Paths of the Dead?
 

I was just searching on theonering.net a while ago, and came across this picture...<P><A HREF="http://img-nex.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/7847.jpg" TARGET=_blank>Possiblitities???</A><P>It said on there that the figures in the background behind PJ might be a possible thing from the Paths of the Dead scene. What do you guys think?

I think I read a year ago in The Making of the Trilogy that they were going to include the Paths of the Dead in ROTK. Also there was that picture of Legolas comforting Aragorn about his decision to travel there.

They had better include the Paths of the Dead!! It is one of the most magnificent parts of the book!

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear on this, but I'm not asking if you think they are putting in the Paths of the Dead because we are all almost positively sure that they are including it. What I want to know is if you all think that the picture is FROM the Paths of the Dead or if it's just some other thing that has been left out of the movie.

Well, I do have to say that that looks a lot like a death Numenor to me... <P>Yeah, I think that it's most likely to be from the paths of death... I can't think of anything else were it may have come from...<P>Aethelwine.

It looks like some sort of animated corpse. Maybe a potential Barrow-Wight before that scene got cut?<P>Unless I'm mistaken, the Dead Men of Dunharrow were ghosts with no physical bodies.

That's very intriguing. Is it me, or is his stomach cut open? It's a good dead-person's costume though, they could easily make them look see through later of course.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Unless I'm mistaken, the Dead Men of Dunharrow were ghosts with no physical bodies.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>It's a good dead-person's costume though, they could easily make them look see through later of course.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yes, I agree. I mean, look how they did the Ringwraiths in the first movie. That was real people playing those parts, they just put some of their expert computer animators to it and afterwards they looked see-through. <P>And dragoneyes, I'm not sure if that's his stomach cut open, or just the first layer of his skin {or whatever you would call it} cut off. Either way, someone's been cutting through that guy.

If that is a dead body costume, which I think it is, than it might be what they'll use for the old corpse that Aragorn and company come across in the Paths of the Dead.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. It does look like the figure Aragorn finds in the Path of the Dead. With the gold armor and all.<P>Persoanlly speaking, I just finished reading the Paths of the Dead portion in ROTK since last reading LOTR over 20 years ago and I had goosebumps on my arms as I read it and was able to imagine the dead closing behind the Grey Company and following them and then traveling through the towns followed by the legions of the dead and Aragorn hailed or cursed as the King of the Dead, God I can't wait for the movie. It will be unbelievable.

Welcome to the Downs, kboleen! "O happy to be dead!"