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Loresilme
Valinor
Mar 28 2014, 4:01pm
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Screencap of the Day: Lord of the Details-Southrons
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In the section of screencaps for this week I clicked through one after another of action shots where there is a lot of blur and not much detail. Then I found this one, and wow, what an amazing amount of detail. I haven't watched the Appendices in a while, but I'm guessing there was probably a section on the design work that went into the Southrons.
Some comments:
1. There seemed to be a lot of variety in their armor / costuming. Some had very minimal covering with legs and arms exposed, and then others, like this one, are almost completely covered up in baggy sleeves and trousers. I noticed there is even a stain underneath this fellow's arm which looks very much like an underarm perspiration stain  . The film team didn't miss a detail, did they!?
2. What do you think of all the detailing on the - I guess we would call these, "howdahs"? I can't help thinking the folks on the team who constructed the props and sets must have had a lot of fun designing and building all the riggings and skins and whatnot for them. And do you think that probably every one of those knots used on the ropes was researched and are authentic, specialized knots used historically for rigging  ?
Please feel free to share any other comments, and thanks so much for visiting SCOD this week!
 Loresilme
(This post was edited by Loresilme on Mar 28 2014, 4:01pm)
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BlackFox
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Mar 28 2014, 6:58pm
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I posted this on The Hobbit Movie board earlier today: "It's the overall attention on detail that continues to amaze me when it comes to these films." I stand to my words!
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Loresilme
Valinor
Mar 28 2014, 7:12pm
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"It's the overall attention on detail that continues to amaze me when it comes to these films."
So true! And the details that I continue to notice for the first time, even after many viewings.
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Mar 28 2014, 7:34pm
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There may be a special reason why this guy is covered up.
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The Southron peoples are supposed to tend towards darker skin than the Men of the North. This dude looks as pasty as a native Londoner.
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Riven Delve
Tol Eressea
Mar 29 2014, 8:12pm
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"he" is a "she"!
“Tollers,” Lewis said to Tolkien, “there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.”
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Mar 29 2014, 10:47pm
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The rider is pretty fair-skinned either way!
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Mar 29 2014, 10:47pm)
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HeWhoArisesinMight
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Mar 31 2014, 2:30am
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Depends on how "far south" the rider comes from
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There are fair-skinned people in the Middle East and given the conception of the Haradrim in Peter Jackson's LOTR, these people are based on Persians and Turks or maybe Arabs or Mughals, who would have been much darker-skinned. The Mughals did use elephants as beasts of war.
The peoples of Far Harad were probably much darker, but whereas Tolkien mentions them in ROTK and TTT, Jackson doesn't conceive them in the movies. It would have been cool to see the armies of the different far-off places, kinda like in the first 300 movie.
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