"We were in the Shire in January, we've been inside the crack of Mount Doom, to the path of Kathhardrath, Lothlórien, the swamps of Mordor...I can't imagine we have anything left to shoot! [Laughs.] We've got the Shelob stuff coming up--and the internal scenes at Hobbiton, though."

As we all know, Mordor was a volcanic desert - no swamps there. The (IMHO excellent) pre-production art showing Sam and Frodo looking down from a rocky outcrop at a column of Orcs marching across a barren, dusty landscape seems to indicate that Peter Jackson also envisages Mordor as a desert. So where do the "swamps" come in?

My best guess is that Astin was referring to the Dead Marshes which Sam and Frodo pass through on the way to Mordor. With all the mixing-up of the times and locations in the story due to the shooting schedule, maybe it is possible that Sean got mixed up and when he said "Swamps of Mordor" he meant "Swamps NEAR Mordor"? Or maybe he isn't that familiar with the book and thought that the dead marshes are actually IN Mordor?

And what about "Kathhardrath" - well obviously that is the fairy castle inhabited by Galariel's evil sister, Queen Beruthiel. Either that or John Forde couldn't spell "Caradhras".

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