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Old 09-17-2002, 01:30 PM   #1
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I never truly realized the utter desolation of Mount Doom until I reached that part in the BBC's radio version of The Return of the King...

I just wonder what this part will be like watching it on the big screen next year...
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Old 09-17-2002, 02:20 PM   #2
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I know - Boromir gave me a pretty good picture with his movie line about "riddled with fire and ash and dust" but I don't think you can ever truly picture something like that until you've seen it.

I have complete confidence that PJ will depict it accurately, though.
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Old 09-18-2002, 12:15 AM   #3
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Accurate, huh? Seems to me that "accurate", like so many other terms out there (truth, beauty, good, bad. there are many) is subjective, a matter of interpretation. What's accurate for one person may be totally innacurate for another. Your image of Mordor is probably very different from mine and everyone else's, but that's what makes literature so much fun: discussing the differences with other interested people. That's basically what these movies are, PJ's "discussion" of the movie with us, the viewers. The only difference between his "discussion" and that of, say, someone on the Downs, is that he has the resources to "discuss" it with us in a particularly compelling manner, but it all amounts to the same thing. The Mordor in the movie will be PJ's version of Mordor, and whether it matches anyone else's is yet to be seen.
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Old 09-18-2002, 12:22 AM   #4
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(OK, I guess visual images of the film should be in the "Movie" section, but I'll post anyway.)

It would be very interesting to know where P.J. filmed his "version" of Mordor.

I know I was startled when I first saw pictures of the Dead Marshes. In my mind I had always seen it a more "forest-y", with visions of tall cypress-like trees and such.

But of course, a typical English "fen" would look exactly as P.J. pictured it. Though I also saw the Marshes with a black, night sky, and I noticed in the pictures it was filmed as a "day" scene.

Eh, it's all good. Can't wait to see it.
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Old 09-18-2002, 12:32 AM   #5
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Eh, it's all good. Can't wait to see it.
Of course! The desire to know how others feel about LotR is one of the things that keep me coming back here every day, and it's why I enjoy the movie so much. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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