...it takes about 12 signal fires to light the way from Rohan to Gondor, when it's only a three-day ride. Dramatic, but silly.
Well, Theoden specifies it's a very hard 3-day ride, so let's say 75-100 miles per day. Looking at the map backs this up, with a crow's-flight distance of ~250 miles.
Visibility in perfect conditions is about 50 miles. Those mountains are obviously NOT perfect conditions, with snowy fog, so let's say 10-30 miles. It looked like about 20 miles between signal fires. 250 miles / 20 miles = 12 signal fires. Makes sense to me!
If you look at this map, you can see the probable locations of about half of the fires; it only makes sense to tie them to the outposts of Amon Din, Nardol, Erelas, etc., etc.
Mordor seems to take about 2 hours to cross
This bugged me; I would have like two fewer shots of Frodo going "Oh god, it's heavy!" and two more 4-second-long shots of Frodo and Sam slogging across the plains of Mordor.
I believe Gandalf espouses his views on death, at least as drawn by Peter Jackson, accurately. He seems too at peace with it to be just flat-out lying. Likewise, it ties in with the death-is-a-journey theme of the whole movie (and, in fact, the meta-story of Peter Jackson coming to terms with the end of the series).
Frodo's clothes: I assume they found them, and he wore them *under* the orc gear. Yeah, could have used a 5 second explanatory shot.
The tribute to the AT-ATs I found more amusing than anything else. I was waiting for someone (probably Legolas) to climb up to the underbelly of one and throw a sapper charge in.
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Date: 2003-12-22 06:34 am (UTC)Well, Theoden specifies it's a very hard 3-day ride, so let's say 75-100 miles per day. Looking at the map backs this up, with a crow's-flight distance of ~250 miles.
Visibility in perfect conditions is about 50 miles. Those mountains are obviously NOT perfect conditions, with snowy fog, so let's say 10-30 miles. It looked like about 20 miles between signal fires. 250 miles / 20 miles = 12 signal fires. Makes sense to me!
If you look at this map, you can see the probable locations of about half of the fires; it only makes sense to tie them to the outposts of Amon Din, Nardol, Erelas, etc., etc.
Mordor seems to take about 2 hours to cross
This bugged me; I would have like two fewer shots of Frodo going "Oh god, it's heavy!" and two more 4-second-long shots of Frodo and Sam slogging across the plains of Mordor.
I believe Gandalf espouses his views on death, at least as drawn by Peter Jackson, accurately. He seems too at peace with it to be just flat-out lying. Likewise, it ties in with the death-is-a-journey theme of the whole movie (and, in fact, the meta-story of Peter Jackson coming to terms with the end of the series).
Frodo's clothes: I assume they found them, and he wore them *under* the orc gear. Yeah, could have used a 5 second explanatory shot.
The tribute to the AT-ATs I found more amusing than anything else. I was waiting for someone (probably Legolas) to climb up to the underbelly of one and throw a sapper charge in.