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Middle-Earth Tours
Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth
The Emyn Muil
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| But always they found its outward faces sheer, high, and impassable, frowning over the plain below; beyind its tumbled skirts lay livid festering marshes where nothing moved....--TTT, "The Taming of Sméagol" |
"No Way Forward," by
Rob Alexander |
No Way Down, by Ted Nasmith |
pic from Cinescape magazine, via
The Land of Shadow |
image from the TTT extended edition DVD |
The rope seemed to give him confidence, though he shut his eyes more than once when he looked down between his feet. There was one awkward spot, where there was no ledge and the wall was sheer and even undercut for a short space; there he slipped and swung out on the silver line. But Frodo lowered him slowly and steadily, and it was over at last. --TTT, "The Taming of Sméagol" |
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Down the face of a precipice, sheer and almost smooth it seemed in the pale moonlight, a small black shape was moving with its thin limbs splayed out. Maybe its soft clinging hands and toes were finding crevices and holds that no hobbit could ever have seen or used, but it looked as if it was just creeping down on sticky pads, like some large prowling thing of insect-kind. And it was coming down head first, as if it was smelling its way. Now and again it lifted its head slowly, turning it right back on its long skinny neck, and the hobbits caught a glimpse of two small pale gleaming lights, its eyes that blinked at the moon for a moment and then were quickly lidded again.
...Now they could hear his voice creaking and whistling.
'Ach, sss! Cautious, my precious! More haste less speed. We musstn't rissk our neck, musst we, precious? No, precious -- gollum!' --TTT, "The Taming of Smeagol" |
The Taming of Sméagol,
by Alan Lee |
from a trailer on the official
movie site |
from a trailer on the official
movie site |
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image from DVD Town |
Things would have gone ill with Sam, if he had been alone. But Frodo sprang up, and drew Sting from its sheath. With his left hand he drew back Gollum's head by its thin lank hair, stretching its long neck, and forcing his pale venomous eyes to stare at the sky.
'Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'll feel it this time! I'll cut your throat.' --TTT, "The Taming of Sméagol" |
| Note how closely the shot of Frodo and Gollum above, left, matches Alan Lee's conception of the scene. Peter Jackson has said that this was intentional. |
And what would you swear?' asked Frodo.
'To be very good,' said Gollum. Then crawling to Frodo's feet he grovelled before him, whispering hoarsely: a shudder ran over him, as if the words shook his very bones with fear. 'Sméagol will swear never, never, to let Him have it. Never! Sméagol will save it. But he must swear on the Precious.' --TTT, "The Taming of Sméagol" |
from a trailer on the official
movie site |
Full-size versions of these pictures are on display at Rolozo Tolkien and the official LotR movie site.
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