DiCinema

Production designer Grant Major personally supervised the translation of all the writings in Balin's tomb into Dwarvish. He was then horrified to learn that a visiting J.R.R. Tolkien scholar had taken great offense at seeing the phrase "Joe was here" among the writings. They scoured the contents of Balin's tomb and found nothing, only to learn that the scholar, who was overly serious about everything to do with Tolkien, had been told this by a crew carpenter, who has having a joke at his expense. Intrepid fans later published screen captures and translations of Moria wall segments, where the runes spelled "John was here", and "Made in New Zealand". During pre-production, Weta artists asked Tolkien expert Michael Martinez if there were any examples of Orc graffiti in the book. Martinez found one citation (in the chapter where Frodo, Sam, and Gollum see a defaced statue in Gondor). He used other passages to argue that the Orcs would have used runes to carve graffiti on Moria's walls.

Film

Persone

Nessun dato in archivio

SerieTv

Nessun dato in archivio