From Evi

Curious and adventurous person that I am, I took up the task to roam the Munich Movie Fair on Saturday. So here are some things that I've found, in no particular order:

First the Cinefex magazine, no 89 from April 2002, with Sam and the cave troll on the cover. It has 141 pages, with 61 pages dedicated to FOTR, and the rest divided between ads and stories about "The Time Machine" and "Black Hawk Down" (no pix of Orlando). It follows the story of FOTR and explains the special effects, the makeup and some secrets along the way. It has a lot of photos from the production, but no particular ones of Sean or Orlando, or Viggo for that matter :-((. My fav quote from the story however reveals some secrets of Legolas, and what a disappointment to my attempts on archery (and to the fans of Legolas):

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Prior to the start of filming, and prior to the casting of Orlando Bloom as Legolas, Peter Jackson and Randy Cook had discussed how the elf warrior's bowmanship might be best achieved, had decided to create all-digital arrows, with the actor simply miming the action. "Even Errol Flynn had experienced difficulty in smoothly 'nocking' his arrows - which is what it's called when you put the notch thing on to the string thing", remarked Cook. "So Peter and I figured that if Errol Flynn couldn't do it, whoever wound up playing Legolas wouldn't be able to do it, either. So we decided pretty early on to give it some digital help and have the actor just pantomiming the action, without really shooting the arrows. He'd just reach for an invisible arrow, pull the string back, snap it and go for the next one. ..." -- Cinefex
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How fitting, that a reprint of 1938's "Ye Sylvan Archer" was in my mail that day in which Howard Hill, field archer de luxe and archery teacher of Errol Flynn writes about the difficulties of making Errol Flynn as Robin Hood in the 1938 movie "The Adventures Of Robin Hood" (my fav movie of all time, and the reason I took up a bow and arrows in the first place, btw) look like a successful archer.

Next finding at another stall was the Japanese souvenir programme. At least I think that it is such, because my knowledge of the Japanese language it very limited. It has some rarely seen photos, the best one being an image of the dirt resistant Legolas - covered with mud and looking very desperate So if you come across them as well, you might consider checking the magazine and the programme yourself. Don't know if these infos are helpful for you, but I thought I'd give them a try. The rest of my findings had only to do with either Sean Bean or Boromir.