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Old 06-01-2003, 02:12 AM   #19
Everdawn
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>The "Olympic" runner orc with the torch for lighting the explosives at Helm's Deep! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yeah we thought so too, in the cinema we were yelling, "go son! do it for ya country!"<P>Oh yeah, and the tossing dwarf thigie, if you listen to the directors commentary in the extended FOTR DVD it explains that it is a refference to a game played in england up to hundreds of years ago when they would throw small people around... not "tossing off" as in the Aussie/Nz context! lol.
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