LotR3-RotK-Seq07

[Saurreg]

Tis a beautiful song really. I liked the piano, makes for good easy listening music before sleep.

I reckon the beacons on the peaks were manned by soldiers who were selected because they were either incompetent on the battlefield, most vigilant or were just too old. I will not discount the fact the they might have been voted out of their companies during the monthly company council,

"So it's one hundred and thirteen votes for Hurin eh? Sergeant Hurin, the Company has spoken. You have been voted out of Minas Tirith."

So what would an exiled beacon warden need? Aside from a study hut that can withstand heavy snow falls, he would need warm clothing, plenty of dried rations and huge quantities of fuel (animal fats or good firewood).

Any sort of beacon duty should last about one month or so me thinks.

[Elladan and Elrohir]

The beacon lighting scene is magnificent, as the sweeping mountain shots and the drop-dead gorgeous Shore score remove all memory of Pippin starting it.

Is it just me, or does Aragorn run weird? Obviously, this isn't the first time we've seen him run extensively, even in this film, but it strikes me as strange. Whatever its purpose is for (maybe it's just how Viggo runs), I think it works for the character.

You'll notice that the "Reclamation of Nature" theme (as Shore dubs it) reappears as the Rohirrim charge forward to their camp. This is the theme that first showed up in FOTR with the moth and Gandalf at Orthanc and was also heard in TTT with the Ents' fifty-yard march to Isengard and Theoden's charge from the Hornburg. We'll hear it again in this film, softly as the Rohirrim prepare to charge the Pelennor, and very briefly as the moth shows up again at the Black Gate. One of the most stirring of the film's themes, IMHO.

[Trotter]

Originally Posted by Elladan and Elrohir

The beacon lighting scene is magnificent, as the sweeping mountain shots and the drop-dead gorgeous Shore score remove all memory of Pippin starting it.

Is it just me, or does Aragorn run weird? Obviously, this isn't the first time we've seen him run extensively, even in this film, but it strikes me as strange. Whatever its purpose is for (maybe it's just how Viggo runs), I think it works for the character.

I agree, the scenery is breathtaking, very Middle-Earth-like!


Ha! I also found Viggo's odd leaps strange... He kind of throws his legs out in front of him and moves his body about wildly... Those long Strider shanks.

[Saurreg]

Heh, funny thing is I never took notice of the way he ran. Were you two referring to the scene when he when to Theoden after seeing that the beacon was lit?

Now the Theoden of that scene was more like the one we knew and loved in the books - loyal and stalwartly. I was prepared to groan and anticipate another "Where was Gondor" rant but the resolute "And we shall help them(?)" brought a smile to my face. That was the spirit of the Rohirrim right there.

As for the rout at Osiligath, I recalled that during the flashback of Faramir in TTT-EE, when Boromir was addressing his men: there seemed to be hundreds of heavy Gondorian men-at-arms. I wonder where all of them went?