They made the Balrog's roar by dragging a cinder block on the ground. I bet foley work is fun.
>>215517575Gotta appreciate kino sound design like that.
Oh, where are you going,So late in returning?The river is flowing,The stars are all burning!Oh, tra-la-la-lally,Come back to the valley,Oh, tra-la-la-lally,Come back to the valley, ha! ha!
>>215517893tom bombadil was a fag
And when Barad-dûr collapses they used glass breaking but with the pitch lowered. So many neat things in these movies.
when Isildur says 'no', actually he said 'on' but they put it in reverse
>>215518116Mind = blown
Did you know that Beorn was actually a very small bear, and they just shot him really close up
Moria was actually inspired by an old coal mine tolkien visited when he was a teenager,
>>215517575It's definitely fun, but for me it was pretty exhausting for some reason. I enjoyed cinematography much more despite it being more physically demanding
Viggo Mortensen broke his toe when he deflected the real knife that was thrown at him.