Loneanimator
Lindon
Aug 27 2009, 10:23am
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Frodo and the Barrow Wight
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NOTE: If you're easily upset by home-made Tolkien fan films, please move on.
This short clip comes from a bigger project that was never finished. Somewhere around 1999 I was part of a group of Swedish artists and musicians who worked on a musical video version of "Lord of the Rings"! For real! This was just before Peter Jackson´s mega-version of the books grabbed the world. At the end of the 1960's, Krister Gustavsson and Stefan Håkansson had written bluesey folk-rock songs based on the many poems of the books.
At first we got permission from the publisher Harper Collins and the Tolkien estate to do an amateur version of the story. Then New Line Cinema pulled all the worldwide rights to protect their interests. This could very well be the biggest disappointment of my life. Now I realize that our version was very humble indeed and not much different from other amateur efforts, with hand-held cams and kids for hobbits.
I still finished this little part for the really curious and added an animated barrow-wight hand. Those of you who know the book can see that I've changed the barrow-wight fight a little bit.
"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama."
J. R: R: Tolkien
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