The fact that not only do they still see each other a lot (Dom’s even mentioned that Billy was one of the very few people he spent time with during lockdown, i.e. he was part of the Boyd family bubble *hearteyes*), they’re completely addicted to the same game (League of Legends - they really should be sponsored) and have now convinced Elijah to join their troupe.
Dear god, this podcast makes me happy. (I absolutely listen to it on the go and then watch it on Youtube when at home.)
If you’re lucky enough to stay at the Powderhorn Chateau in Ohakune, New Zealand, you’ll want to make sure and book one of the rooms in which the LOTR cast stayed in. That way you get to say things like, “I slept in Billy Boyd’s bed.” or “I showered in Billy Boyd’s shower.” Cause I TOTALLY did.
The photos above show some awesome LOTR cast signatures in the Chateau’s guest book (which they now have saved in a beautiful keepsake wooden cover), plus the shirt Sean Astin and Elijah Wood signed especially for the staff.
For a ridiculously high price, you can buy a keepsake hotel key chain with the name and number of the LOTR cast member’s room you stayed in. However, I’m way to cheap for that, I just took video. :D
I’m now thinking about Stephen Colbert calling all the LOTR cast and telling them “what about all of us getting together and humiliating all the trilogies on the planet while rapping ???”
I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people
I was like 12 and high off this shit
These movies CHANGED ME
This is one of my favourite parts of the whole trilogy. It’s haunting.
And that Pippin takes actually a happy walking song of his people, because Hobbit songs are generally happy and about food and drink and gifts and things, and *transforms* it into a mourning song.
The song is from Fellowship, before all the heavy plot hits and they’re still in the Shire. It’s about walking, and how eventually all the bad things that scare or sadden you will fade away and you’ll be home warm by the fire.
And Pippin takes it, changes the lines, the key, and sings a song that is truly fit for Denethor’s great hall.
Knowing Billy Boyd gave his own melody to it and everyone had chills after hearing him sing it. This is how you get actors involved with the story and character, this is how amazingly well these films were cast. Fans have been singing that haunting tune in echoing halls and caves and towers for 20 years now and it never loses its beauty.
On the wind I heard a sigh As the snowflakes cover my fallen brothers I will say this last goodbye
Night is now falling So ends this day The road is now calling And I must away Over hill and under trees Through lands where never light has shone By silver streams that run down to the Sea.
