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Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer - The scenes with the shadow rolling back across the land and the map of Peasantry suggest the Lord of the Rings trailers. strongbad email.exe Disc Two - The disk in the floppy disk container reads "WOTR level 2", referring to The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring. Thy Dungeonman II - The message for killing a Longrel says that "thou smotes its ruin", which may be a reference to Gandalf, who describes his defeat of the Balrog as "I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place, and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.". Peasant's Quest - Giving something to Jhonka results in him replying with, "Don't need nothing from no filthy peasantses!!", which is a reference to Gollum. Mike also references Gollum, who was portrayed with computer animation overlaid on actor Andy Serkis' performance, and was considered a groundbreaking special effect. Taylor spoke in the commentaries for the DVD releases of the movies. Email stunt double (DVD commentary) - Mike Chapman imitates Richard Taylor, founder of Weta Workshop, the company which handled all of the props and costumes for the movie adapations. It has been referenced in the Homestar Runner body of work. #Lord of rings wiki series#
Tolkien and adapted into a film series by Peter Jackson.
The Lord of the Rings is a popular series of epic fantasy novels originally written by J.
Highlights of the Movie Trilogy : 5.1 MB Medium, and 62."Don't need nothing from no filthy peasantses!!". Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Lord of the Rings movie series. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Lord of the Rings movie series The movies made nearly 3 billion dollars. Each movie was released a few weeks before Christmas in 2001, 2002, and 2003. All together the movies have more than 3,500 special effects. Together the movies are longer than 11 hours. Each movie has a Special Extended Edition DVD which has a longer version of the movie. Much of the filming was done in New Zealand, but some areas were made using computers. The 3 movies cost 281 million dollars to make. They won 17 Oscars, 11 of which were for Return of the King. Together the three movies were nominated for 30 Oscars at the Academy Awards. The scripts are not exactly true to the story in the volumes of the book, yet have most of its most important elements. These were left out, and other passages changed, because of dramatic flow and practical limits on what could be presented in three movies. A few changes that many consider major include: "The Old Forest", "In the House of Tom Bombadil", and "Fog on the Barrow-Downs", from The Fellowship of the Ring "Many Partings", "Homeward Bound", & "The Scouring of the Shire" from The Return of the King. The plot and motivation of the characters changed, and parts of the story were cut. Lawrence Makoare as Lurtz/Gothmog/The Witch-king of Angmar/StuntsĬhanges from the book Ĭompared to the book, the Lord of the Rings movies differed in many ways. Sala Baker as Sauron/"Maggoty-Bread" Uruk/Stunts. Andy Serkis as Sméagol/Voice and motion-capture of Gollum/Voice of Witch-king of Angmar. John Rhys-Davies as Gimli and the voice of Treebeard. Dominic Monaghan as Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck. The remains of Bag End on the Hobbiton set near Matamata, New Zealand