I just want to see the sailboat!

[Morsul the Dark]

yeah,,,numenorians thats what i meant I forgot if it was them or numnoreans..

Well the black gates would be built intimidating like yellow "do not Cross" police tape

But Orthanc was given to Saruman leader of the white council

[The Only Real Estel]

When he says: "Let's make some light" or something along those lines, and then the top of the staff starts glowing. It's a bit the same impression I have as with the Phial, it just looks cheap

It probably looks so cheap because the crystal on top looks like a little lightbulb or something .

[Gorwingel]

I've been trying to place the Phial for a while now. I know I'd seen it before, but something on this thread to do with living rooms prompted me to remember. A few years back I recieved a bottle of extremely unpleasant, and probably cheap, perfume.

To me it looks like a white bubble light

You know those lights that you put on your Christmas tree with a large bulb in the bottom and a thin glass vial filled with liquid that bubbles when it heats to a certain temperature (they are usually multi-colored, but I happen to have a white strand). During the holidays last year I even removed one of the bulbs off the strand and pretended that it was actually the phial (stupid, I know).

But yes, it does look a little cheap, especially if they took their insperation from a commonplace holiday decoration

[Sapphire_Flame]

Silly winged helmets.

I nearly die laughing every time I see those things. So silly.

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

A scene of true wrongness is this: the lighting of the beacons in The Return of the King. I do not blame the wrongness on Gandalf's interference. I do not blame the wrongness on Pippen's wall-climb. I do not even blame the wrongness on inept guards or Denathor's uncaring. My blame lies soley on the fact that there were fire-toting guards on the very tops of high mountains, and when the cameras pan, there are no houses, no sheds, no bleedin' shelters made of sticks even, where these men could have come from. No, there are simply random pairs of men frolicking at the tops of mountains, with fire prepared to light beacons that have not been lit in years, and no places to sit and have a nice mug of ale while they wait for an unexpected signal!

Does anybody else share with me in cringing horribly every time they see this scene?

Fea

[Encaitare]

Hah! Yes, that did have me wondering. I don't find it cringe-worthy, but I saw them and thought to myself, "What, do these guys just chill on top of mountains in sub zero weather waiting for some beacons to light?" I loved the scene for what it was; the camera work and music were great, but it was just a little weird.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I had never noticed that before. Well spotted, and yes, it will make me groan next time I see it.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Eomer

... and yes, it will make me groan next time I see it.

And that's a good thing?

I must admit that it did occur to me first time I saw the film that beacon-lighting duty would not exactly be the most enviable posting for a Gondorian soldier, but it most certainly didn't (and won't) spoil what I thought was a visually fantastic sequence.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

I have another bothering thing about the beacons. The whole scene is breathtakingly beautiful, yes, but if a beacon is on top of a mountain that high, that it's surrounded by clouds and mist, how does the next beacon litters know they should get a fire going?

I, for one, liked the look of the Phial but I wasn't very contended with the way Frodo and Sam held it. I don't know, how they should have held it but now their palms covered half of it. It would have been more efficient if they had held it some other way so the light could have shone better or something.