LOTR Castmember Quotes

Edoras
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Topic
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Brad
Ring*Con, 11/22/02		 Edoras When you see the movie you'll love Edoras - and the movie doesn't even come close to what it was like! Sir Ian McKellen had tears in his eyes when he saw it - it was so beautiful. It was so symmetrical and perfect. You couldn't have designed a better location on paper!
Brad Edoras Edoras was beautiful, and it's a situation where the actors get something which the audience never gets. I mean, I got woken up at 3:30 in the morning, horrible bumpy roads, I come over this hill and there's this valley surrounded by snow-peaked mountains. In the middle of the valley, marshes on one side, flat grassland on the other, there's a gnarly hill that looks like God made it from Middle-earth. It was like a piece of Middle Earth time-warped here or something. And on top of it is the great hall of Edoras with all these buildings on it. You go up there and everybody's in robes. You're looking out on this high hill, this pure medieval world. Medieval costumes, swords and everything and you are sitting in a time, in an environment that is going to be torn down in weeks.
Ian Edoras Everyday we went there, spirits rose, whether it had snowed overnight, or the sun was out or it was pelting rain. There was majesty to that location. A secret valley, it seemed. A place where, if it had not been for the film, one would never have visited. That was a really magical time.
Karl Edoras Edoras was breathtaking. Not only because it's this extraordinarily detailed Middle-earth city built on top of this mini-mountain, but it was situated in this glacial valley with mountains on parallel sides and beautiful plains beneath. It was just such a privilege to be there, to actually be at Edoras. It actually existed. It took months to build, we worked in it for two weeks, and then they dismantled it so if you go back you wouldn't even know it's there.
Karl Edoras I think some of the most enjoyable moments I had working on the shoot were down at Edoras, in that glacial valley, parallel mountains running down either side. It's a shot that's in the third film, it's where all the - it must have been 150 horse riders, all in formation, in a large column. And at the head of it there's King Theoden, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and myself, and we're riding out. It was just spectacular. I mean, what a job. It's the feel of the ground; it's the sound of these horses, these 150 aught horses riding out in formation. It's just an extraordinary experience.
Karl Edoras Even under the most arduous of circumstances. We were shooting down in Edoras for a week, and there were these grassy plains that we were shooting as our backdrop. Then we come to work one day and it's covered in snow. I would have seen a lesser director actually not able to cope with it, but he was truly unflappable. He just said, "OK, look, we're going to set the camera up here, this is our first shot, we're going to bring the horses in from there, so we'll melt the snow here, then we'll turn the camera around-" And I was thinking, "Wait a minute, did you just say, 'Melt the snow?'" And there we are, ten minutes later, there are ten guys standing there with these industrial heaters gently melting the snow. These big gas heaters with flames and they melt in these 20, 30 meter radius. Of course by 10 o'clock the snow had melted in the sun throughout the valley and we continued. I think part of his idealogy was certainly, and it permeated the whole production, was "Adapt and overcome."
Miranda O Edoras The first day we arrived at Edoras was really memorable. To be picked up at three o'clock in the morning and have an hour-and-a-half drive to a set I hadn't seen before, then come over the hill and see the Golden Hall actually built in the middle of nowhere surrounded by these white covered mountains--exactly as it's described in the book—well, it was amazing.so exactly right and to feel as an actor you had so much to work with, that was really exciting. It's like when you were a child and you think about being a princess and having a palace and you wake up one morning and there it is. And they dress you up in all these fabulous costumes. It really is part of the fantasy you have as a child, I think.
Viggo Edoras The location for Edoras was, to me, one of the most beautiful, the most impressive. Everything was constructed on this knoll, and reading the book, it's exactly what you would dream and hope Edoras would look like, and feel like.

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