No, we’re not in Middle Earth today, but I wanted to talk about the place I didn’t go the other day. Someone (Katie) was a little disappointed but I just didn’t feel like six hours in the bus. I did have some new friends who went and they’ve air-dropped me some photos. (Isn’t it wonderful that we can do that?)
Evidently when the film company wanted to film the Lord of the Rings movies here in the various locations the arrangement with the New Zealand government was that upon completion of filming, they would leave the locales exactly as they were before they started. Hence, the group that went out to “Middle Earth” saw beautiful scenery but absolutely nothing that was any part of the set. They were shown lots of photographs in big books by the guides and told that was how it looked during filming. Don’t get me wrong, my friends said the natural scenery was beautiful, but they didn’t see Edoras or anything else. I’m uploading a couple of what they gave me so you “get the picture.”
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| This is what one saw in the film |
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| This what is there minus sets and computer generated graphics. A little different? |
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| Here's their guiding showing them one of the photos |
Anyway, I just thought I'd write down to remember what magic is done in films nowadays. They can make us believe anything.
1 comment:
That does sounds like a long bus ride to not-see something that was never there? The whole country looks generally amazing though!
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