Archery and LOTR

Speaker · Mar 6, 2003

...and this here spear comes with a 3 foot expansion, non-slick grip, scalable weights in the shaft to optimise flight performance, optional attached rangefinder, exterior stabilizers, replaceable tips--hollow, titanium, light-weight steel--GPS locater, and a one time only offer of a booster rocket attachable for a mere $99 dollars more. Is that all you want, Mr. Smith?

Seriously though, I use a 40-pound right-handed bow custom made, and I don't let anyone come near it with sighting equipment or any other newfangled gadgets. Give me the thrill of sighting down an arrow before the shot anytime

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I didn't say I always hit what I aim at though...

Endur · Mar 6, 2003

Great website

Great Website

jhanzur · Mar 6, 2003

mmu1 said:
Hmm... Perhaps we should have spear-hutning seasons, that'd simplify things.

Or chase game down with pointaaad sticks?

Skullfyre · Mar 6, 2003

Nice site.
I wish the pictures were on there though(not showing for me...)

mmu1 · Mar 6, 2003

jhanzur said:
Or chase game down with pointaaad sticks?

If you're going to hunt with a low-tech weapon, hunt with a low-tech weapon... If you're going to use something made out of composites with a scope attached, then just cut the crap and get a shotgun.

jhanzur · Mar 6, 2003

mmu1 said:
If you're going to hunt with a low-tech weapon, hunt with a low-tech weapon... If you're going to use something made out of composites with a scope attached, then just cut the crap and get a shotgun.

umm, ok.

NeonWolf · Mar 6, 2003

Could Peter Jackson have searched for a more professional archer-slash-actor? He could but then he will probably be behind production schedule. I mean it was bad enough he couldn't find the right actor to portray Frodo until Elijah sent him an audition tape near crunch time.

I await an analysis on Aragorn/Strider's swordfighting technique (performed by Viggo Mortensen). [/B]

Actually, from what I heard. Orlando Bloom had suffered a major back injury 3 years earlier and had been told he would never walk again.

As for Viggo Mortensen he was a very late, last minute actor. The original actor who's name PJ refuses to reveal, dropped out. So Viggo came in. Because of this he missed out on all of the swordsmanship training that the other actors received. He was then thrown in the deep end by having to do the Weathertop scene first.

krunchyfrogg · Mar 6, 2003

Awesome site!

Now find me a dwarf one!

Mouseferatu · Mar 6, 2003

NeonWolf said:
As for Viggo Mortensen he was a very late, last minute actor. The original actor who's name PJ refuses to reveal, dropped out. So Viggo came in. Because of this he missed out on all of the swordsmanship training that the other actors received. He was then thrown in the deep end by having to do the Weathertop scene first.

PJ may refuse to reveal it, but it was in all the entertainment mags and sites when he was first cast.

It was Stuart Townsend. Yeah, the guy who played Lestat in Queen of the Damned.

I, for one, am grateful that PJ and the others realized they had cast too young before it was too late.

Kershek · Mar 6, 2003

I personally prefer shooting period crossbows, though I do have vertical bows as well. Here's a shot of the bows I have.

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