Non-illegal fangirling

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

The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved.

Lavender & Chamomile

prints ♥

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behind aziraphale, you have: the bookshop, the universe as it is. they could ask god to put everything as it was, but as it was, the universe and humanity are always going to be subject to the something else of god and heaven and hell. michael so easily destroyed the universe. that's the whole point. it was easy for her to decide and to break the rules and go mad on the power. to remain in the bookshop, in this universe, is to always have that threat. aziraphale could have rewritten the book of life, but then there'd still be a book of life.

instead he wrote them the choice.

behind crowley, you have: the same twinkle lights as the south downs. the tree. the garden. the universe as it could be. where people can just be people, and no one has to save the world. it just gets to be. they just get to be. they're surrounded by their history. the nightingale still sings. i have the universe, and i have you. i have everything i've ever wanted.

Point of order.

King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.

This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.