Evil Agent
November 16th, 2003, 12:40 PM
Did anyone else go to this? I went last week, when I was just finishing up my 8 week trip to Europe.
Being a LOTR addict, I found it pretty awesome, and I was surprised to find I spent over 2 and a half hours in there, which is longer than I last in most museums.
They had a HUGE array of real props and costumes from the movie, including basically every main characters costume, as well as generic costumes for all the other races of man (i.e. Rohans, Gondorian soldiers, Easterlings, Haradrim).
They had tons of weapons, crowns and rings and cloaks of the Nazgul, statues of Treebeard and Lurtz (made especially for the exhibition), all of the Rings of Power (except, oddly, any of the dwarven rings), and the One Ring itself.
They had the shards of Narsil, the Evenstar, Aiglos the spear of Gil-Galad (which I snuck a touch), Glamdring (Gandalf's sword, who's runes apparently say something about Turgon the mighty king of Gondolin wielding the sword!!!), and more. They even had the full size costume for Sauron, from the prologue of the first film.
I paid 3 pounds to get my picture scaled down to Hobbit size as well, which was a bit corny, but still looks hilarious.
The one thing that sucked is that TWO things were gone from the exhibition, temporarily, for reshoots of Return of the King!!! These were Gimli's costume, and the huge 10-feet-tall-or-so model of Orthanc! Which is weird, considering the recent revelation that Saruman has been removed from the third film. Why would they need Orthanc for reshoots???
Just wondering if anyone else has been, or whatever.
Being a LOTR addict, I found it pretty awesome, and I was surprised to find I spent over 2 and a half hours in there, which is longer than I last in most museums.
They had a HUGE array of real props and costumes from the movie, including basically every main characters costume, as well as generic costumes for all the other races of man (i.e. Rohans, Gondorian soldiers, Easterlings, Haradrim).
They had tons of weapons, crowns and rings and cloaks of the Nazgul, statues of Treebeard and Lurtz (made especially for the exhibition), all of the Rings of Power (except, oddly, any of the dwarven rings), and the One Ring itself.
They had the shards of Narsil, the Evenstar, Aiglos the spear of Gil-Galad (which I snuck a touch), Glamdring (Gandalf's sword, who's runes apparently say something about Turgon the mighty king of Gondolin wielding the sword!!!), and more. They even had the full size costume for Sauron, from the prologue of the first film.
I paid 3 pounds to get my picture scaled down to Hobbit size as well, which was a bit corny, but still looks hilarious.
The one thing that sucked is that TWO things were gone from the exhibition, temporarily, for reshoots of Return of the King!!! These were Gimli's costume, and the huge 10-feet-tall-or-so model of Orthanc! Which is weird, considering the recent revelation that Saruman has been removed from the third film. Why would they need Orthanc for reshoots???
Just wondering if anyone else has been, or whatever.