Posted: June 02, 2000 at 13:16:28: by Michael Martinez
: Looking at the sequence, When I initially watched the trailer I
: got the impression that the troops in the foreground were the
: Elves or, more likely Humans. They were in orderly lines with
: helmets with horsehair plumes from ear to ear looking vaguely
: like Roman legionaries.These were probably Rohirrim, then. The horsehair plumes you identify are what I base that guess on. : The troops who look like samurai were a disorganised rabble
: which is why, I presume, I thought that they must be orcs. They were charging a massed line of troops. It would be difficult for them to maintain any orderly formation (maybe real soldiers, trained and drilled for years in attacking in a massed formation, could do it -- but these were extras in a movie). : Of course they could be easterlings which might be why they
: look oriental. Possibly, but there aren't supposed to be any Easterlings in Rohan at the time of the War of the Ring. The battle could, of course, be for some other scene -- such as the Battle of the Pelennor Fields (but then we get some inaccuracies in that kind of scenario which would set the purists to howling). I suggest we have too little information to really know what that scene is portraying. And although I, too, have disagreed with many of Galadriel's interpretations of the sets, let's keep in mind that she may be an insider who is leaking information in a deliberately garbled fashion both to protect herself (or himself) and to keep the fans guessing about the real details.
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