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POSTED Sunday , August 08, 2004 04:47:40 PM Delete post? (Moderator ONLY)
This will be an interesting set, when and if they get around to making the film.

I've looked at many pictures that are drawn and painted. (Did Howe do one, too?)

None of them really fits what I had imagined when reading the book.

Anybody have a favorite artists rendering they like?

This one came from www.tuckborough.net



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It will probably be the most elaborate set they will need for making this movie. It will present a real challenge, because unlike Minas Tirith or Helm's Deep, it will be a wooden town, surrounded by water, with boats coming to and fro.

Some of it could be done in small sections I suppose, with a good model representing the town from a "dragon's view".

The scale of the town is something I can't really resolve from pictures I've seen. I always pictured it as very large, like having as many houses as Edoras did, but maybe its more like a village than a big town, after all, [SPOILER] the dragon takes a lot of it with him when he falls on it. [/SPOILER]

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I always thought it would be a pretty small place. maybe like Bree.

I don't have a good picture in my head of what it should look like. That will be a really intersting set. I wonder what lake region in New Zealand they will use.

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I pictured it as a medium sized town with wooden cabins and the like on a bunch of floating barrels that were weighted down to the bottom of the lake bed with something...massive rocks, maybe.

The way I figure it, they can film the whole town on blue or green screen (probably green) and then just have a bunch of cabins set up of varying sizes.

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brentage5000 said:

I pictured it as a medium sized town with wooden cabins and the like on a bunch of floating barrels that were weighted down to the bottom of the lake bed with something...massive rocks, maybe.

The way I figure it, they can film the whole town on blue or green screen (probably green) and then just have a bunch of cabins set up of varying sizes.


The book mentions pilings specifically, probably sunken into the bottom of the lake.

Knowing PJ and the team, they would probably build a large, real set.

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This is about the best representation I've seen as an actual schematic layout.

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LordofAmroth said:

This will be an interesting set, when and if they get around to making the film.

I've looked at many pictures that are drawn and painted. (Did Howe do one, too?)

None of them really fits what I had imagined when reading the book.

Anybody have a favorite artists rendering they like?

This one came from www.tuckborough.net






I like that one! Though it didn't quite fit what was in my head, neither did Rostrons... I grew up in Wisconsin so I guess I extrapolated from that, there are so many lakes and houses that are built up to the water ,some out on the water I kind of had that idea with a town extending from the land by piers and such onto the water more with surrounding areas wooded and hilly.

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I like it, too, because it looks substantial. A good target for a dragon.

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I found myself cracking open the Hobbit again to peruse over the descriptions Tolkien used - I bet I'm not alone.

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They will almost certainly build a town or parts of a town, to some plan. As they said last spring:

Peter Jackson: "Middle-earth is location, with very few structures really. It's a natural countryside and that's where a lot of shooting will take place."

Guillermo del Toro: "Location will be favored and real set construction... I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film..."

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Rostron2 said:

They will almost certainly build a town or parts of a town, to some plan. As they said last spring:

Peter Jackson: "Middle-earth is location, with very few structures really. It's a natural countryside and that's where a lot of shooting will take place."

Guillermo del Toro: "Location will be favored and real set construction... I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film..."




I am growing more fond of Guillermo every day!

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Agreed, he certainly thinks along the same lines. There's nothing like 'a live world' to act in. I think Miranda Otto was asked how she prepared for scenes as Eowyn, and she said something like, "It's easy, I just walk onto the set of Meduseld, and I'm Eowyn."

So, I expect that Lake Town will be really interesting, and different enough in style from what we've seen in LOTR that GDT can put his own touches into it when working with the artistic folks creating it.

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