[ SECRET POST #4451 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4451 ⌋

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[fscom]

04. https://i.imgur.com/pp5Byzw.png

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

Alas, it doesn't feel remotely real to me. I grew up in that area of the Midlands, about five miles from where Tolkien did, and it's just wrong. For a start, why is the garden such a mess? Plus that path would be really dangerous in rain or snow.

[(Anonymous)]

The garden is a mess because every garden should be at least a little bit of a mess

That's a fact

[(Anonymous)]

:-)

[(Anonymous)]

Do hobbits seem like a people who'd have super tidy, organized gardens? I never thought of them like that myself. As for the path... does the Shire get much snow and ice? I assumed tough, hairy feet might have a decent amount of traction. :)

[chamonix]

I also grew up in Staffordshire and Shropshire and while I think the Shire still didn't look as 'established' as it should, I honestly don't know how they could have done any more. They left the set to grow in for a year. I also noticed a lot of UK common plants like geranium, nasturtium and aubrietia which seemed like a super in-depth research. What partridge you feel was most wrong? Interested to know.

[philstar22]

I have to think of the movies as a separate thing from the books. Because I fell in love with the movies first, and they really are beautiful. But they don't actually look anything like the sites in the books. So I don't picture movie things when I read the books. And yet, I still think the movie sites are beautiful and still enjoy them.

It's complicated.

[(Anonymous)]

For some reason I thought that these structures in particular were replicated/inspired by a real life choice of ancient living? And that was why they translated to film so well? I'm probably completely wrong though.

[analise]

I've been there in person. Except for the fact that only like two of the doors open and there's only a couple of feet of empty space behind them, it really does feel to me like a real place real (Hobbits) people might live.

EDIT: So, you know, I think it was literally the most "real" since it's a physical space whereas pretty much every other set (right?) was on like a soundstage or at least partly/mostly CG?

[ayebydan]

I got the opposite feel. I thought they would have more open sets there and instead it was grumpy gardeners going about and a shop I wasn't on board with.

[(Anonymous)]

Awww. I loved Hobbiton, but nothing beats the emotional impact Rivendell had on me. I want to live in that place.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... hobbits fundamentally are warm, earth-bound people. Much of what we saw was at their "eye-level", so to speak. It makes sense, from a filmmaking perspective, that we'd see more warmth and detail up close. The other places were hand built and not all CGI, though. They were sets and props all with art direction. None of them are as warm as the hobbit houses and gardens. Maybe some of the Rohan architecture (Edoras specifically) comes close. The Rohirrim seem like a much warmer people with their halls and great fires, mead and roasts on a spit. Gondor is white tower and cobblestone; marble and granite.

I think they don't receive quite as much attention to detail because our protagonist is not a human. It's a hobbit. We need to identify with Frodo (and Bilbo) more than anyone else, despite that there is an ensemble of characters. I don't see these things you've mentioned as a lack of care, but rather filmmaking choices.