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Dangers of working on a set.

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

i found a translation of the fellowship that used the word jinn as a translation for elves, and several people took issue with the choice, but i found it simply perfect. elf, in english, has two connotations in the same way that the word jinn does, and the translator chose this word for a reason. i found it a clever choice.

‘elf’ can evoke either galadriel and fëanor or santa’s little helpers, and you would not swap out this iconic, useful word for another because of either connotation, would you? ‘jinn’ can likewise evoke figures of great mystery and mystique in worlds far removed from our own, or it can evoke horror stories told around a campfire. not only does this match the word for elf in english, in a sort of way, it perfectly captures the sheer difference between elves in the silmarillion and elves in the lord of the rings. 

Arwen Undomiel Queen of Gondor

I drew a little extra sweet moment to this here

Because when Frodo describes himself we don't really have much of description of his looks or/and oftenly his personality. We know what he says, what he thinks and what he does but it is rarely accompanied with any kind of physical description from him, because he has no desire to describe himsef detailingly.

When we move to Sam's pov, however, we have whole multi-paragraph description of how beautiful Frodo is, how his almost transparent skin shines under the sun, how peaceful his face is in his sleep, how cheerful is his laugh and how painful it is to look at his hardships. Like, the difference beetwen Frodo from general pov and Sam's POV is incredibly sweet and so, so funny.

Frodo: This is Frodo. Frodo is Just A Guy. He's currently going through the worst time of his life. Frodo looks like Frodo. Please, let him exist in this mortal plane for one more second.

Gloin is the sexiest dwarf by dwarf standards.

Kili is the sexiest dwarf by elf standards.

Thorin is the sexiest dwarf by human standards

This is after the fall of Isengard, when the Fellowship and some men of Rohan reencounter Merry and Pippin after their capture.

"He" refers to Merry

a) Pippin did a Gollum impression in the books

b) Pippin had never MET Gollum before that point and never would

c) yet it was an ACCURATE impression, as it startled and was recognized by the orc he was speaking to