Surprised, excited?
"The Lord of the Rings" was released as scheduled.
20 years, when you were with whom you were in the movie theater soul through Middle-earth, like a dream.
Or, 20 years later, you will witness this epic for the first time.
Sir knows that what you need most is this —
Middle-earth Roaming Guide.
Haven't seen the Lord of the Rings novel? Is the trilogy 9 hours too long? Too many backgrounds and allusions to understand?
None of this is a problem.
The following 35 knowledge points will tell you -
Legend, how to descend on earth.
01: "The Book of the Twentieth Century"
20 years ago, "The Lord of the Rings" was released, which was definitely a peak collision.
Books are the originator.
The Lord of the Rings pioneered the originator of modern fantasy literature, known as the "Book of the Twentieth Century", and influenced J. Lee. K. Rowling (Harry Potter), George Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire) and many other Western fantasy writers.
Tolkien spent almost his entire life constructing a grand and complete "Middle-earth world."
It's also a mountain that stands before Hollywood, sleeping for half a century.
Hollywood giants such as Disney and Universal have all walked around and refused to shoot the project.
First, the novel is too classic and too grand to be filmed.
Second, the investment budget is not cheap, and the risk is too high.
Third, director Peter Jackson has never had experience directing blockbusters.
Although Peter was heavily addicted to the Lord of the Rings novels as a teenager, he was only a B-movie director at the time, and his works were basically low-budget horror films and comedies.
One of the bloodiest and most cult films in film history, "Hordes of Corpses PlayIng Across the Line," was written by him.
Such a big investment to him, can it be achieved?
In the end, the project fell to a new line company that also started out as a low-budget horror film.
At that time, the new line decided to gamble a big one.
But the small new line weighed on all its wealth, and initially only gave Peter $130 million, an average budget of only $40 million.
It wasn't until later that the budget was raised to 280 million, but it was still very tight.
(Compared to the cost of a Titanic in the same period of $200 million)
To this end, the creators have laughed and said:
What we're shooting is...
The world's largest produced low-quality film
02: Middle-earth
If you want to clarify the setting of Middle-earth, it may not take a few days or nights.
After all, it is a worldview that people have worked hard to improve all their lives, and they are all-encompassing and meticulous.
Therefore, Sir only introduces some basic settings that you need to know to watch a movie.
Friends who are relatively unfamiliar with "The Lord of the Rings" will probably have a number of them when they enter the theater with these.
The plot of the Lord of the Rings movies is mainly focused on Middle-earth, which is inhabited by many different races.
The main ones are:
genie:
A race of beautiful wisdom, good at creativity, love of poetry and art, with an eternal lifespan.
One of them, the Zinda (Grey Elves), is light.
In one scene, the Sinda prince Legoras stands in the snow.
Everyone else was half buried in the snow.
In this way, the lightness of the Hinda elves is revealed.
dwarf:
Good at forging and mining.
As the name suggests, it is a race shorter than humans.
They have a very sharp nose and have an interesting episode in "The Two Towers".
The queen daughter Io wei brought soup to the dwarf Jimley, but he did not drink it.
Later, when she gave it to Aragon, we learned that it was difficult to swallow at all.
Sigh, Jimley, who has a good sense of smell, has already seen everything.
Hobbit:
Shorter than the dwarf, optimistic and cheerful, with no desire or desire.
Therefore, the resistance to the Rings is relatively stronger.
In order to highlight the figure of the hobbit, this scene is photographed in a special way.
The whole series of films was shot in no less than 6 ways.
Including editing, aliases, misalignment, keying...
Half-orcs and Strong Orcs:
Ugly and weird-looking, it is an evil race that follows the demon king Sauron, and the latter is a combat-enhanced version of the former.
They love the dark.
In Return of the King, Gandalf explains that Mordor's shadow spreads before battle.
Because orcs can't fight in the sun, they need shadows.
