November 7, 2003



You know the opening scene to The Two Towers, when Gandalf and the Balrog are falling down the deep chasm? Picture that, only it was Isildur & Sauron instead of Gandalf & Balrog. And they landed, not in a lake, but in sort of sewer-like dungeon, where Isildur was Sauron's slave, and had to get on his hands & knees scrup the floors with brushes & a bucket of soapy water. Slave style.

And a little later, I was at the set for Minas Tirith, and they were auditioning for extras in the battle scenes. I first tried out for an archer on Tirith's walls, but I didn't know how to fire a bow, so someone gave me a cheap, really small plastic bow with suction-cup arrows to practice with. But eventually I decided I wanted to be in the calvary (ergo the Riders of Rohan), but the dream phased out into some convention like RingCon, but outdoors, and I don't remember what happened. But then it phased back, and they were already filming the battle scenes, so I had missed my chance to get it. I remember they were filming the calvary (Riders), and I realized I don't even own or know how to ride a horse, so I had no chance. Oh, and Sunny Jim (a woman in my local LotR group) in her Dernhelm outfit was one of the Riders actually being filmed.

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