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LOTR Fans: What do you think about Mordor/Mount Doom?

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mithrandir2001

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Every time I watch one of the trailers - the one that come out yesterday is by far the most spine-tingling yet - I notice that the film makers are recreating Mordor and Mount Doom with way too much darkness and gloom-and-doom drama. When I read the books, I imagine Mordor as a dreadful place, but not anywhere near as bad as what they portray in the film: the whole screen looks like it is filled with soot and environmental catastrophe, cracks in the ground with flames spewing forth. As part of Middle-Earth, I thought Mordor would look slightly recognizable as a place fit for habitation (for animals, at least)...it's not on a different planet. Anyone else share my feelings?
 
i actually imagined it to be very similar to what they are dipicting,

the drawf guy looks fitting too, damn i forgot his name

the one who competes withe the elven ranger for dead orcs.


i like sam better then frodo, who do you like?
 
That's the trouble with books to film - everyone has their own idea of what things should be like... Not that your idea is wrong, but each of us creates the world in our own way... Tolken was a master of creating worlds and people - so I'm interested to see what the film makes of his works, and I've gone so far as to avoid the trailers of the film...
 
I always imagined it to be pretty bad. The books make it pretty plain that it was land wholly ruined by the Dark Lord with very little life at all. The portrayal seems pretty accurate actually.
 
I guess I just imagined it to be simply barren, bleak, grey, still and lifeless - something like the surface of the moon, but with marshes and bogs.
 


<< the drawf guy looks fitting too, damn i forgot his name >>



John Rhys-Davies

I also noticed that Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith in The Matrix) is playing Elrond.
 
mordor, a pretty much desolate desert with tons of black rocks that's always surrounded by clouds and crap. that's how i picture it.
 
Damn these trailers look fresh. I'm also almost done with the first book of TLOTR. I can't wait until the movie comes out.
 
John Rhys Davies plays Gimli, the nephew of one of the original party from The Hobbit.


But yeah, I pretty much pictured Mordor as being a barren bleak land with very little landscape of note except for Mount Doom, with a cloud of darkness sitting over it. But thats just me.
 
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