Michel Delving
03-25-2003, 12:21 AM
Dear Mr Jackson,
As I know you are a regular reader of these pages, I would like to bring to your attention my solution to your thorny problem of creating a physical presence for the Dark Lord in your lovely movie. I have single handedly reached the perfect conclusion and expect to be justly rewarded with a fantastic prize (free DVD's, insider set visits, trip to Mount Doom etc).
I was this very day reading The Silmarillion and came across a marvelous description of Sauron's shape shifting abilities. Where he changes from his true form to a Werewolf, to a Vampire etc etc.
Picture this scene: Gollum spits Frodo's finger from his mouth and dances his jig, slipping into the Crack of Doom. Zoom the camera across the plains of Mordor to Barad-Dur (in the way you do so well) to see an ugly dark shape, perhaphs enthroned and examining some ancient Sorcerers Almanac. His head snaps in the direction of Mount Doom and rises ( a la Morgoth) from his chair with a terrible cry. Moving from hideous darkness to full Battle armor, to Wolf etc we see his many guises. In this way you can satisfy everyone at once! Eventually culminating in a huge bat like shadow dissipating across the stormy sky as the Tower collapses.
Works for me.
Yours Sincerely,
M Delving, MD.
As I know you are a regular reader of these pages, I would like to bring to your attention my solution to your thorny problem of creating a physical presence for the Dark Lord in your lovely movie. I have single handedly reached the perfect conclusion and expect to be justly rewarded with a fantastic prize (free DVD's, insider set visits, trip to Mount Doom etc).
I was this very day reading The Silmarillion and came across a marvelous description of Sauron's shape shifting abilities. Where he changes from his true form to a Werewolf, to a Vampire etc etc.
Picture this scene: Gollum spits Frodo's finger from his mouth and dances his jig, slipping into the Crack of Doom. Zoom the camera across the plains of Mordor to Barad-Dur (in the way you do so well) to see an ugly dark shape, perhaphs enthroned and examining some ancient Sorcerers Almanac. His head snaps in the direction of Mount Doom and rises ( a la Morgoth) from his chair with a terrible cry. Moving from hideous darkness to full Battle armor, to Wolf etc we see his many guises. In this way you can satisfy everyone at once! Eventually culminating in a huge bat like shadow dissipating across the stormy sky as the Tower collapses.
Works for me.
Yours Sincerely,
M Delving, MD.