Ace, challenge time!
In the lord of the ring return of the king, there's a deleted delicately delightful whumpy scene of our dear dear Faramir being treated by Aragon in the halls of healing after he was saved from a crispy death via his wonderful (yes im saying it sarcastically 🙄) father Denethor the dolt.
Any chance you can gif that extraordinary excellent scene of whumpy goodness?
Whumpookies 🍪
WAIT WHAT!?!?! THERE IS!?!?! HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS!!
I know there's a scene in the extended version where Aragorn takes care of Eowyn after the battle but there's a scene of him healing Faramir!? WHERE IS THIS!?
If I can find a video of it hell yeah I'll gif it! That sounds utterly beautiful.
edit: oh my god i found two stills of it and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE!!! Is there any video of this!?!? Where can i watch it?! Is it on the dvds? I'll go get them from library if i need to. THIS IS SO GOOD!!
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I originally had this whole series of posts about Radagast in mind - but ultimately I will probably scrap the project so instead, I'll share random trivia and cool stuff.
And I will begin with something I don't see ANYBODY talking about anymore: Radagast ALMOST appeared into the Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson trilogy. Like... he was there, you had the actor, the costume, the place in the scenes, everything was prepared, but he was scrapped at the last minute.
You might have seen this picture before if you are a long-time fan of the LotR movies:
This picture of a live-action Radagast comes from the Decipher Inc.'s "Lord of the Rings Trading Cards Game", an official set of collectible cards affiliated with the Peter Jackson LotR trilogy. By affiliated I mean, "based on the movies and using exclusively images from the movies". Well... almost since some characters that did NOT appear in the movies still get live-action pictures (and yes this was LONG before the Hobbit movies were even in the work).
Here are the cards depicting Radagast and affiliated items:
If they are not from the movies, where do these pictures come from? Well, they were created by Weta Workshop - who worked on the Peter Jackson movies. A lot of the cards depicting subjects not appearing in the movies were created after the trilogy was concluded, completely with new material, the concept just being checked by the movie-team, but the Radagast cards are a whole other story, and truly fascinating in this regard...
Because the costume and props were already pre-existing before they decided to make this card game. As I said above, there were plans for Radagast to appear in the trilogy at some point - as a background character in unspecified scenes. Daniel Falconer revealed all that in interviews: John Harding had been cast to play Radagast, they designed his costume and staff, they made him undergo photo-shoots for the upcoming movie... But Radagast was ultimately deleted.
However all was not in vain, since when it came time to create Radagast cards for merchandising, all Weta had to do was call back Harding, put him back into the costume, and tadaa!
We still have a few, low quality pictures of the behind-the-work designing of Radagast - very precious pieces and some of the only clues of this iteration of the character. Here they are:
All these pictures come from a 2008 forum thread on The One Ring forum where the upcoming Hobbit movies were discussed (it was still the time when it was thought it would be a duology instead of a trilogy). Link is here.
The images originally came from the website of Weta Workshop - it was on the same website you could find many more pictures of their behind-the-scene works for the card game, as well as the interviews I evoked above. Unfortunately the pages do not exist anymore... But the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive allows us to go take a look at them! Praise our lords of the Internet Archive!
Here are saves from 2004. Here Daniel Falconer's interview with assorted pictures ; and here an illustrated article about the making of the card game. (You'll find in these pages not just Radagast talks, but also talks of Glorfindel, Tom Bombadil, Beorn and more - and here is a third article about the making-of).
To conclude this post about a Radagast that never was, here is a picture that was taken of John Harding in his Radagast costume, standing between two cardboard cut-outs of Peter Jackson's Saruman and Gandalf. As such, we can see what the three most famous wizards of Middle-Earth would have looked like in the original Peter Jackson trilogy.
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DID YOU KNOW that in the extended cut of The Return of the King, there is a song that was composed by Howard Shore and performed by Liv Tyler called "The House of Healing" a.k.a. "Arwen's Song" which was cut from the theatrical version? Click this link to check out this beautiful song and also the superb acting of all the LOTR cast. https://youtu.be/y8KnwKxJSIY
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