[doug*platypus]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I love the way that legolas reads the sign from right to left. Does anyone know if ths is something taken from Tolkien's creation of this language? i.e. did Tolkien create a language that was read right to left? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>It's probably Prince Leggy's infamous sense of direction coming in to play again! After all he thinks that northwest is northeast (TTT), and that Uruk-Hai coming from Isengard would be on the left bank of Anduin (FOTR).<P>Big ups to the film team for including the Púkel-men. They made a big impression on Merry at least, and I guess they've become one of those tiny iconic details that we couldn't be without. But I get the feeling that their inclusion was more from a desire to be superficially accurate with regard to the book. I mean that PJ and Co went to a lot of trouble to recreate things and places accurately, even if they weren't as careful with dialogue or characterisation.<P>Maybe the flashes of Púkel-men intercut with Aragorn's dream were just a cinematic device, rather than having any significance. PJ knows the text extremely well (if you don't believe me, listen to the commentary on TTT) and I think he would have known that they were not meant to represent the Oathbreakers, although maybe he changed that for the movie.