"Return to Middle Earth" special on tonight on the WB! 12/4 Wed.

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

Basically it went through how certain scenes were made. It showed new and old stuff I think. And the actors talked about it too. It gave some brief info on making the Helm's Deep battle. It showed Treebeard I think. The narrotor was a complete jackass, he mispronounced words, sounded like he didn't know what he was even talking about, and he even made up words (he called the Rohirrim Rohans). It said that the river and its bank were frozen overnight when they had to shoot a scene with gollum jumping into the river. In the book, the time was summer and it was warm but in New Zealand, it was winter. So PJ made the crew melt the river and snow on the bank for a few hours. Then the scene was shot and the actor playing gollum had to dive in the freezing water and pretend to catch a fish. Now if that was not bad enough for him, PJ had to shoot it 4 times I think (you know how PJ is about filming). It also showed parts of added scenes to the plot. Aragorn is dreaming? I don't know...ask Tigerlily. Viggo almost died while he was filming a scene where he flowed down the river. The current was stronger than expected and he got sucked under a rock but managed to get out (thank God). And finally at the end, they showed a short scene of TTT, where a group of Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas, along with some Rohirrim take on some orcs riding wargs. That was tight. Sorry I never explained it to you earlier, I just naturally thought someone else would do it, I think everyone tought the same. Hope this helps. Its been a while so I can't remember.