In the second half of the film, the shadow of Mordor can be seen in the fallen city in the direction of Minas Tiris.
Humans: Similar to humans in reality, very complex.
Middle-earth time is divided by epochs, and the change of epochs is based on major events that changed the pattern of Middle-earth.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy takes place in the Third Age, the comeback of the Demon King Sauron, and tells the story of the many races that unite to destroy the Rings and fight against Sauron.
03: The Real Lord of the Rings
In order to facilitate the shooting of the Lord of the Rings shots in different scenes, The Lord of the Rings made 40 rings of various sizes.
Remember this stunning shot of the Rings squad after the Rings fell while they were on the snowy mountain?
In order to shoot this shot, the actual body shape of the Lord of the Rings was like this—
04: Elven language
There are a lot of "fairy words" in the "Lord of the Rings" movies.
These elven languages are not made up out of thin air.
It's a language that was actually created by Tolkien.
In order to build a complete Middle-earth world, he not only created the elven language, but also the dwarf language, the dark language, and so on.
The elven language created by Tolkien is also divided into different elven races, with dialects, slang, prosody, etc., which are meticulous.
Moreover, the actors pronounced the elven language in the film, learning the recording of Tolkien reading his own book.
05: Scene from animation
Director Peter Jackson drew inspiration from the 1978 animation when he made some of the shots in the film.
The end result...
You can't say exactly the same, you can only say that they are completely consistent.
06: Tourism New Zealand promotional video
The Lord of the Rings was filmed in Peter Jackson's hometown of New Zealand.
It is said that one of the reasons is to save money. (New Zealand's costs are much lower than Hollywood's))
But at the same time, Peter used the magnificent scenery of his homeland to successfully make the imaginary World of Middle-earth appear before everyone's eyes.
07: Old Hobbiton
After the crew built the hobbit tun where the hobbits lived, they were vacant for a year or two before filming began, and controlled the growth of the grass through the sheep.
For that, it's about making it look like a real country.
The hobbits have lived here for generations, and it should be worn down, not like the new ones.
08: The cry of a strong orc
Remember the earth-shaking and disturbing cries of the mighty orc legions during the Battle of the Sacred Helmet Valley?
It was actually the sound of more than 10,000 cricket spectators calling out.
09: Rattrap shop in Minastiris
To convince the audience that Minas Tiris is a thousand-year-old capital, the crew put enough effort into the details.
Take a slow look at the city's landscape and you'll see vendors selling poultry in cages on the side of the road.
Even, the crew set up a batch of dead rats to open a "rattrap shop".
Because, referring to the European Middle Ages, an ancient city like Minas Tiris will be full of rats.
10: Snow in the Misty Mountains
One of the famous scenes, a blizzard on the Misty Mountains.
It seems to be in the middle of a snowstorm, but it was actually filmed on the sound stage.
To make the snow look as realistic as possible, the crew used a rice-based compound to make things look like snow in the movie.
There are also omissions, such as irritating the actor's skin and eyes.
11: Realistic prototype of the "Battle of the Five Armies"
In order to make the Battle of the Five Armies as real as possible, Peter Jackson went to study history.
A great battle between the dwarves and the elven armies was based on the real battles between the Roman Empire and the Carthaginian armies.
12: Epic battle scenes
In "The Return of the King", the classic scene -
Rohan Knight Charge.
Director Peter Jackson asked the group actors involved in the scene to have read the novel and even memorize the script.
This makes them realize the importance of this moment.
In addition, most of the "male" soldiers in the Knights of Rohan were actually women.
The crew recruited a large number of New Zealand riders, but most of the people who came to the scene were women.
In order to be realistic, the creators put fake beards on the ladies.
Effect, thief shock, thief realistic.
13: A set of data
In order to save cost and time when The Lord of the Rings was filmed, there were usually 5 film crews working at the same time, sometimes as many as 7.
