On the witch-king's ridiculously large mace

I had to extract this hilarious little clip with Lawrence Makoare as the witch-king of Angmar. Weta (Richard Taylor, Daniel Falconer and John Harding) discuss the designing of the oversized battle mace he carries in Return of the King.

Hope you enjoy.

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[LivingIn1969]

witch king=best villain ever

[padfootrocksmysocks]

"either way, i ended up calling it damned heavy cuz... it was damned heavy."

[blackheartsbirth]

@mrksuckerberg that's why he writes his own movies lol Tolkien would have flipped in his grave if Tarantino directed LOTR

[HindsightPOV]

Peter Jackson is such a size queen. XD

[mrksuckerberg]

If this was a Tarantino film, the witch king would have killed that stupid farm bitch...not before he had ripped her ears off with a dull razor

[ThePhoenixrider100]

@donxavier10 I think that his intention WAS to make it entertainment. And while in the book it is great to give the Witch King a great atmosphere of fear and explain his power to drive people insane with fear, in film you can't show that as easily. They made him as terrorfing as possible and used the giant mace as a visual message of his termendous power. It is difficult in a visual mediam to have an atmosphere of tenstion and fear in the middle of the day etc

[ThePhoenixrider100]

@donxavier10 But Gandalf didn't know how to get into Moria in the book either! He is a very old man in a mortal, worn-out body, so he isn't infalible. Merry was the one who gave him an idea to say friend in elvish, not Gandalf working it out on his own.

[TheMonsterSkull]

@PhoenixCrystalHatter right on dude

[TheMonsterSkull]

too small :P



[PhoenixCrystalHatter]

I think it was actually good that it was this large... not because it made Eowyn afraid of IT, but because she was terrified that someone, ANYONE, could wield such a massive weapon of utter destruction. It was, in a simple way, a very good way of showing off the Witch King's tremendous power and ability/desire to evoke fear in others.

[donxavier10]

@JustThink00 @JustThink00 The books were FAR better. Never understood why some people make a movie about a book only to eviscerate the story that inspired them to make the book in the first place. I realize the challenges of adapting a book to a film but many of PJ's changes to the story made no sense. Gandalf can't figure how to get into Moria, even though he is this wise and learned wizard, but Frodo comes up with the answer with seeming ease.

[donxavier10]

Typical PJ thinking: pander instead of entertain. Why use subtelty when you can employ the most obvious of visual aids in that given situation...something large and spiky. This illustrates perfeclty what an unimaginative and lazy director PJ is. He has absolutely no head for drama. Eowyn isn't afraid of the ridiculously large mace. She's afraid because she's facing the Lord of the Nazgul, a poweful force of darkness. Guess PJ thought the audience was too stupid to pick up on that.