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QuackingTroll
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Apr 21 2011, 2:10am
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What will we see at Dol Guldur?
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I'd like a list of some of the things, creatures, characters and events we'll see at Dol Guldur...
Here's what I've got so far...
Necromancer/Sauron - Resides in Dol Guldur. Will he be "killed" or just run away? Will he be defeated by Saruman in an ironic twist? By Gandalf, his true enemy? Will we see his 'Anatar' face?
Khamúl - Guardian of Dol Guldur, one of the 9 ringwraiths. We can't see this character die because he's in LotR, so will he just run away? Also will he be on horse or fell-beast?
Mouth of Sauron - The Black Numenorian was Sauron's messenger between Mordor and Mirkwood at this time, will we see him? Again he cannot die as we see him in later films.
Undead army - Sauron's title 'The Necromancer' is suggesive of an undead army. What will these look like?
Werewolves - Sauron's title "Lord of the Werewolves" allows a possibility of werewolf creatures (Is this what Andy Serkis was mo-capping?)
Orcs/Trolls etc. - Will these look the same as in Lord of the Rings or other orcs in The Hobbit? How many will there be if any?
The White Council - Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, Elrond, Galadriel, Cirdan, Glorfindel. Who else is included and how big is this group? Do they bring an army?
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glorinfidell
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Apr 21 2011, 2:39am
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Zombies, and elves and trolls, oh my!
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I hope we see a better dead army then in ROTK. Not just green guys, but a living, yet decaying army, kinda like zombies. Seeing Kamul would be kinda cool. And as far as the white council goes, I would guess a army composed mostly of elves, from Lorien and Rivenedell. Oh, and a werewolf as a commnader in the army would be aswome!
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Mortimus
Bree
Apr 21 2011, 3:00am
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Not zombies by name (hopefully)
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Talking my pet peeve for walkies, I disapprove of the term 'zombie' for a work associated with Tolkien, given his predilection for Old Norse/Anglo-Saxon words. There are more appropriate names for appropriating than something with an African or Carribbean origin. Perhaps Fetch, Revenant or Huldra? None are wholly the same as zombie or the even more modern and too-generic 'undead', but their provenance to my ears is a little more sympathetic alongside the likes of Wight, Warg, Goblin and Troll.
Addressing the original question, I'm thinking we'll see werewolves in some form, maybe bat-shaped vampires if these aren't to be confused with the later giant bats at the BoFA. And Orcs!
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Bryan
Bree
Apr 21 2011, 4:11am
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Where are the White Council meetings?
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It is safe to say that at least one meeting would be in Rivendell, given how much work went into re-building that set. However, Lothlorien is close to Dol Guldor. Wherever it happens, people will have to travel far. I hope someone knows something about this and chimes in.
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Ainu Laire
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Apr 21 2011, 4:57am
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I mean, they're basically the same thing. More walking skeleton than just-killed person, but walking undead.
Those would be cool. And lore-tastic!
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Kangi Ska
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Apr 21 2011, 5:04am
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has opened a casino/hotel.
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Maiarmike
Grey Havens
Apr 21 2011, 5:47am
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...I can't help but think of Gandalf making himself a mechanical arm attachment and saying "Groovy...". Then before the siege he makes sure to instruct all the heathen elves about his "BOOMSTICK!", S-Mart's top-of-the-line.
The whole council/Dol Guldur stuff should make for an awesome battle-tastic finale for the first film as the dwarves are escaping the elves though, and it's the type of thing that's right up PJ's alley as far as creepiness is concerned. You have to have a suitable villain in the first movie on screen since Smaug doesn't really come into play until later.
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taekotemple
Grey Havens
Apr 21 2011, 6:03am
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I'd be afraid of what they'd do if I won the jackpot. *shivers* 
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turgon0402
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Apr 21 2011, 6:25am
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is mentioned in Unfinished Tales: "The Hunt for the Ring", and I think he might be mentioned in the Appendices as well but I'm not positive.
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dormouse
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Apr 21 2011, 7:30am
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I suppose it's on the cards that we will see some sort of pitched battle at Dol Guldur but I'm still hoping we don't - the mentions of Dol Guldur in the books don't give away much detail of what happened but it would be interesting to see them make more use of magic for the film. As for an army of the undead, under any name - no thanks, it's just not Tolkien.
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Maiarmike
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Apr 21 2011, 7:45am
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That's what's great about film.
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PJ has the creative license to take what we know about Dol Guldur, and make it an awesome experience. All we know is that Gandalf had visited the fortress a few times to investigate, and that Saruman, who was reluctant to attack, was later talked into launching an attack in 2941 T.A. It's possible that Sauron will be shown there until they decide to attack, and then when they finally do attack, they realize he's fled once again, but they could also include Sauron, and have him weakened in battle before he flees. I don't know if they're planning on showing the beginnings of Saruman's corrupt nature at this point, as he was interested in scouring the Gladden Fields for the ring, and hoped to keep Sauron from finding it first, most likely. There are so many possibilities.
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Hamfast Gamgee
Grey Havens
Apr 21 2011, 8:41am
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Was Elrond in the White Council? It didn't sound like he knew of the attack upon Dol Guldor when Gandalf speaks about it in Rivendell at the end of the Hobbit!
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AlatarVinyamar
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Apr 21 2011, 9:06am
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I wouldn't worry overly about that.
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Gandalf also talks of having been at a council of the White Wizards. Its a safe bet that Elrond will be in the White Council, along with Galadriel, Gandalf, Saruman and Radagast.
