News from the set [2]

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Leaked pic of a bit of the Laketown set.

Spoiler:

Bakshi predicted some Men would be like vikings - like Boromir for instance.

Amarië wrote:You mean this one?
"Harald Hårfagre", still under construction.


35 meters long, 8 m wide. Hopefully a nice American will come along and translate the measurements into football fields, tennis courts or bottles of coca cola.

YES!! that one!! I've met the guy (or one of them) who built it! I'm like sort of almost in the comunity

and the "head" is still i secret

Bakshi predicted some Men would be like vikings - like Boromir for instance. - Orwell

I like what you've done there!


Love those little boats Norc- we had something very similar here too (probably share a design ancestry I would imagine) and yes they would be perfect for Laketown I think.

well the Vikings have spoken and a maybe/sort of for the design from Norc is good enough for me.

I stiill say the tall narrow nature of the buildings is very Venetian.

they may be tall and narrow like in Venice but Venetian houses are not made from wood nor are they shaped like the set pictures they are square and cube like and made from stone, they also dont have the dragonish water spout thingies on the ends of the rooves.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:I stiill say the tall narrow nature of the buildings is very Venetian.

yeah, but the are in woods
the boats in the pictures are built the same way as vikingboats, though with no dragon heads and shields as they are for fishing, not fighting

and SCORE! Petty agrees with me

Amarië wrote:
35 meters long, 8 m wide. Hopefully a nice American will come along and translate the measurements into football fields, tennis courts or bottles of coca cola.

Very impressive! That's 140 bottles of Mexican Coca Cola, or 2 full rolls of toilet paper if you prefer.

A Viking theme? Could work, as long as we don't see any Viking hats!

New trailer coming out soon. 2.24mins long.

Norc wrote:

Amarië wrote:You mean this one?
"Harald Hårfagre", still under construction.


35 meters long, 8 m wide. Hopefully a nice American will come along and translate the measurements into football fields, tennis courts or bottles of coca cola.

YES!! that one!! I've met the guy (or one of them) who built it! I'm like sort of almost in the comunity

and the "head" is still i secret

This was so cool I had to google it. It was launched last week.


Beautiful! It makes me want to get 99 friends and go rowing!

chris63 wrote:New trailer coming out soon. 2.24mins long.

I'm excited to see it, though with a growing sense of dread. I keep telling myself it can't be as bad as the rumors.

The boat is launched, yet not officially because the head is still missing and they have that.. erm..sail left.

Do we have a rough idea even of when the new trailer is out?

july probably, in summer.

no its probably in a weeks time I think.

late june or right in the beginning of july

Norc wrote:
and the "head" is still i secret

So when do you think we'll get to see it, and will it look like Smaug? (Everybody's so $#@$ secretive about their dragons! )

tihi, dunno, hope so

Not sure if this was posted yet (I haven't been reading everything while I've been out of town), but the TORn apologists are hard at work trying to spin everything that Billy Connolly has been saying about Dain into the most positive possible light.

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/06/18/57504-analysing-billy-connollys-dain-ironfoot/

My favorite part(s) is how they speculate that Dain might be a berserker (with absolutely no evidence other than that he had a reputation for strength and skill on a battlefield) but conclude by saying that he was a wise leader and his wisdom should be reflected in the film. Also, apparently some people took my half-joking question about pigs in Scandinavian mythology seriously, because they're trotting out the old "if Tolkien was inspired by this mythology, then including anything from it is fair game" argument again. Anything to make PJ look better.

TORn, you are adorable. Don't ever change.

NB I notice that they also remember Leroy, the pig with massive balls, so at least I'm not alone in that.

Hmm, and to add to that, I'll note that my conversation with Darkstone included...

[incidentally I didn't answer the following question 'why not?' specifically, as instructed by Sharrasi]

Elthir wrote: Take your example of someone riding a rabbit for instance -- Jackson could have Bilbo escape some situation by jumping on an unusually large rabbit and riding it to safety. That's generally an unnatural animal activity too. Would you be happy with such an injection (even if it could be shown that Tolkien was familiar with this)?

Darkstone responded: Any objection would be based on "Hey, it didn't happen in the book!" Then again, if the situation was non-book like, say, Bilbo escaping from Dol Guldur, then why not?


Elthir wrote: Or what about Radagast himself riding a large hare instead of a sledge pulled by hares?

Darkstone responded: Personally I'd say six of one, half a dozen of the other. I note another fanciful possibility is "master of shapes" Radagast himself turning into a giant hare! (And rescuing Bilbo from Dol Guldur by carrying him away on his back!)

you know what, I am very tempted to go to TORN and just talk bullshit and plant scary thoughts in their heads. Manipulate. cause they are so adorable xD

I think it's rather endearing. They can't see the writing on the wall, so they do their very best to rationalize it. Makes sense. I don't agree with their reasoning much at all, but there it is.
I wonder if they're near the bottom of the barrel of excuses; if they're making reference to obscure Norse mythology as justification, they have to be close.

nothing about norse mthology is obscure.