Apart from my purchase of a DVD±RW burner, this is a pretty big news story in my short fat world. Remember when we found out the role of Arwen would be expanded in The Lord of the Rings movies? There was talk she would be a “warrior princess”, that she would fight alongside Aragorn at Helm’s Deep? Many purists, myself included, were horrified at the thought that this mostly unseen character in the book would be so drastically altered. But then it was explained that this was a concept from the old Miramax days and had since been abandoned.Nevertheless, Liv Tyler would talk in interviews about how she had taken fight lessons, or a call sheet would be uncovered which showed she had been on the set for that sequence. Most recently Brian Sibley, author of the movie’s companion books, mentioned he’d heard the computer artists at Weta Digital talking about digitally removing Arwen from Helm’s Deep. At first he thought this was a joke, but now it looks like they might have been quite serious. The Council of Elrond.com (by way of The One Ring.net) has spotted Arwen in some freeze-frames from the climactic charge at Helm’s Deep: http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/2/1042493150 [11:23 AM]
Update: What can I say — I was bored. I created this animation of the scene in question. It’s been rumored that Arwen was converted into Legolas in some shots, and perhaps the reason Arwen shows up here is because Legolas is in the same shot:
Geek!