I don't expect to see Círdan and Glorfindel there.
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Alientraveller
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Apr 21 2011, 9:08am
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Continuing on from the last Dol Guldur discussion
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http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?post=346130
As I said there, I believe Dol Guldur will be more magic based to be different from the Battle of Five Armies (White Council has no army, White Council needs no army). PJ mentioned 'remnants coming off his body' when discussing the Dol Guldur drawing so perhaps as I've suspected we'll see Sauron using corpses as a host for his spirit, and his casting out will be why he appears as the Eye in LOTR. How creepy would it be for Gandalf to discover a dead body with Sauron's voice and flaming eyes coming out of it?
I hope we see some Wraiths to but with more helmets and armour like the Witch King, as a kind of reverse foreshadowing of their Black Rider guise. They are a type of undead afterall: perhaps we'll see some of them completely invisible? I'd like to see Werewolves and Vampires too, as some kind of forebear of Wargs and Fell beasts, and some Spiders to indicate the ones Bilbo encounterd were scouts.
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Kangi Ska
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Apr 21 2011, 9:32am
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Well I am not so certain about Elronds presence at Dol Guldur.
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There are very good logistical reasons for him to remain in Rivendell.
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Kangi Ska
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Apr 21 2011, 9:35am
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I agree with the idea that Dol Guldur will not be a battle of armies.
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Beyond that your guess is as good as any.
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dormouse
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Apr 21 2011, 10:19am
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Wraiths are a different type of 'undead', though, aren't they....
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... the spirit goes on because the ring won't let it die while the physical form, the body, wears away. Bilbo saying he felt 'thin and stretched' was supposed to be an early stage of the wraithing process and the Nine were said to wear hooded cloaks to give the appearance of physical form.
Seems to me that that is wholly different - the opposite, in fact - from the zombie, which is a corpse animated by some external power. Body but no spirit. Whatever you call it, that idea belongs to a completely different strain of mythology and it feels completely alien to Tolkien - well, it does to me, anyway. Unless I've got it completely wrong, the same was true of the Oathbreakers in Return of the King - they were restless ghosts, not rotting bodies. There's nothing in the books to even hint at Sauron inhabiting corpses and I really hate the idea because for me it doesn't 'fit' with Tolkien's mythology...
Just my take on it!
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Maiarmike
Grey Havens
Apr 21 2011, 11:01am
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But as much as I would love to see the Council basically raid Dol Guldur with magic and hell-fire not unlike many role-playing online games, PJ has stated on multiple occasions that he isn't a fan of wizards using flashy magic and all of that stuff you see in Harry Potter. He always likes to keep things more battle-based. But I could see him making exceptions for this movie, as the Necromancer is a sorcerer, and his minions are very fantastical creatures. The whole Dol Guldur sub-plot involving the council has the potential to be one hell of a climax, mixing scary, awesome, and action with dungeons and dragons goodness if it's done correctly. If it isn't (which I doubt), it would fall flat easily, and the Necromancer wouldn't seem threatening as a villain.
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QuackingTroll
Valinor
Apr 21 2011, 11:02am
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When Peter Jackson was a kid he filmed a Harryhausen inspired fight with stop-motion skeletons, so he's clearly a fan of Jason and the Argonauts. I'd love to see a reference to those in The Hobbit, it would look incredible.
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Flagg
Tol Eressea
Apr 21 2011, 12:22pm
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Gandalf was not recounting the attack on Dol Guldur to Elrond privately – the book tells us that many other Elves were also present and listening. A case could be made that Elrond had gone to Dol Guldur and was already familiar with the story Gandalf was telling, but it seems unlikely. We should also take into account that Tolkien's conception of what the White Council actually was evolved considerably between the two books – in The Hobbit it was 'a great council of the white wizards' (or something to that effect), but The Lord of the Rings tells us that it was composed of just five wizards (only one of whom was white) and numerous elven-lords (and one lady). It's probable that Elrond was not even a part of the White Council in Tolkien's mind when he wrote The Hobbit, and possible that Elrond would have gone to Dol Guldur if Tolkien had had the nature and the members of the White Council sorted out at that early stage.
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Flagg
Tol Eressea
Apr 21 2011, 12:26pm
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Tolkien describes them as rotting bodies or skeletons which have been inhabited by evil spirits – external forces; they sound very much like traditional 'undead' creatures to me. Considering that every Barrow on the Barrow-downs presumably contains one, there ought to be enough Barrow-wights to form a veritable 'undead army' if all of them are roused at once.
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AlatarVinyamar
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Apr 21 2011, 12:52pm
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I'm pretty sure Alatar and Pallando were not on the White Council
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Flagg
Tol Eressea
Apr 21 2011, 1:17pm
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I was not thinking straight.
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dormouse
Half-elven
Apr 21 2011, 1:23pm
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... I'd forgotten them, but please will you quote Tolkien's actual description of them as 'rotting bodies or skeletons which have been inhabited by evil spirits', because I can't remember it or find it. Seems to me it's the barrows that are inhabited rather than the bodies - in any case, 'the bones were stirred in the mounds' rules out any suggestion of actual bodies being animated by an external power. I think the Barrow wight is described as an individual entity with a will and agenda of its own which doesn't seem to include being called out en masse to fight battles - again, very different from zombies.
If I'm wrong, please show me where Tolkien describes Barrow wights as dead bodies animated by an external power, because that's the essence of what I'm getting at.
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