The film has more than 20,000 sets of handmade daily uses; more than 50,000 sets of weapons; and more than 15,000 sets of costumes.
Big scenes are not something that can be filmed casually.
14: Dirty nails
In the first Rivendell conference, where the various races come together, you will find a lot of interesting details differences.
For example, nails.
In the close-up of the Lord of the Rings, Frodo and Boromir's fingernails are dirty.
Hobbit farming, Boromir is a perennial warrior of arduous conquest.
Their dirty nails fit the identity of the character very well.
And look at the nails of the elven lord Elon King, very clean and tidy.
Just a flash of small details, but enough to reflect the creator's efforts in the character.
15: The Rings and the Rings of the Spirits 9v9
Why is the Ring Guard 9.
The only way to fight Sauron is to throw the Ring into the flames of the Doomsday Mountains and destroy it completely.
In the first part, Frodo and the others form a ring expedition in Rivendell, with nine people.
This figure is not a coincidence.
Under the Demon King Sauron, there was also a team of rings responsible for finding the Ring, which happened to be nine people.
A 9v9 of good and evil.
Ring, as Sauron's nine most loyal attendants.
If you look closely, you can see that their mounts are tattooed with the style of "Eye of Sauron".
16: The Real "One-Eyed Warrior"
You should remember the fierceness of the Battle of the Helm Abyss.
In battle, there is a one-eyed Arhat fighting in the legion.
Although it is implied in the film that he lost his eyes in battle, this was not done with special effects. Wayne Philips, who plays a soldier, really only has one eye.
The director found a terrible way to incorporate his unique conditions into the film.
17: The Birth of Gollum
Gollum is a childhood shadow for many people.
But "he" figure, you may not always be able to recognize -
Andy Serkis, Hollywood's "King of Motion Capture" —
Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, King Kong in the 2005 version of King Kong, and Caesar in Rise of the Apes are all his masterpieces.
In 2001, Serkis entered the Lord of the Rings cast as gollum voice actor. Director Peter Jackson discovered his extraordinary talent and decided to let him try out Gollum performances through motion capture technology.
The best motion-capture actor in film history came to life.
At that time, motion capture technology could only simulate the actor's movements, and could not capture expressions.
So in 2001, Gollum's expression was created by an animator based on the facial expressions of Serkis during his performance.
Andy put a lot of effort into performing this CG character well.
In order to present Gollum's state of being eroded by the Lord of the Rings, he drives himself crazy.
In order to reflect the flexible characteristics of Gollum's perennial survival in the wild, he has many difficult actions, such as jumping and crawling, and consumes huge physical strength every day.
Andy's movements are very powerful
It took a lot of energy to make him
So the clothes were also messed up by him
It is because of Andy's efforts that Gollum, the most brilliant motion capture character in film history, was born.
18: Nine dead and one life
Among the actors of "The Lord of the Rings", the biggest price was paid.
It must have been Aragorn's actor Vigo Mortsen.
When filming the scene of Aragon floating on the river, Vigo almost drowned because of the heavy costume.
He recalls how he felt at the time:
There was hardly any air in my lungs
The river is also very cold
In the "Lord of the Rings" crew, Vigo also contributed half of his own front teeth.
A sword hit his front teeth directly
Vigo's front teeth ruptured in response
But he said: It's okay, let's keep shooting.
There is also a scene in "The Two Towers".
Aragon kicked the orc's helmet and screamed in frustration.
This scene, there is no script at all.
Shouting is also genuine.
Because Vigo Mortsen injured his toe while kicking his helmet.
19: The director's family is re-employed
Director Peter Jackson made 3 cameos in The Lord of the Rings.
In each one, there is a "shadow" of his flash.
In the first part, on their way to the Prancing Horse Hotel, Frodo and his party encounter a fat man who eats carrots in the rain.
In the second and third installments, he plays the warriors of the decent and the villains of the Great War, respectively.
