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Can I say WOW?!?
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gwendolyngrace and I spent the day going in to Boston to the Science Museum to attend the "One Ring" Lord of the Rings Exhibition.
Wow. There really are no words. If it comes anywhere near where ever you are, go and see it.
We saw the costumes up close and personal from everyone from Frodo to Galadrial, Aragorn to Gandalf. The dresses of Arwen, and the armour of Sauron from the Prologue. We saw suits of armor from every culture of middle earth depicted in the films. We saw an anatomically correct (naked) model of a cave troll that stood about seven feet tall. We got to hold Aragorn's sword. It's about five pounds. We listened to how they made the chain mail armour. And that they made about two thousand hobbit feet for Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. They could only wear a pair for one day of filming, and then they were shredded. I think they said that the armoury forges were operating twenty-four hours a day for three years before they shut down for their first afternoon off to make all the plate armour and weapons.
We saw the One Ring. We saw the Nine Rings of Men, the Nine Ringwraith Rings, and the Rings given to the Elves. We saw film clips on everything from conceptual art to how they created the software to create the "thinking" armies on screen. We saw a little film on the ten and a half *hours* it took to get the guy who played Lurtz (Lirtz? The head Uruk-Hai guy - that killed Boroman?) into his makeup. His call was Ten PM for an EIGHT AM filming call the next morning.
We saw the two sizes of packs for Frodo - the one he carried, and the "small size" one that anyone else may have carried for him - so the perspective was right. We saw film clips of the size doubles - large and small. Frodo had a size double - but then so did Gandalf. We saw film clips of the two sizes of sets they created for Bilbo's house - one for the Hobbits and one for Gandalf to hit his head on the beams for.
We saw the Ent Treebeard. There were interactive activities to do (we skipped those because the lines were so long) but wow. A phenomenal exhibit. Just so amazing. I can't even contemplate what it took to put it together.
So we did that last weekend. I spent the day today in bed with a fever (and nothing but aches and fever, oddly enough) that had been dogging me for the past two days. Fever broke, I'm feeling much better now. Sadly my day that had been going to be a vacation day became a sick day instead. Blech.
Oh, and I guess I should say "Go Sox" living here in Red Sox Nation. Funny, we were the only ones at rehearsal on Wednesday who wanted to go home to watch the premiere of the West Wing and not the final game. Gwen also tuned in to the last debate instead of whichever number game that was - probably one of the few who did here in New England (I was at rehearsal, and don't find the debates very useful).
gwendolyngrace and I spent the day going in to Boston to the Science Museum to attend the "One Ring" Lord of the Rings Exhibition.Wow. There really are no words. If it comes anywhere near where ever you are, go and see it.
We saw the costumes up close and personal from everyone from Frodo to Galadrial, Aragorn to Gandalf. The dresses of Arwen, and the armour of Sauron from the Prologue. We saw suits of armor from every culture of middle earth depicted in the films. We saw an anatomically correct (naked) model of a cave troll that stood about seven feet tall. We got to hold Aragorn's sword. It's about five pounds. We listened to how they made the chain mail armour. And that they made about two thousand hobbit feet for Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. They could only wear a pair for one day of filming, and then they were shredded. I think they said that the armoury forges were operating twenty-four hours a day for three years before they shut down for their first afternoon off to make all the plate armour and weapons.
We saw the One Ring. We saw the Nine Rings of Men, the Nine Ringwraith Rings, and the Rings given to the Elves. We saw film clips on everything from conceptual art to how they created the software to create the "thinking" armies on screen. We saw a little film on the ten and a half *hours* it took to get the guy who played Lurtz (Lirtz? The head Uruk-Hai guy - that killed Boroman?) into his makeup. His call was Ten PM for an EIGHT AM filming call the next morning.
We saw the two sizes of packs for Frodo - the one he carried, and the "small size" one that anyone else may have carried for him - so the perspective was right. We saw film clips of the size doubles - large and small. Frodo had a size double - but then so did Gandalf. We saw film clips of the two sizes of sets they created for Bilbo's house - one for the Hobbits and one for Gandalf to hit his head on the beams for.
We saw the Ent Treebeard. There were interactive activities to do (we skipped those because the lines were so long) but wow. A phenomenal exhibit. Just so amazing. I can't even contemplate what it took to put it together.
So we did that last weekend. I spent the day today in bed with a fever (and nothing but aches and fever, oddly enough) that had been dogging me for the past two days. Fever broke, I'm feeling much better now. Sadly my day that had been going to be a vacation day became a sick day instead. Blech.
Oh, and I guess I should say "Go Sox" living here in Red Sox Nation. Funny, we were the only ones at rehearsal on Wednesday who wanted to go home to watch the premiere of the West Wing and not the final game. Gwen also tuned in to the last debate instead of whichever number game that was - probably one of the few who did here in New England (I was at rehearsal, and don't find the debates very useful).