Lord of the Rings Movies

The GPS references and local directions, helped make the first edition such a success. New Edition contains images and details of the first two movies, the third and final movie. The New Edition also contains an extra 32 pages and in addition to the new locations there are features written by Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, Alan Lee and Barrie Osborne.   

Like many other films, I saw it between bouts of festive excess and hoped for nothing from it except what you could reasonably ask of a three-hour fantasy epic. I was absolutely  happy to overlook the absence of plausible characters and the sublimation of motivation to a lot of mythic “forces”, as long as the movie succeeded in one most important respect: it had to deliver enchantment.

And there’s another relatively surprising goof from one of our favorite stars from the movie. Orlando Bloom, also known as Legolas Greenleaf in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, well… made everyone burst into chuckles. If you’re tempted to sink in to his disarming looks and personality, let me tell you something that you should know. Our dashing dreamboat actually did something to boats in the movie. During the scenes where the fellowship [the nine members, that is] were in boats, Orlando Bloom sunk his boat two times by mistake, once with John Rhys-Davies and once with his size double.

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The cast of the movie are perfectly normal, although they all look really perfect all throughout the movie [come on, let's just admit it]. There are a lot of unknown quirks brought about by several cast members. Look who had his own style of flying back and fro to the set. Because of fear, for the scenes that were shot in the misty mountains, the cast had to be flown to some sites, Sean Bean is afraid of flying and so walked for two hours to get to the top of the mountain for shooting. Whew, now that’s way tiring.

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As previously noted, the Lord of the Rings trilogy was only a sequel to Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”. As with other highly successful movies like X-Men, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Superman, one can assume that the producers of the trilogy would like to extend their earnings by making sequels or prequels. Unfortunately, no other film was made with regard to the LotR trilogy under the production company New Line Cinema as of the moment. Maybe after a few years, they might produce these prequels but the nect problem would be that the LotR hype would have died down by then.

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Since the Book can contain a much larger time frame than a film, certain parts of the book were changed in order to fit it all in the three films.

Some changes were made to the characters of Aragorn and Frodo. Changes were also made to certain events like the participation of elves in the Battle. There were also some parts of the Book that were deleted like the chapter of the Scouring of the Shire and some were added.

The film only followed the basic plot of the book while diverging from the characterization of the main characters.

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The film was distributed by New Line Cinema with an overall budget of $280 million and is considered one of the biggest movie projects made. The project spanned eight years in production in New Zealand due to its large demand in props, design and actors.

This undertaking gained such good reviews and good returns at the box office. The LotR trilogy earned a whopping $2.92 billion in movie sales. It also earned a number of Academy Award citations with a total of 30 nominations wherein 17 were won including Best Direction and Best Picture for the Return of the King.

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This is the style that was adopted by the film’s financial backers that had one movie being made with some of the cast and crew shooting scenes for the other two installments. The rest of the time was spent doing all the digital enhancements that made the film possible as well as gave ample time to get shots reviewed and re-shot if necessary. Tolkien’s version in the novel was as much as possible followed with some additions to make the scenes better with his blessing of course. He was taken as a consultant throughout the filming of the whole series so as to maintain the faithfulness of the film to the author’s vision which to his delight was adhered to.
From the elaborate sets to the still existing Hobbit Village in New Zealand, the utter natural beauty and diversity of the land gave background to one memorable film series indeed. Though many have been put off by the fact that the three part will remain a three part film, many were wowed by the mastery of the producers and other staff to deliver a seemingly impossible realm, the realm of magic and fantasy as it was competing for the same market as the Harry potter series for the same audience body.

One of the most elaborate and computer generated films of recent history, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy has become a legend due to elaborate sets and seemingly impossible scenery. Almost entirely shot in New Zealand (where the original sets still remain and can be viewed on tours). The three films were all filmed simultaneously allowing less time ans effort from the production crew and the actors, some of whom had to live in the country till filming ended. The huge number of special effects required so massive an amount of equipment that a whole building had to be constructed to house them all (including the artists of course).
Many of the epic battle scenes had extras from all over New Zealand and its army which gladly lent a couple of their reserve fighting men. The military guys were too engrossed with the film that they destroyed some of their wooden swords and spears forgetting it was only a shoot. The scenes being shot simultaneously, one crew can be shooting a scene for the last installment and the one next door on the first and so on. Most of the actors who handled ‘the Ring’ thought they had the one and only ring on set. All these wrapped into one of the mos successful films of all time ranking second on the charts to top $100,000,000 in revenues losing by a fraction from Titanic

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Legolas is an elf from the Woodland Realm, a character in the successful Tolkien’s, Lord of the Rings. He is one of the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring, which was created to conquer the One Ring. Legolas is the son of the king of Woodland Realm of Northern Mirkwood, Thranduil. Thranduil is the ‘Elvenking’ in The Hobbit. While Thandruil ruled the Silvan Elves, lived amongst them and inculcated their customs, Legolas was not one of the Wood elves. Father and son really are Sindar or Grey Elves. Their language was Sindarin. First introduced in the Lord of the Rings at the Council of Rivendell as the messenger for his father regarding Gollum’s escape from their guard. Legolas is the unstoppable fighter with various stunt performances while engaged in battle.