What's more interesting is that.
Years later, in The Hobbit: The Smaug Desert, he still nibbles carrots at the door of the Prancing Horse Inn.
The director not only went to war himself, but also took the family to sprinkle sugar.
A pair of sons and daughters appear in all 3 parts.
Because the filming was all done at the same time, it didn't seem to change much.
20: Rivendell & Carlas Galaton
The territory of the elves, Rivendell.
There are both ingenious palace buildings and the beauty of forests and landscapes, and the two coexist harmoniously and complement each other.
The elves are skilled craftsmen and love nature at the same time, and the lord Elon king has human blood and is a half-elf.
Thus Rivendell is popular in Wonderland.
But Carlasgarten, which is also the elven territory, is different from Rivendell.
The ruler of Calasgaraton, Queen Kailantril, was more noble and a more pure-blooded Nodo elf.
Therefore, there is less artificial atmosphere here and it is a natural wonderland that is closer to the original forest.
Every design in "The Lord of the Rings" is not only full of imagination and beautiful, but also has a convincing basis.
21: Frodo's age
Frodo's character, Ilya Wood, has a baby's face.
He was under 20 years old when he starred in The Lord of the Rings.
Coupled with the hobbit's diminutive size, the audience once thought that Frodo was still a child.
In fact, Frodo was 50 years old when he embarked on the adventure.
Hobbits are inherently long-lived, reaching 33 years of age.
Follow the timeline of the story.
When Gandalf returned again to find Frodo escorting the Lord of the Rings, another 17 years had passed.
The director chose the young-looking Wood to play Frodo.
One is to highlight his childlike purity of heart.
Second, during the 17 years that the Lord of the Rings was kept, the Lord of the Rings delayed Frodo's aging, so that by the age of 50, he still looked like a child.
Similarly.
Bilbo has held the Lord of the Rings for 60 years and is still very young when he is in his hundred years.
When he gave up the Ring and handed it over to Frodo, in just a few years, he became a white-haired old decay.
22: Bilbo's birthday, a cake on fire
At the beginning of the first part, Bilbo gave his birthday speech.
There were 111 candles on his cake, but he accidentally lit the polystyrene cake, making half of his face glow.
Because the actor Ian acted so selflessly, the crew desperately continued filming.
23: The Song of Lucien
In the first part, when Frodo and his party are sleeping in the wilderness, the vigil of Aragon sings a song.
Frodo, who was not asleep, heard and asked him who the woman in the song was.
Aragon said it was Lucian, a female elf who fell in love with the human man Belen.
When he sang this song, he was also singing about his love for the elf princess Arwen.
Coincidentally, Aragon and Arwin are also descendants of Lucien and Belém.
There is a long and complex history of change in the meantime.
Related story from Tolkien's other novel based on Middle-earth, The Sprite.
24: Grunting pupils
Gollum's signature elements have 2.
Split personality, and a pair of "watery" big eyes.
The difference between the coward "Gollum" and the dirty ghost "Smegger" is in the eyes.
The pupil of the former is very small, switching to the personality of the latter, and the pupil is instantly dilated.
25: Gandalf's ring
At the end of The Lord of the Rings part III, the observant viewer will discover:
Suddenly, a ruby ring appeared on Gandalf's hand.
This is actually one of the three rings of the elves mentioned in the opening of the first film, the Ring of Fire.
The other two, the Ring of Water were in the hands of Calantrell and the Ring of Qi was in the hands of King Elon.
Gandalf's possession of the ring was confidential.
So he had never worn the ring before defeating Sauron.
At the end, it is also revealed for the first time in the film that Gandalf possesses the Ring of Fire.
26: Gandalf's Pipe & Sword
Gandalf often carried a slender pipe.
When he didn't use it, the pipe was hidden in his cane.
Once you find out, you can feel the clever design of the Lord of the Rings props.
