I’m lazy. But I don’t think it’s going to be very long because I haven’t really watched them that many times. I think 3 times for the first two and one-and-a-half (didn’t get to complete yesterday) for the last.
FoTR:
- Gandalf rides to Isengard.
- Gwaihir rescuing Gandalf scene.
- Rivendell panorama(s). It’s so pretty and the thought that half of them are matte paintings/minis makes me feel utterly inadequate.
- Merry and Pippin throw rocks at the water at the gates of Moria.
- Dwarrowdelf hall intro.
- “We cannot escape”.
- Entering Lothlorien, from the running thing onwards to pans of Caras Galadhon.
- Legolas thinks of Galadriel’s gift. (insert fangirl*)
- Boromir dies ):
TTT:
- “Riders of Rohan! What news of the Mark?”
- Orc pile (after the attack by the Riders of Rohan) and discovery of Hobbit tracks.
- Treebeard’s introduction – the blink.
- “Little orcs!”
- “Your words are poison.” (she should totally have slapped Grima D: )
- “I don’t usually hold to foreign food, but this elvish stuff, it’s not bad.”
- Gollum and Sam arguing about the rabbits.
- Legolas argues with Aragorn.
- Archery!
- Shieldboarding! (well, not really.)
- Aragorn and Gimli leap onto the causeway.
- 270-degree-horseflip! (I can’t remember which one it was from, actually.)
- Samwise the Brave.
RotK:
- “Welcome, my Lords… to Isengard!”
- Drinking game
- “Game over.” ♥
- From the ashes a fire shall be woken/ a light from the shadows shall spring/ renewed shall be Blade that was broken/ The crownless again shall be King.
- Gandalf and Pip riding through Minas Tirith.
- “In fact, it’s better if you don’t speak at all, Peregrin Took.”
- “All shall fade…”
- The lighting of the beacons. It was like the Great Wall or something, only infinitely cooler. Music was awesome too.
- Rohirrim arrival and charge.
- “By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand and fight, Men of the West!”
- Peter Jackson the pirate.
- “What about side by side with a friend?” – it’s a bit lame, but kinda cute.
- Frodo reunites with the rest of the Fellowship.
- I didn’t like anything after that except Bilbo asking after his old ring, because it was like 30 minutes of tearful goodbyes. I know, I’m totally insensitive :V
*Can I graduate from fangirl now? I want to be a fan.
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