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As many know, the costume segment of the Oscars ruled The Two Towers ineligible for a nomination
for the Best Costume Oscar. The reason being that the officials believed the production could have filmed a scene from The
Fellowship of the Ring in the morning and The Two Towers in the afternoon.
Now, first, that is misguided--the wear and tear alone had them making different versions. Second, there were
new costumes in The Two Towers because there were new characters and peoples. Third, they were making costumes right
until the end--including the reshoots. The scene with Arwen's purple gauze nightgown in the flashback/Aragorn dream was a
reshoot, according to The Art of The Two Towers. In other words, not enough of the costumes were new and exclusive
to The Two Towers.
Now, The Return of the King will have different costumes for even the regular characters (Merry, Pippin,
Aragorn) including some of the characters from The Two Towers.
Hopefully since they did not nominate
The Two Towers, that gives them a window to nominate The Return of the King, since there will be new costumes
in addition to the costumes from The Two Towers that were never considered due to the disqualification. Therefore,
I am including these costumes on this website so they can be considered along with The Return of the
King costumes.
"Because wardrobe had very little preproduction, initial complete drawings were confined
to the Fellowship. Later, because of time pressures, drawings were often only a rough indicator...allowing me to move the
costume forward more quickly to the toile stage.
By the time shooting started, we were on such a tight schedule, the drawing
stage dropped out completely once we had a "blueprint" for a civilization. We just started going straight into costume, making
sometimes three options for each character. Because it was important Peter had a choice. Nothing was ever wasted in this process,
the costumes not used by lead characters went straight into the extras' wardrobe. It was very effective really."
-Ngila
Dickson & Sylvana Sacco
Art of the Fellowship, pg. 118
"10,800
pieces for extras alone"
"the Wardrobe Department-which began as a team of eight people, but rapidly
grew to 50..."
"Ngila lost 10-15% of her staff because of burn-out, stress, etc."
"dressing 1500 extras on three different locations"
-Making of the Movie Trilogy, pg. 87,
90, 91
*40 seamtresses
*19,000 costumes
*Alan Lee & John Howe "suggest
rather than say"
-Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Extended Edition Documentaries, 1st
disc
Sam and Frodo in Mordor
"We took Polaroids whenever we were on the set so that we could keep track of which
particular version of a costume the character was wearing at each stage of the journey."
Working from scripts, Emma
[Harre] and her colleagues made graphs, charts, and maps: "It was the only way. When Frodo and Sam are in Mordor, for
example, their outfits go through twenty-seven different continuity changes."
-Emma Harre, Making
of the Movie Trilogy, pg. 89
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Updates:
Sept. 12--
Adding some new pics here and there. Still trying to figure out a decent layout. I may have help in the form
of a few classes that are using Dreamweaver. Maybe I'll pick up something useful.
Aug. 24--
A lot of new pics loaded. Plus a re-design/expansion needed. Still experimenting with backgrounds and borders.
More quotes to come, hopefully.
June 29--
Some new pics. Plus, I'm switching to smaller sizes for the pics. I made sure to compare them with the originals,
so I don't think the quality suffers. One of these days I'm going to look up quotes on the armor so I can add those.
June 8--
Lots of pics to add and a bit of re-working. I'm creating a separate Two Towers page for new TT costumes (but
not to RotK) and adding a loophole that may allow for the Academy to add those new TT when considering RotK's costumes. Plus,
I was reminded that Richard Taylor was included in FotR's costume award because he did the armor. So, that means I can add
the armor into the pics for consideration.
May 25/26
Added a disclaimer so that hopefully they won't force me to close down the site (not that I'd know if they asked,
since I get way too much spam to open an e-mail from someone I don't know). Added a Faramir, Boromir, Aragorn pic and quote.
Still playing around with backgrounds and dividers. BTW, if you see a pic or quote that doesn't quite fit--I haven't gotten
around to replacing it yet.
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