His sword, Glamdring, is more elaborate and is made by a collection of 11 crafts.
No wonder Gandalf loved to fight with people with his sword and cane.
The title of "Melee Mage" is well deserved.
27: Two endings, highlighting the contrast
Essignor was killed by an arrow like Boromir.
However, the way they were killed reflected the differences in their personalities.
Essidor was blinded by the power of the Ring, and an arrow was shot in his back, symbolizing his blindness to the corruption that the Ring had brought.
Boromir, on the other hand, dies in the face of an arrow, reflecting his understanding of the power of the ring and choosing to face it.
28: Broken Gondor horn
In the third book, Return of the King, Deniser holds Borromir's Broken Horn.
It was in response to the death of Riboromir in the first part that the Gondor horn was destroyed by an arrow.
29: The Song of the Elven Language
In the scene of Boromir's death, you can hear the choir in the soundtrack.
It's actually singing in elven language.
The lyrics are derived from a famous sentence in the book:
I don't like the sharpness of a bright sword
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness
I also don't like the swiftness of arrows
nor the arrow for its swiftness
I also don't like the glory of the warriors
nor the warrior for his glory
I just like what they defend
I love only that which they defend
30: The Wrist Guard of Inheritance
After Boromir's death, his wristband was worn by Aragon.
In honor of this friend.
This is not in the original work, it is the actor Vigo Mortsen who improvised on the spot and achieved a wonderful pen.
31: Mirror echo
At the end of The Return of the King, Sam grabs Frodo and saves him from falling into a volcano.
The scene resembles the scene in "The Lord of the Rings Returns" in which Frodo catches Sam in the lake and saves him from drowning.
32: One more eagle
At the end of The Return of the King.
Gandalf brought the three eagles to the erupting Doomsday Volcano.
In order to rescue Frodo and Sam, obviously two are enough, and the extra one is ——
Presumably to save the surviving Smegger.
33：I am no man！
In the final Holy War of the Rings, the Ring Angmar Witch King said to Irving, who was attacking him:
“No man can kill me！”
At the moment of the first shot, Merry suddenly sneaked up on his leg in the back.
Then, Iovine took off his helmet:
“I am no man！” A sword ended him.
There's also a story that the movie didn't make.
"No man can kill him" was once a prophecy of the elf Gryffindale to the Witch King.
The Witch King was therefore not afraid, believing that no one could kill him.
Behold.
"Man" in English pun, let him step on the pit.
It is true that the Witch King did not die at the hands of "man".
It was a woman, and a hobbit, who married him.
“I am no man！” , and one of the most classic and feminine lines in The Lord of the Rings.
34: Bilbo's compassion
In the first part, the Ring Guards are on their way, and Frodo finds Gollum following them.
Frodo sighed, "It's a pity that Bilbo didn't kill him that year." ”
But Gandalf said:
Don't judge the life and death of others so easily
Even the wisest cannot see through destiny
My gut tells me
Before all this is over, Gollum's play is not finished
Whether the character is good or evil
Bilbo's compassion may have affected the fate of many people
At the end of the destruction of the Rings, Frodo was unable to resist the temptation to take it for himself.
If it weren't for Gollum's frantic desire to get the ring back, The fate of Middle-earth would have been rewritten.
The Lord of the Rings, ultimately destroyed at gollum's hands.
Looking back at Gandalf's words, you will find that the foreshadowing of the ending was buried long ago.
35: Reciprocating map
The last one, left to the end.
Take a closer look at the map of Return of the King.
You will find that this is a review of the protagonist's entire adventure.
Go north along the White Mountains, to Lohan, through the Misty Mountains, to Rivendell, and back to tossing and turning.
From the Battle of the Helmet Valley, the sacrifice of Gandalf in the Dungeon of Moria, to the formation of the Ring Expedition in Rivendell, and back to the Shire.
A map is the best reward for fans with care.
It's also the best tribute to an epic.
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