Shining Silhouette

I finished the (extended) Lord of the Rings Trilogy! It's truly a masterful sequence of films! Music, set design, choreography, acting, costumes, cinematography.... It's all *chefs kiss* Magnifico!

Anyway, my sister and I were interested in the making of the movie and we found a couple fun facts!

• Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) did not have a stunt double and used a real steel sword while filming
• Christopher Lee had read the LotR books every year for over 40 years before getting the role of Saruman.
• Nazgul screeches were made by scraping plastic cups cups together
• Viggo Mortensen formed such a strong bond with the horse he rode on set that he purchased him (and another horse to give him a friend) from the owners after filming.
• Apparently Tolkien wasn't allowed to publish the trilogy until it was typewritten, but he didn't have any experience, so he typed all 1,200 pages of The Lord of the Rings with the two fingers technique!
• Several of the Riders of Rohan were portrayed by women wearing fake beards
• Sean Bean (Boromir) refused to fly to set in a helicopter so each day he hiked in his heavy armor up the mountain to film.
• Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood never actually acted alongside each other because of their immense height difference and so their scenes were spliced together post-production

Kinda crazy, right!

In other news, this next week, I'm going to be very busy, so I don't think I'll be able to be on the Shard much (if at all) until later in the week. Everything's already starting to pick up- school is stressful, y'all!