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Mar 2 2015, 1:29am
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i would love to see a middle earth film actually shot in the uk and parts of europe. though i love new zealands landscapes in the films, sometimes you just want to see a nice english oak tree! some real shires and some real ruins!
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Eruonen
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Mar 2 2015, 2:24am
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True, some of those distinct features that are not native to NZ would have been nice.
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Mar 2 2015, 5:37am
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Conveys ancientry and it proves that real structures look a lot better than CGI versions
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moreorless
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Mar 4 2015, 1:50am
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The "British but not" look worked well for me..
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i would love to see a middle earth film actually shot in the uk and parts of europe. though i love new zealands landscapes in the films, sometimes you just want to see a nice english oak tree! some real shires and some real ruins!
I'v always thought that NZ worked well as a location because it has that sense of being similar to the UK but subtly different.
Where I think the UK would have been a good location is if the first half of FOTR had the same kind of detail and slow pace of the book. The sense of the everyday landscape with subtle hints at ancient history and magic. To achieve that though you'd probably have needed to spilt FOTR into two films.
You could I spose argue that a "bridge" film or something based on the war with Angmar might be better suited to filming in the UK or Europe as it would be featuring a similar kind of landscape.
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dormouse
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Mar 4 2015, 10:02am
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While my heart says that it would have been good to see the film shot here in the UK - mythology for England, and all that - I think New Zealand really worked better in the end. I love the British Isles and we have some very beautiful places, but the 'history in the landscape' which we have in shedloads, is all very recognisable history tied to obvious periods of our past - Roman walls, Norman castles. For me those things would have been off-putting: I'd have known what they were. It's also a more crowded landscape - you can't go far without seeing a road or a pylon or some other evidence of now.
The New Zealand landscapes used in the films were similar and yet had that otherness about them - and everything on a grander scale - higher mountains, broader sweeps of uninhabited land. It was right for a myth.
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Mar 4 2015, 11:47am
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Certainly right for the kinds of films Jackson made...
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While my heart says that it would have been good to see the film shot here in the UK - mythology for England, and all that - I think New Zealand really worked better in the end. I love the British Isles and we have some very beautiful places, but the 'history in the landscape' which we have in shedloads, is all very recognisable history tied to obvious periods of our past - Roman walls, Norman castles. For me those things would have been off-putting: I'd have known what they were. It's also a more crowded landscape - you can't go far without seeing a road or a pylon or some other evidence of now.
The New Zealand landscapes used in the films were similar and yet had that otherness about them - and everything on a grander scale - higher mountains, broader sweeps of uninhabited land. It was right for a myth.
Jacksons versions of both LOTR and the Hobbit focused quiet heavily on wild landscape and didn't look to take realism to extremes.
Again I would say if you had a story that focused more on Arnor as a location I could see the advantage of the UK or Ireland. Less so using castles/bridges and more the form of the landscape, the sense that its been shaped by human/hobbit hands over thousands of years.
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Mar 4 2015, 9:51pm
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Na 'Aear, na 'Aear! Mýl 'lain nallol, I sûl ribiel a i falf 'loss reviol...
To the sea, to the sea, the white gulls are crying, the wind is blowing and the white foam is flying...
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