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addendum<\/b> | wow do people like linking to this moreso than the original post from aicn<\/a>. hey der. to answer a few questions\u2026no, i cant verify any of this (im just another aicn reader). yes, the return of the king rocks<\/i> much. if you hear any new news, feel free to comment\u2026b\/c damnit, i want to know also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

some rumors emerged recently on aint it cool news<\/a> about what to expect from the forthcoming extended version of the return of the king<\/b>. one negative rumor (and hopefully its just<\/u> a rumor) and the rest covering the coo content that was obviously left out of the theatrical trailer\u2026including the aforementioned witch-king vs. gandalf beatdown. word. its spoiler material (for those who havent read the book anyway)\u2026so its in the extended read below. > continued\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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> original article (via aicn)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

* I\u2019ve been secretly emailing Billie and Katie Jackson, trying to get them to start sending me some insider info. Billie, unfortunately, has felt some sort of curious loyalty to his parents and refused to spill the beans. Katie, on the other hand, claims that Dark Horizons was offering her two chocolate frogs and an orange lolly\u2026 that damn Lolly put it out of the budget range Harry allowed for the caper so it was then that negotiations broke down. Luckily, we still have top spies embedded deep within Mount Doom, and here\u2019s what they had to offer on the upcoming Extended Edition of RETURN OF THE KING\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(BEWARE\u2026 Spoilers abound) <\/b>
\u2013 Word is that New Line are balking at the price for another Extended Edition, and may be farming out the FX to El Cheapo American FX House Inc rather than the high-quality excesses of WETA\u2026 our scooper (Toss the Dwarf) pointed out that this is strictly rumour-mill stuff, but remember who told you first.
\u2013 This one isn\u2019t going to come as a surprise, but for the record: we\u2019ll be seeing Gandalf and his Power Rangers confronting Saruman after the Helm\u2019s Deep battle, followed by the multi-coloured one falling to his death.
\u2013 Merry will pledge his allegiance to Theoden in a scene similar to the Pippin\/Denethor bit. Toss points out that shots from this scene have appeared in an early ROTK teaser, as well as a *very* early LOTR teaser from way back in the beginning.
\u2013 Following his acceptance of Anduril from Elrond, Aragorn uses the Palantir to reveal himself to Sauron. Sauron shows him a vision of Arwen\u2019s sickness. This stuff was used instead during the dream sequence just before Elrond arrives at Dunharrow in the theatrical cut.
\u2013 From the horse\u2019s mouth: \u2018Remember the scene in which the Witch King is asked what he\u2019s going to do with Gandalf, and he says I will break him? This pays off big time in a battle between the Witch King and Gandalf as Gandalf and Pippin ride to save Faramir from the pyre. At the end of the battle, the Witch King breaks Gandalf\u2019s staff and then the Rohirrim turn up and the Witch King gets distracted. The beginning of this confrontation is one of the $$$ shots in the ROTK trailer: the Witch King\u2019s fell beast landing on the ramparts in front of Gandalf and Pippin on Shadowfax.\u2019
\u2013 \u2018We see Gamling die on the Pelennor Fields theres a quick shot of Eomer bawling in the ROTK trailer.\u2019
\u2013 \u2018In the Houses of Healing, Aragorn heals Faramir, who then meets Eowyn and they fall in love. Aww.\u2019
\u2013 \u2018A disguised Frodo and Sam join a column of marching orcs on the way to Mt Doom. Their master is a ferocious orc captain with a whip. Remember the line heard over the sweeping shot of the orcs marching down through Mordor right after the Cirith Ungol sequence? That\u2019s him, yelling Come on you slugs!.\u2019
\u2013 \u2018The Mouth of Sauron scene changes the emphasis of the entire final battle between men and orcs at the Black Gates. In the theatrical cut, Aragorn and Co. ride up to the gates, they open, and orcs come out to fight. In the extended version, they are greeted by the Mouth of Sauron (played by the Matrix\u2019s Train Man, Bruce Spence), who has pointy teeth and a pointy helmet that covers his eyes (he doesn\u2019t need them, see? He\u2019s just a mouth). He rides out to show the heroes Frodos mithril vest, recently stolen by the orcs at Cirith Ungol, and to let them know that Frodo is dead and the ring is on its way to Sauron. Aragorn believes him, and the heroes despair. Going into battle at the Black Gates, the heroes have no hope at all it\u2019s their last stand for sure, and Aragorn\u2019s line for Frodo refers to his sacrifice, not to buying time.\u2019
Well, there you go. I quoted Toss word-for-word there for the most part so I wouldn\u2019t have to think too hard about the film before I saw it! More to chew on until November of next year\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

addendum | wow do people like linking to this moreso than the original post from aicn. hey der. to answer a few questions\u2026no, i cant verify any of this (im just another aicn reader). yes, the return of the king rocks much. if you hear any new news, feel free to comment\u2026b\/c damnit, i want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cin3ma-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8549,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}