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News from Bree
spymaster@theonering.net
Nov 11 2013, 9:38am
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See Denny's exclusive Beorn featurette plus our high-resolution set spy photo!
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 Denny's has just launched an exclusive look at Beorn's set, featuring what I believe is some of the first words we've heard from Mikael Persbrandt about his role as the shapeshifting bear-man. If you're avoiding visual movie spoilers, best look away now!
Persbrandt's is pretty laconic; more hints about what happens come from his (unwelcome?) houseguests.
Jed Brophy (Nori) describes him as a big man, a giant (apparently Beorn is eight-foot-tall (truly!)), and Peter Hambleton (Gloin) says that Beorn's relationship with animals and natures gives the set a classic fairytale feel. And Stephen Hunter adds that they subsist on cheese and bread and nuts (No honeycakes and fresh cream? Boooo!).
Persbrandt on the set itself:
It really was an amazing set. One of the most magnificent sets I've seen and worked in.
Our high-resolution spy set photo!
About halfway through, there's a fairly tight, side-shot of the exterior of the Beorn set. If you're wondering what it looks like from other angles, we have been able to obtain from NZ photographer Tim Clayton a license to reproduce a high-resolution copy of one of the photos he took at the Paradise set from outside the exclusion zone while filming was taking place back in 2011. You'll see it shows pretty much the entire set in quite glorious detail.
Just click the image for the full, 3000-pixel-wide version.
[caption id="attachment_82150" align="aligncenter" width="710"] Filming takes place on the set of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' in a remote valley in Paradise, Glenorchy, 66km from Queenstown. South Island, New Zealand. Copyright: Tim Clayton.[/caption]
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Glorfindela
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Nov 11 2013, 2:57pm
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Thanks very much for posting this.
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Mithlond
Nov 11 2013, 3:02pm
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It's the first time we see/hear Mikael Persbrandt talking on Beorn right? :)
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"There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power."
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Carne
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Nov 11 2013, 3:04pm
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I remember when we tried to analyze the tiny version of this photo back in 2011
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"Is that brown blot Beorn?" 
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Demosthenes
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Nov 11 2013, 3:17pm
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it was so frustrating to have to sit on the thing for three months...
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But this is a good time to show everyone the whole thing, I think. (I'd already used a crop to confirm Beorn).
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elanor_thefair
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Nov 11 2013, 3:37pm
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I visited New Zealand this year
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I visited New Zealand this year and had the opportunity to take a LOTR Tour around Queenstown, Glenorchy and Paradise.
Unfortunately, the Beorn's set had been dismantled, but the tour guide said that this tree just to the right of the photo is scenic and it still remains in place.
It is quite interesting to note, because it is the only tree that stands out in the region. I have a picture where you can clearly see the tree, but unfortunately I do not know how to post it.
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Oin K
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Nov 11 2013, 7:00pm
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Beorn's house is astounding. Also I think I located the set on Google Earth
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It's at -44.715255,168.353813 (go to Google or Bing Maps and paste that in the search, then switch it to terrain view). If you look at it in Google Earth you can see that in 2006, there wasn't much in that location, but in 2011, there's definite structures and signs of activity. You get a slightly different shot on Bing where the road to that location is very clear.
Not much to see from the aerial shots, but it's fun to find the locations where these things were filmed. I've got a few dozen locations marked in Google Earth where various bits of LOTR and The Hobbit were filmed.
"The Naugrim were ever, as they still remain, short and squat in stature; they were deep-breasted, strong in the arm, and stout in the leg, and their snouts were long. Indeed this strangeness they have that no Man nor Elf has ever seen a snoutless Dwarf - unless he were rhinoplasted in mockery, and would then be more like to die of shame than of many other hurts that to us would seem more deadly. For the Naugrim have snouts from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike..." (History of Middle Earth, volume 11, The War of the Truffles, p. 205)
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Thoromir
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Nov 11 2013, 9:13pm
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I kinda like Persbrandt's accent.
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We don't know how it all will turn out on the big screen, but I like his calm outlandish voice inthe interview. It will be very interesting to see his version of Beorn. Excited^^
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