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#421 Bashkuga

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 01:06 AM

A weird thing is how "Eastern" Dale and Laketown look from the stuff I've seen.
The Laketown guards all have conical helmets, the structures have a very non Norse style to them which you'd expect.


The Norse style has already been used on Rohan, so a copy of that wouldn't be original. Besides, I think they still wanted to use some northern elements, the Slavic states had a lot of Norse influences, so PJ probably used those for the movie. Dale and Esgaroth use Norse stuff, but in a Slavic version ;). Oh well, we need to wait for the behind-the-scenes stuff to confirm this, it's all just theories, and very interesting indeed :D.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 08:45 AM

Dale seems more italian than anything else.


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Posted 13 June 2013 - 08:58 AM

The Hobbit- The Desolation of Smaug, March 2013 Live Event Excerpt.mp4_snapshot_01.21_2013.06.10_22.32.21.jpg


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Posted 13 June 2013 - 09:26 AM

*Cough* That's Lake Town *Cough* Not Dale *Cough*

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 09:49 AM

Rewatched it and indeed, it's just Esgaroth who uses the Slavic elements.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 10:52 AM

WETA is confusing the lot of you! ;p They seem to mix different elements from earth's cultures. The Haradrim, for example, had elements from the Aztecs and the Kiribati Islanders.


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Posted 13 June 2013 - 11:05 AM

Gee Bofur you think?


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Posted 13 June 2013 - 11:24 AM

I have been known to... :p

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 11:55 AM

"Endearing and likable, Bofur has a disastrous tendency to state the obvious and blurt out things without thinking." Oh wait, that's the character bio. ;p


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Posted 29 June 2013 - 05:07 PM

Some info on the Extended Edition of AUJ... Girion could be interesting...

http://www.empireonl...y.asp?NID=37919

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Posted 01 July 2013 - 06:56 PM

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Posted 01 July 2013 - 07:43 PM

and even more Radagast...sigh.

 

Really good shot of the Elven armour.


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Posted 01 July 2013 - 08:06 PM

That Elven Armor, reminds me to post something ....


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#434 Bashkuga

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Posted 01 July 2013 - 08:33 PM

Well, the Elven swords caught my attention, frikking awesome!


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Posted 01 July 2013 - 11:25 PM

pretty sweet. Annnnd in my immaturity i died laughing at legolas and turiel cherry popping on the horse. :w00t:


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Posted 02 July 2013 - 06:54 PM

Read, and make of it what you will:

http://thorinoakensh...icle-in-empire/

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Posted 02 July 2013 - 07:14 PM

PJ is continuing to stray further and further from the source and at this point doesn't give a shit and even relishes it. :(

It would seem that this movie is going to be very Elven just like Two Towers was.

 

One of the last lines in that article made me actually face palm.

"Jackson has always felt that the book lacked a definitive confrontation between the Dwarves and their great nemesis, Smaug.

He's rectified that. There will be bombs, infernal artillery and one pissed off dragon".


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Posted 02 July 2013 - 09:27 PM

When I read that I did the same. 


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Posted 02 July 2013 - 10:38 PM

Who wants to sponsor a trip for me to go to New Zealand and smack some sense into PJ?


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Posted 03 July 2013 - 02:21 AM

All I see is green screen, green screen, and green screen. Whatever happened to shooting mostly on location as it was in Lord of the Rings?


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