#the two towers
On this day in T.A. 3019, Saruman dispatches his ruthless Uruk-hai warriors to track down the Fellowship of the Ring in a bid to obtain the One Ring for himself.
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Christopher Tolkien, third son of J.R.R. Tolkien and editor of much of his posthumous work, including The Silmarillion, has died at age 95. Thank you for bringing your father’s vision to life through your work. Rest in peace.
On this day in T.A. 3019, Gandalf the Grey is separated from the Fellowship of the Ring and confronts the Balrog Durin’s Bane alone on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm.
Artwork by Gonzalo Kenny
On this day in T.A. 3019, the Fellowship of the Ring arrive at the Doors of Durin, entrance to Khazad-dûm, at nightfall.
Artwork by Ted Nasmith
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On this day in 1977, Orlando Bloom was born. He made his breakthrough as Legolas Greenleaf in Peter Jackson’s the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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![‘So you have been there [to Mordor]?’ Frodo insisted. 'And you’re being drawn back](https://64.media.tumblr.com/84092f11ba8cb24b71564d2e7e49b1e0/tumblr_n1yym1m4P41rtwlb5o1_1280.jpg "‘So you have been there [to Mordor]?’ Frodo insisted. 'And you’re being drawn back")
‘So you have been there [to Mordor]?’ Frodo insisted. 'And you’re being drawn back there, aren’t you?’
'Yess. Yess. No!’ shrieked Gollum. 'Once, by accident it was, wasn’t it, precious? Yes, by accident. But we won’t go back, no, no!’ Then suddenly his voice and language changed, and he sobbed in his throat, and spoke but not to them. 'Leave me alone, gollum! You hurt me. O my poor hands, gollum! I, we, I don’t want to come back. I can’t find it. I am tired. I, we can’t find it, gollum, gollum, no, nowhere. They’re always awake. Dwarves, Men, and Elves, terrible Elves with bright eyes. I can’t find it. Ach!’ He got up and clenched his long hand into a bony fleshless knot, shaking it towards the East. 'We won’t!’ he cried. 'Not for you.’ Then he collapsed again. ’Gollum, gollum,’ he whimpered with his face to the ground. 'Don’t look at us! Go away! Go to sleep!’
'He will not go away or go to sleep at your command, Sméagol,’ said Frodo. 'But if you really wish to be free of him again, then you must help me. And that I fear means finding us a path towards him. But you need not go all the way, not beyond the gates of his land.’
Gollum sat up again and looked at him under his eyelids. 'He’s over there,’ he cackled. 'Always there. Orcs will take you all the way. Easy to find Orcs east of the River. Don’t ask Sméagol. Poor, poor Sméagol, he went away long ago. They took away his Precious, and he’s lost now.’
'Perhaps we’ll find him again, if you come with us,’ said Frodo.
'No, no, never! He’s lost his Precious,’ said Gollum.
–J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, “The Taming of Sméagol” (Art by Peter Xavier Price)
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The king now rose, and at once Éowyn came forward bearing wine. ’Ferthu Théoden hál!’ she said. ‘Receive now this cup and drink in happy hour. Health be with thee at thy going and coming!’
Théoden drank from the cup, and she then proffered it to the guests. As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face and smiled; but as he took the cup, his hand met hers, and he knew that she trembled at the touch. 'Hail Aragorn son of Arathorn!’ she said. 'Hail Lady of Rohan!’ he answered, but his face now was troubled and he did not smile.
–J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, “The King of the Golden Hall”
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A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful; and there great lords had dwelt, the wardens of Gondor upon the West, and wise men that watched the stars. But Saruman had slowly shaped it to his shifting purposes, and made it better, as he thought, being deceived–for all those arts and subtle devises for which he forsook his former wisdom, and which fondly he imagined were his own, came but from Mordor; so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child’s model or a slave’s flattery, of that vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength.
–J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, “The Road to Isengard”
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- [For Lord of The Rings] I had to do huge battle scenes, and in Hollywood films when it gets to big crowds it’s really only at most two thousand people. But Tolkien writes about Helm’s Deep and ten thousand Uruk-hai, and the only way to do that was in a computer. So we created the “Massive” software, where each of the computer people makes its own choices. At the first test screen we had 30 CGI people running at each other and half of them turned and ran away, so we had to dumb them down and tell them to stay fighting.
- You don’t know how the battle is gonna turn out?
- No. If you have orcs fighting elves, you teach CGI orcs how to fight like orcs and CGI elves to fight like elves. You’re literally not in control. You have this huge battle scenes with horses for and that renders for about three days and we don’t know what it’s gonna be like, so we wait and see.
- [Per il Signore degli Anelli] dovevo fare scene di battaglia enormi, e nei film di Hollywood quando si tratta di grandi folle in realtà al massimo ci sono duemila persone. Ma Tolkien parla del Fosso di Helm e diecimila Uruk-hai, e l’unico modo di farlo era a computer. Quindi abbiamo creato il software “Massive”, dove ogni “persona da computer” fa le proprie scelte. Ai primi screen test c’erano 30 persone CGI che si correvano addosso, e la metà si è girata ed è scappata via, quindi abbiamo dovuto renderle meno intelligenti e dirgli di rimanere a combattere.
- Quindi non sapevate come sarebbe andata la battaglia?
- No. Se hai degli orchi che combattono gli elfi, insegni agli orchi CGI a combattere come orchi e agli elfi CGI a combattere come elfi. Non li puoi controllare. Hai queste scene di battaglia enormi con i cavalli e le fai andare per circa tre giorni e non sai come verrà, quindi attendi.
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‘A man may do both,’ said Aragorn. ‘For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!’
- A Rohir and Aragorn, The Two Towers, Book III, The Riders of Rohan
(requested by eruionmelda)
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- Saruman to Gandalf, The Two Towers, Book III, The Voice of Saruman
(‘Saruman talking about the crowns of seven kings, and the rods of the Five Wizards’, requested by anonymous)
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- Grishnákh about Uglúk, The Two Towers, Book III, The Uruk-hai
Black Speech:
“Uglúk to the cesspool, sha! the dungfilth; the great Saruman-fool, skai!”
(as in ‘The Peoples of Middle-earth’)
or:
“Uglúk to the dung-pit with stinking Saruman-filth, pig-guts, gah!”
(as in 'Vinyar Tengwar’)
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![”[…] We only wishto catch a fish,so juicy-sweet!” - Gollum, The Two Towers, Book IV, The Passage of](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbiw2jJxQE1r9sebro1_1280.jpg "”[…] We only wishto catch a fish,so juicy-sweet!” - Gollum, The Two Towers, Book IV, The Passage of")
”[…]
- Gollum, The Two Towers, Book IV, The Passage of the Marshes
We only wish
to catch a fish,
so juicy-sweet!”
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I just think that Legolas with heterochromia
“For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.”
ALT
ALT“Elladan and Elrohir were out upon errantry: for they rode often far afield with the Rangers of the North, forgetting never their mother’s torment in the dens of the orcs.”
Hey remember that one time when Legolas looked at Aragorn like that
