| From Drimeth - Viggo Mortensen broke a tooth while filming a battle scene for the movie. Poor Viggo!:( From Toni-oni-oni - An addition to the above fact. not only did he break a tooth but he asked if they could superglue it back in fo he would be able to carry on filming. Dedicated actor. But what we've never found out is if they did superglue it! lol From Casey - Its a Tolkien fact really, he used to write stories for his friends when he was younger. lotrl's this may be a sign. Dominic Monoghan flew a plane for an hour on his way to one of the sets. Billy Boyd's stunt person was a girl from Tailand. She was called Fon (okay we know it's probably not spelt that way but we've written it how to pronouce it. If anyone can give us the correct spelling that would be great!) From Michelle - Viggo got so into his character that director Peter Jackson once addressed him as Aragorn for over half an hour, and Viggo didn't even realise it. From Michelle - Sean Bean (Boromir) starred in a UK TV series as a soldier during the Napoleonic wars with the name of Richard Sharpe. He subsequently appeared in a series of commercials where he would allude to his earlier role, saying things like, "Sharpe idea". In this movie he continues the joke: after touching the Sword of Elendil he says, "Still Sharpe." From Michelle - Boromir's father, Denethor, is played by John Noble. In Lothlorien Boromir says, "My father is a noble man." From Unknown - Orlando is very accident prone. He's broken a finger, toe, arm, both legs, a rib and a wrist. He's fractued his skull 3 times and he was nearly paralzyed after falling 3 stories onto an eavestrough. Ouch! While shooting the scene in The Two Towers where Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli find the burning pile of Uruk Hai left by Eomer and his riders, what Peter Jackson thought was a wonderful peice of acting from Viggo as he kicked the helmet was actually Viggo's reaction to breaking his toe on it. Again we say Ouch! Andy Serkis who is the voice for Gollum also did the voices for The Black Riders. When Gandalf and Bilbo first meet it was filmed in two seperate locations. On the Hobbiton set and in a studio with a replica front of Bag End. The part where Gandalf is fighting Saruman (FOTR) and Saruman spin Gandalf around, that was actually Ian McKellen (no not a stunt guy). The Hobbits encounter with the Black Rider (while running for Buckleberry Ferry) was shot on Peter Jackson's birthday. Producer and Co Writer, Fran Walsh did the scream for the Ringwraiths. Viggo's first scene was the Weathertop fight scene. Christopher Lee got his hand caught in a hotel door while filming and damagaed it quite badly. So if you look during the scenes where the orcs are in Orthanc ("What does the eye command...etc" and also when he is utop Orthanc with Gandalf you'll notice that he has to hide his hand. 31/2 hours after receiveing Peter Jackson's package and letter to ask if Alan Lee would join the LOTR project, he phoned and said yes. The package had a copy of Peter's films Heavenly Creatures and Forgotten Silver and Allan watched them both straight away! Tolkien died before finishing The Silmarillion, so his son Christopher Tolkien had to make the finishing touches. Weta Workshops were the biggest orderers of rubber foam latex in the world. Elijah Wood once stepped on a peice of glass while filming and his feet were so cold (the big feet didn't really help keep their real feet warm) that he didn't know until the end of the day! |
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