Hi folks,
last week I enjoyed some holidays - and since the official "Lord of the rings - Exhibition" stayes in Germany for some weeks, we deceided to visit it. Maybe some would want to read about...
Well, I thought it bigger but nevertheless it was worth seeing.
The exhibition is located in a movie park near Berlin. It was a little pity the park itself was still closed, it would have been much fun to watch all the other requisites and so on as well
But I was there to visit LotR-Exhibition and that we did. What a wonderful visit! Ok, I have known most of the shown articels already from pictures I found in the internet but to see it in real is something different nevertheless. The most beautiful for me (of course) were the original costumes of Arwen and Galadriel - there were only three dresses (
) but its ok, they can´t only show this beautiful gowns just for me
hehe. There were Arwens green and blue gown and Galadriel´s Mirrorgown. I have loads of pictures or this dresses out of the Internet but in real they look even more glamourous!!! It´s so fantastic!! amazing!
The other shown things are many production sketches by Alan Lee, John Howe and others, builted miniatures of "Barad-Dur" and "Orthanc" - even Treebeard was there
I saw at least 5 monitors where people could watch interviews or short "making of" scenes (I guess many of them are on the Bonus DVDs as well).
They show weapons as well, made of different materials - wood, for the "only to show" people in the backround - plastic, also "only for the look" but for the closer looks
- aluminium, for the fights. They showed an elvis sword in all three variations and a rohan sword in all three variations... we only could figure out the wooden ones - ok, the aluminium elvish swort was nearly sharp but in rohan style we couldn´t figure out which one is the real.
There were many many weapons shown and a whole box of "hobbit ears" and "hobbit feet" and so on - we watched a "behind the scene" for "Lurtz"-make-up - it took 11 hours to place the costume and mask around the actor.
In one corner of the exibition the theme was "forced perspective" - there was a bank to sit on - cut in two pieces, one was big the other side was small - visitors can buy a picture sitting on this bank with a second person (costs 5 Euros) -> one person looks tall like "Gandalf" the other one looks small like a hobbit (of course on the picture both figures sit beside)
In the foyer of the exhibition they sold some souvenirs - shirts, toy trucks, mugs, jewels and so on - one place they offered to buy a ring, looking like "the one ring" from the movie but you could choose which material you want (of course at different prices), the most impressing was "Titan black" but it was pretty expensive as well - and you could order individual engravings in it. They offered 4 "elvish" fonds.
All in all we were through within two hours - maybe a bit more.
Best wishes
Shelley
NTSMS has gone Frankfurt - again! 