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Post by Stormrider on Oct 6, 2005 5:58:39 GMT -6
This morning at 12:01am the exhibit opened! Here is a blog site of how the museum set up the exhibit with pictures and day by day set up descriptions. www.indianamuseumlotr.blogspot.com/There are costume contests also so if we dress up, we could enter one!
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Post by Desi Baggins on Oct 24, 2005 4:39:32 GMT -6
We have been preparing our costumes for when we go to the exhibit. My boys will be Frodo and Sam. My husband will be Aragorn, I have added to his costume which is usually just a tshirt with the white tree of Gondor, but I am not sure if he will wear the extra stuff (on the hanger it looks really cool). I will be Treebeard. Stormrider will be Eowyn, my sister will be the Witchking and her friend will be Arwen. Also Sparrow will be a Hobbit! We can't wait!!!
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 24, 2005 4:47:57 GMT -6
We are working on the Witchking's crown right now. It is coming along nicely. We need some pipe cleaners for the spikes. Then we will work on some gloves and the boots. ;D The rest of our costumes are finished. I just picked up some new wigs for Arwen and Éowyn. You don't suppose you could get a wig for Frodo do you? Quenten is old enough to understand and wear one now. I know Colten/Sam probably won't wear one...we will be lucky if he lets us put the pots and pans on his back! I am really surprised at how excited and enthused Michelle and Stephanie are about dressing up! Next Halloween when they go to a costume party they want to be Arwen and the Witchking....!
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Post by Desi Baggins on Oct 24, 2005 5:14:34 GMT -6
I don't think I'll get Quenten a wig...I have been letting the boys hair grow out, not that it is long...but I can use some mouse and mess his hair up so it looks wavy!
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Post by Desi Baggins on Oct 30, 2005 13:39:42 GMT -6
What a fun trip!!! On our drive there we did hit some traffic because of an accident and some construction. We (myself, Stormrider, my sister, her friend, my hubby and my 2 boys) met Sparrow at Bob Evans for lunch right on time even with our traffic problem. We all headed to the hotel and changed into our costumes and took pictures. We couldn't take pictures at the exhibit, but we did pay for our pictures to be done on the Frodo/Gandalf cart. Most of the stuff on display were outfits/costumes. There were some models and a special cave troll display made just for the exhibit. We learned the cave troll is male too! There was an area were you could stand and it will tell you what race you were. We all bought some things at the gift shop...I bought a Lord of the Rings board game. We played that game at the hotel that night. It is a cute easy game, which is good cuz I will mostly play it with my boys. The best part was getting to see Sparrow again! We started a BRAND NEWphotbucket album here called TR Fans (since we had so much trouble with the proboards site changing the word "m ember" into "friend" automatically for our old Photobucket site. photobucket.com/albums/d128/TRFans/The password is: jrrtrules
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 30, 2005 15:40:14 GMT -6
One of my favorite things at the exhibit was when we took our pictures riding in the pony cart that Gandalf and Frodo rode in at the beginning of FOTR. It gave us an idea of how they did the special effects to make Elijah Wood small in comparison to Ian McKellen. Sparrow and I posed together as a hobbit (Sparrow) and Éowyn (me). The first picture I am the human sized person and in the second we switched sides and Sparrow was the human sized person. The first picture really turned out well and was well proportioned. Michelle (Witchking) and Stephanie (Arwen) did a sitting also. The first one Stephanie was the larger person and Michelle was smaller. This is a hilarious shot because Michelle looks like the child-sized Witchking sitting obediently next to a large Elven Woman. The next one is more to scale, although Arwen would not necessarily be as small as she is in the shot. Then Quenten (Frodo), Colten (Sam) and Scott (Aragorn) took turns and it turned out really strange because the boys were already hobbit sized to begin with. But Scott had Colten on his side of the frame because Colten wouldn't sit with Quenten--he had to be with dad!
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 31, 2005 19:39:42 GMT -6
It was really nice to tour this exhibit with Sparrow. It has been a few years since our last trip to the Caverns in Tennessee where we went looking for Gollum's Island! We had a very nice visit and got all caught up on all the latest things we have been doing.
The Movie Prop exhibit had the outfits and gowns of a Black Rider, Saruman, Gandalf the Grey, Frodo (and his Mithril shirt), Gimli, Aragorn's Ranger outfit, Theoden's Helm's Deep armor, Arwen's silvery blue gown, Galadriel's gown, Lurtz, Legolas, and Ithilien Ranger outfit, and the child-sized and adult-sized back pack and cooking gear of Sam. Did I miss any?
