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The Armoury

Narrator:

The filmmakers of the Lord of the Rings used Tolkien's imagination as their guide in creating the movie's 48000 pieces of armour and weaponry.
[Warriors, swords, knifes]

Richard Taylor:

Culture, I believe, is based on detail, is based on generations of characters, of people, of species, build on top of the past generation's work. Every volute is in some way feeled like it has been touched by the craftsmanship of the species, the wizard. One of the most important things to me was that we generated a very strong feeling of culture.
[Richard Taylor, director, Weta Workshop, details of Gimli's belt]

Richard Taylor:

The shapes and forms and details and fluting that we were able to get in the armoury can only be done by the processors of the anvil, the hammer, the genie, the furnace that was generated in times past.
[Armouries of all the races of Middle-earth / craftsmen at their work/ Elrond gets dressed up in his armoury for the battle at Mount Doom in S.A, beautiful details, but he also gets black "orc blood" on it!]

Orlando Bloom:

Pick up a weapon, my own happen to be, was outrageously beautiful. All the things around you that you see, the details, are just fantastic. I mean, it's mind blowing. You just can't help but marvel about the time and energy and love that's been put into all of it.
[Orlando Bloom, / Legolas showing his abilities to use his hunting knife, / Arwen's sword]

Narrator:

That attention to details is surpassed only by the myriad layers of history Tolkien imagined when he created Middle-earth.
[Elrond and warriors of the S.A. running in front of a moving camera, taking their position to fight]

Peter Jackson:

He has created a mythological world which has extraordinary depth. You just scrape away the surface and there is more information that Tolkien created going back thousands of years.
[Peter Jackson]

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