The list went quiet all of a sudden ... what happened?!
Don't know if this would appeal to anyone but I came across a website www.battleorders.co.uk, they supply imitation weapons - some historical, some fantasy, many are copies of items used in films (Gladiator/Blade/Highlander etc). They are the official stockists for replica weapons from the forthcoming Lord of the Rings trilogy. If you ever wanted to get yourself your own version of Sting or Glamdring et al please go have a look! Personally a copy of Gurthang would be very cool, provided I don't get Turin's luck to go along with it!!
Matthew
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Don't know if this would appeal to anyone but I came across a website www.battleorders.co.uk, they supply imitation weapons - some historical, some fantasy, many are copies of items used in films (Gladiator/Blade/Highlander etc). They are the official stockists for replica weapons from the forthcoming Lord of the Rings trilogy. If you ever wanted to get yourself your own version of Sting or Glamdring et al please go have a look! Personally a copy of Gurthang would be very cool,
I wonder if the'll have Arwen's sword? After all she is a mighty
warrior in the movie.
-Ned
-- In mepbmlist@y..., "Matthew Riley" <matthew@m...> wrote:
Hi all
The list went quiet all of a sudden ... what happened?!
Don't know if this would appeal to anyone but I came across a
website www.battleorders.co.uk, they supply imitation weapons - some
historical, some fantasy, many are copies of items used in films
(Gladiator/Blade/Highlander etc). They are the official stockists
for replica weapons from the forthcoming Lord of the Rings trilogy.
If you ever wanted to get yourself your own version of Sting or
Glamdring et al please go have a look! Personally a copy of Gurthang
would be very cool, provided I don't get Turin's luck to go along
with it!!
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Matthew
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Shouldn't Arwen's "sword" be a sewing-needle for making Aragorn's banner with?
Or have I missed something? (Sorry, not followed a great deal of the pre-film
hype beyond the trailers...)
Regards,
Tim.
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:24:51AM -0000, Edward Merrick wrote:
I wonder if the'll have Arwen's sword? After all she is a mighty
warrior in the movie.
However, the film people have taken artistic license in regard to
Arwen.
The movie is going to give her a much more promiment role. She is
going to be made into a female warrior/mage. In the movie she casts
the spell to bring the floods at Rivendell, not Elrond. I think she
even wears Vilya.
Glofindel doesn't find the hobbits before Rivendell, Arwen does.
She also rides to Aragon and brings the banner to him. Word has it
she's all over the movie.
-NM
--- In mepbmlist@y..., Tim Franklin <tim@p...> wrote:
>
> I wonder if the'll have Arwen's sword? After all she is a mighty
> warrior in the movie.
Shouldn't Arwen's "sword" be a sewing-needle for making Aragorn's
banner with?
Or have I missed something? (Sorry, not followed a great deal of
the pre-film
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:24:51AM -0000, Edward Merrick wrote:
hype beyond the trailers...)
However, the film people have taken artistic license in regard to
Arwen.
The movie is going to give her a much more promiment role. She is
going to be made into a female warrior/mage. In the movie she casts
the spell to bring the floods at Rivendell, not Elrond. I think she
even wears Vilya.
Glofindel doesn't find the hobbits before Rivendell, Arwen does.
She also rides to Aragon and brings the banner to him. Word has it
she's all over the movie.
-NM
--- In mepbmlist@y..., Tim Franklin <tim@p...> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:24:51AM -0000, Edward Merrick wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if the'll have Arwen's sword? After all she is a mighty
> > warrior in the movie.
>
> Shouldn't Arwen's "sword" be a sewing-needle for making Aragorn's
banner with?
> Or have I missed something? (Sorry, not followed a great deal of
the pre-film
> hype beyond the trailers...)
>
> Regards,
> Tim.
However, the film people have taken artistic license in regard to
Arwen.
Oh dear. "Artistic license" usually means "strange mangling"...
The movie is going to give her a much more promiment role. She is
going to be made into a female warrior/mage. In the movie she casts
the spell to bring the floods at Rivendell, not Elrond. I think she
even wears Vilya.
That came across to me as being supposed to be fairly heavy wizardry. I
guess they've beefed her Mage rank some
Glofindel doesn't find the hobbits before Rivendell, Arwen does.
Hmm... I remember Bakshi's version had Legolas find the hobbits rather than
Glorfindel, but I suspect that was to get him into the company earlier and
stop people getting confused by one elf appearing briefly and then
disappearing to be replaced by another.
She also rides to Aragon and brings the banner to him. Word has it
she's all over the movie.
I wonder what's behind this? Someone from the PC brigade complaining about
a lack of "strong" female characters? High-ups wanting some angle to get more
female bums on seats at the cinema?
I understand Tom Bombadil has been cut (in common with every non-book
adaptation, as far as I know), and I can sort of see the reason for that (it's
a real aside to the Ring story), but I don't get why Arwen needed re-writing.
Regards,
Tim.
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:45:37PM -0000, Edward Merrick wrote:
Or a desire to show parts of the story that Tolkien only hinted at;
it's hard to have a huge romance where one of the participants is
completely off-screen. But neither of your two ideas is a bad one,
really.
I don't mind the basic idea of Arwen having a larger role (even to the
extent of absorbing some other roles); the quality of execution, of
course, remains to be seen.
Just think of it as the film showing being based more on the _Tale
of Aragorn and Arwen_ than _The Red Book of Westmarch_
Tony Z
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:02:21PM +0000, Tim Franklin wrote:
I wonder what's behind this? Someone from the PC brigade complaining about
a lack of "strong" female characters? High-ups wanting some angle to get more
female bums on seats at the cinema?
--
"The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
His fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air,
And he that stays will die for naught, and home there's no returning."
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.--A.E. Housman
I wonder what's behind this? Someone from the PC brigade complaining about
a lack of "strong" female characters? High-ups wanting some angle to get more
female bums on seats at the cinema?
A strong female character would tend to attract more men, I would think.
-ED \1/
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