Close up, the Black Rider's robes were very airy and light weight with a velvet design throughout giving it a look of tattered royal burial garb. There was a display of the Crowns of Men and the Crowns of the Nazgul along with the Rings of Men and The Rings of the Nazgul. The head armor and breast collar of the Black Rider's horse was also displayed.
Frodo's Mithril shirt looked very delicate. His hobbit traveling clothes and the Mithril shirt were all displayed in the "hobbit-size".
Gandalf's robes were very rough looking. More like a woven wool. There was a display of the parchments from the library of Minas Tirith in the Gandalf section along with his pipe, and travel bag.
Legolas' outfit was very sleek looking and made of silk, silver, leather, and suede. Arwen's silvery blue gown and Galadriel's white gown were beautiful and made of silks, velvets, silver, and glass beads.
Does anyone who has knowledge of sewing know what they mean by silver? Was thread made out of silver? Because we did not see any silver buckles or clasps or anything of silver.
I could go on about all the outfits! But I won't! Maybe one of the others who made the trip will add more about them.
Of course, there were weapons, weapons, weapons, too. Bows, arrows, swords, spears, staffs, whips, and other nasty orcish things, armor, helmets, chainmail, shields, leather armor. It was really astounding to see.
There was a display of a chainmail shirt that a museum employee allowed us to actually pick up and look at closely. Each ring is very light and every ring intersects four other rings! It looked double thick and was pretty heavy. There was also a very plain helmet that was pointed on top like those from Gondor that the Museum empolyee let Quenten try on.
There was a model of Orthanc, Barad-dur, the Shire under Sharky's rein in Sam's Mirror vision, the Argonath, the Cave Troll, and Treebeard's head. I really would have liked to have seen the Minas Tirith replica--that would have been amazing, but it was not there.
There were three small maquettes (I think that is what they were calling the scale models) of Shelob's face and pinchers. I would have liked to have seen a large Shelob--one we would have to walk underneath!
I would have liked to have seen Grond, too! There was a maquette of an Oliphont with the bamboo troop carrier on its back. It was about 2ft tall.
There was a wall thick section about 6ft wide filled with rubber ears, hobbit feet, faces, in all colors, shapes, sizes and textures including hair.
The artists who helped design the sets had their sketches and digital prints displayed in a section, too. John Howe and Alan Lee had many sketches along with a few others whose names I don't remember and were not familiar to me. Being interested in art, I really liked this section so much that I bought Alan Lee's LOTR movie sketchbook in the gift shop. There was a really magnificent watercolor by John Howe of Gandalf and Frodo in the pony cart riding up to the hobbit hole. I REALLY loved looking at that up close!
Wow! I have really babbled on!
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Post by Stormrider on Nov 3, 2005 7:03:23 GMT -6
There was also a sword wielding simulation that you could try out. You stood in a separate room and had a sword (not sharp), faced a screen, and then went into action. A screen would display an image of a knight wielding the sword to your movements. We watched a boy doing it but didn't try it out ourselves. We should have let Frodo try it while we were there!
I had my face etched in stone at the exhibit. I placed my head into a round opening of a large plexiglass exhibit and rested my forehead on the instide of a helmet shape. Then I had to close my eyes and hold very still while they lazered my image. Then it was loaded into the computers and you could see it change into a stone statue.
I don't recall anything relating to Gollum at the exhibit. It would have been interesting to see something about him. The electrode suit Andy Serkis wore or something! Does anyone else remember seeing anything?
I don't believe they made a smaller replica of The Golden Hall while filming the movie. I think they built the entire set on location and filmed it from there. Too bad they didn't bring in the entry arches with the golden celtic designs for us to walk through.
That is another thing that they did not have...no tapestries or wall hangings from The Golden Hall or Minas Tirith. Or flags that went into battle. I would have liked to have seen those, too.
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Post by Desi Baggins on Nov 3, 2005 7:22:39 GMT -6
It was actually was a small exhbit compared to everything they could have had there. I don't remember anything on Gollum either. It would have been neat to see some banner from Rohan and Gondor!
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Post by Stormrider on Apr 5, 2020 18:55:31 GMT -6
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Post by Stormrider on Apr 5, 2020 18:56:32 GMT -6
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Post by fanuidhol on Apr 6, 2020 6:18:05 GMT -6
I just read the thread again. What fun!
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Post by Stormrider on Apr 6, 2020 10:13:04 GMT -6
Yes, it was a lot of fun. I was surprised my youngest daughter dressed as the Witch King, but she is kind of a bristly personality. Her friend was the elf. Desi was funny in the ent costume.
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Post by Andorinha on Apr 6, 2020 11:00:08 GMT -6
Nice photos, thanks for bringing them to our attention once again!
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