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Shadowfax is IN
Saw an interview wih Ian McKellan [gee, did I spell it right?] on E! Entertainment [no, my girlfriend had it on.....lol] last night. He stated that in TT that Gandalf the White, with a younger look and shorter white beard, is like a "samurai, more of a commander, riding about on his magical horse Shadowfax...."
Okay, okay, okay! Shadowfax ain't magical, but he's bloody well in the films! So, the pics of the white horse at Helms Deep is not of the Arwen-bearing Asfaloth [breathes a sigh of relief] but of the Gandalf-bearing Shadowfax. BTW, Sir Ian stated his website has had over 8.5 million hits in February. It was really neat to see his reaction....
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Its never been no mystery that shadowfax would or would not be in the movie, if you read his E-post archives, Ian Mc Kellan mentions Shadowfax a few times. In mind of that, Asfaloth may still be a possiblity.
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03-05-2002, 04:21 PM | #3 |
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well, arwen is shown in pictures with the same dark rock background on a white horse..
gotta have hope though.. maybe someone accidentally sat on an edit scene button and deleted the arwen thing.. hmm i was on a website earlier this month.. whos morwen? she/he seems to turn up in TTT.
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ooh! ooh! i know this one! *pulls out a copy of The Silmarillion, flips thru* ok, according to the genealogies on page 381 of my copy of the Silmarillion, Morwen is Morwen Eledhwen, daughter of Baragund, wife of Hurin, and mother of Turin Turambar and Nienor Niniel. I can't tell you anything about where she might be in TT cuz i haven't read that one in 2 years (shame on me!)
another useless bit of trivia: Morwen is the name of the (sensible) witch in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede, who has 9 cats, none of whom are black (Morwen has the cats, not Patricia C. Wrede)
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don't think that's the correct Morwen, Tinuviel.
But who the heck is Morwen gonna be? Don't tell me there will be a little "storytelling" flashback to Turin Turambar.....if that were done, I bet even jerseydevil would call Peter Jackson cool....
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Morwen could be Morwen of Lossarnach, mother of Theoden.
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03-06-2002, 10:08 PM | #7 |
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According to rumor, Morwen will be a refugee woman from Rohan (added character) who Arwen helps somehow in the course of the movie.
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no, i am 100% sure that morwen doesn't appear in TTT or in RotK
but at least there is a morwen int he books somewhere! i don't like it when movies make up characters just so they can move the plot around. it seems to easy. it makes it too unrealistic. so good, morwen does exist, just not in LotR. i haven't read the sil yet, so im sorry for my ig-nor-ance oh dern, guess that just means i'll have to pick up a copy somewhere!
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i actually only just got to the silmaril part of the silmarillion (chapter 7) and i only know about morwen cuz i was studying the genealogies in the back (don't ask why, i'm weird that way. sometimes i think i'm half hobbit cuz i'm short and i love genealogies...but my ears are pointed like an elf's and my face is kinda elvish). the silmarillion is SO COOL!!!!
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03-07-2002, 01:34 AM | #11 |
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OOH...yay!! Shadowfax is in! But the whole Morwen thing...hmm...she's not in the index of LOTR at all, so I'm assuming that she's not going to be in. Unless of course, as an added char. Which would really be bad, as I don't WANT to have Turin's mother as a Rhoanian refugee.
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I think it's pretty set that Morwen is in the film, as she is listed as part of the cast. However, who the heck knows what the deal is with this character. Arwen helping Rohanian refugees......GD it, Peter, what the heck is so wrong about the ORIGINAL story? Sheesh, bro, I can live with Arwen Warrior Princess, but hey, forming new characters wholecloth and skipping the scouring of the shire are absolutely rotten. I still can't wait for the next two films, but knowing that the scouring ain't there is a real let-down for me.
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i still can't get over the fact that the scouring isn't there!!!
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"Morwen" adds a human dimention ot Rohan's woes
nitpickers note-Morwen is presumably Sindarin, and therefore a very un-Rohirric name.
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when you make a movie from a book, you can't possibly include every single little aspect of it and especially not with LotR
and due to that, I forgive the ommision of the scouring although I was reading that part today (thus completing my third trip through the books) and I think that PJ could do an awesome job with it especially at the gate at the gate over the Brandywine when Pippin, Mery, and Sam approach the shiriffs with the sword out and Frodo just kind of sit there I had a perfect scene in my head and all too camera above and two from Frodo's left and on from his right come around and stand a few feet from the gate while drawing their swords but that's just my little overactive imagination talking I think the addition of Morwen could be a good thing after all, it gives Arwen something to other than hijacking the entire story I read somewhere that Morwen adds ahuman element to everything that is happening in Rohan so I'm all for it
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My friends and I are still in disbelief about the leaving out of the scouring of the Shire.
I'm glad Shadowfax is in. I never seriously thought they'd leave him out. But I never even considered that they'd leave out the return to the Shire.
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Sorry Bropous - it'll be a cold day in hell before I think Jackson is cool and even colder for me to believe he did any justice to the books. Bringing in characters from the Silmarillion would just be stupid for him to do anyway.
The adding of a new female character is no different than him adding Lurtz. Did anyone hear of him in the books??? Concerning the scouring - I'm personally glad it's out. Jackson would have just made it into a slash and hack scene with orcs and burning and pillaging. Look at what was shown in the Mirror - maybe it was just what might happen if Frodo fails - but I also think that is what the Scouriing would have been if Jackson had filmed it.
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for some reason (presumably my excessive Angband-playing), i always think of Lurtz as being named Azog, King of the Uruk-Hai.
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And Shadowfax is a BEAUTY!A VERY tall and PROUD horse with a creamy mane and tail that flow behing him in the breeze like a banner. And he's PURE white. No grey on him AT ALL. BEAUTIFUL horse and he's just so perfect for the part. BEAUTIFUL. And when the sun shines on his mane it turns GOLD I swear I WOULD LOVE riding on that animal. BEAUTIFUL.
Question: Why do we call Lurtz Lurtz? I mean he really doesn't HAVE a name that I heard in the movie. And what does that long line of letters on Bros sig mean?I've always wondered since I saw it. Sam
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They named him Lurtz - even though it's never mentioned in the movie that I remember either - for marketing purposes. You need some name on the action figure. Since the orcs were just cronies - Lurtz was the "captain".
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