News Peter Jackson names his favourite scene from the LOTR trilogy

[Miles]

"We were shooting Two Towers and it was introducing Gollum. A key thing with Gollum is that most people know he's Sméagol and he's Gollum, it's like a split. But we hadn't got a scene where you really got the idea of, ‘This guy is two people.’

So we knew that we needed it but we had no time to shoot it. So Fran wrote a scene where Sam and Frodo are asleep, so they can be just lumps in the bed, we don't even have to have Elijah and Sean. We didn't have anyone to direct it, so I said to Fran,

‘You wrote it, you should shoot it.’ So she went in for a day and she wrote and directed a scene which has become pretty famous now."

Stuff

i.stuff.co.nz

 

[PGen98]

That is a fantastic scene, though I always preferred Theoden's speech at Helm's Deep, just so powerful before a battle they know they can't win alone.

(Book version, because it's better)

"Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?"