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Saruman
March 19th,2003, 10:59 PM
I just received 'The Art of the Two Towers' today, and there are many inspoirational sketches of the balrog when it fell into the water and became 'a creature of slime'.
Is there any possibility that this scene may appear in the extended DVD?
Celebrían
March 19th,2003, 11:21 PM
I can't begin to picture how that would be portrayed! :o Interesting........I guess we'll have wait and see.....
Rumil
March 20th,2003, 11:05 PM
That would be fantastic .... I hope that it's true.
Celebrían
March 21st,2003, 12:15 AM
It would be really amazing. Oh! for November!
Steve the Great
March 21st,2003, 10:11 AM
It would be definitly great, but there're a lots of extra sequences which are not in the movie, so I don't realy think that it will be on the extended DVD :(
Winyaél Greenleaf
March 21st,2003, 10:13 AM
That's intriguing! Can't wait for ttt ext!!!
TheRingBearer
March 21st,2003, 08:15 PM
Wow that would be cool. Be a lot different from fotr balrog
Orkybash
March 21st,2003, 08:18 PM
TTT Ext. keeps sounding better and better! :thumbs:

Anyone else walk out of TTT thinking "OK, now that I've seen PART of the movie..." :)
Celebrían
March 21st,2003, 08:51 PM
Yeah, I'm eagerly awaiting Act III. :thumbs:
Saruman
March 22nd,2003, 11:50 AM
Links to the balrog sketches, by:
Sourisak Chanpaseuth (http://www.christopherleeweb.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=378459)
Johnny Brough (http://www.christopherleeweb.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=378460)
Daniel Falconer (http://www.christopherleeweb.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=378461)
Christian Rivers (http://www.christopherleeweb.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=378463)
HobbitFriend
March 23rd,2003, 12:01 AM
But wait.... I don't think they can have that scene in there, because doesn't that happen after the Balrog falls into the water?? And don't they show Gandalf and the Balrog after that incident on the top of the Mountain when Gandalf "smote his ruin on the mountainside" ? and he didn't look slimy to me :huh: (i could be totally wrong though......)
Celebrían
March 23rd,2003, 03:46 AM
hmm...good observation
Saruman
March 23rd,2003, 10:31 AM
That's my point. It may be a new scene, at least I hope so.
HobbitFriend
March 23rd,2003, 05:50 PM
hmm... maybe. :huh: we'll have to wait and see ;)
Orkybash
March 23rd,2003, 06:35 PM
Originally posted by HobbitFriend
But wait.... I don't think they can have that scene in there, because doesn't that happen after the Balrog falls into the water?? And don't they show Gandalf and the Balrog after that incident on the top of the Mountain when Gandalf "smote his ruin on the mountainside" ? and he didn't look slimy to me :huh: (i could be totally wrong though......)

If you read that passage from the book again, I believe it says that the Balrog reignites once he goes out into the open air on top of the peak. So what they showed in the movie would be perfectly in keeping with the books even if he does become a creature of slime!
HobbitFriend
March 23rd,2003, 06:51 PM
oh cool! so it may be possible then :thumbs:
Celebrían
March 24th,2003, 11:43 PM
Ha! Silly me! I had forgotten about that! Yes, I guess it's possible, then......
HobbitFriend
March 25th,2003, 01:53 AM
I had also forgotten about that Celebrian ;) no worries....
Celebrían
March 25th,2003, 03:00 AM
Well, that's not the only thing that I have forgotten about, although I must say that the "balrog" issue was not as serious as me forgetting that I had twin sons! :grin: