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"When winter comes, and singing ends; when darkness falls at last; When broken is the barren bough, and light and labour past; I'll look for thee, and wait for thee, until we meet again: Together we will take the road beneath the bitter rain! Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest." ~From The Ent and Ent-wife.
"It is said that the skill of the Dwarves is in their hands rather than in their tongues, yet that is not true of Gimli." ~Galadriel.
John Rhys-Davies originally wanted
to play Denethor, Boromir's father, so that he could be in the movie with
a smaller role. But he soon realized the importance of his
"If I was to use 'actor talk' (which
I love), I'd say: "Well you see, I had to find the Dwarf in me! And,
actually, I didn't really have to delve that deep! Dwarves take themselves
terribly seriously, they are desperately politically-incorrect and quite
forthright in saying whatever's on their mind whether they should or not.
(laughs) And I happily confess that I had no difficulty whatsoever
in finding any of those traits in myself! Of course, Gimli is a wonderful
character! Suspicious, paranoid, quick to quarrel; yet he shows
unquestioned loyalty to Aragorn, and his protectiveness toward the little
hobbits is
After the War of the Ring, Gimli was named Elf-friend due to his bond with Legolas and his reverence towards Galadriel. He brought some of the Dwarf-folk of Erebor to the south and became Lord of the Glittering Caves. They did many great works for the people of Rohan and Gondor, such as forging gates made of mithril and steel to replace the broken gates of Minas Tirith.
It is said that after Aragorn passed away, Legolas and
Gimli also sailed across the sea to Valinor where Gimli could remain with
his greatest friend and also see Galadriel once
again. Rhys-Davies also lends his voice for the character, Treebeard in The Two Towers. Before he saw the finished character, he said with a smile, "It's partly a machine, a mechanical thing. It's partly CG. And it's basically my voice. Let me put it this way: If it's a success, it's entirely me. And if it's a failure, blame Peter Jackson." On Treebeard's relationship with Merry and Pippin, "I don't think that Treebeard would have done anything of great value if he hadn't met them. He needed that connection. And I also don't think Merry and Pippin would have grown into these people that could see a wider scope of the world if it wasn't for Treebeard saying to them, 'At the moment evil will rule the world. But then at some point, good will come back and rule the world.' And that's a good thing for the hobbits to hear." The Official John Rhys-Davies Homepage "Nobody tosses a Dwarf!"
"Ere iron was found or tree was hewn, When young was mountain under moon; Ere ring was made, or wrought was woe, It walked the forests long ago." ~Gandalf's Riddle of the Ents.
It's said that Tolkien had an interest
in stories where trees played an important role. An example is
Macbeth where Macbeth is told by a ghost that he will not be defeated
unless a certain forest travels to fight him. Apparently Tolkien was
disappointed that a real
"Tolkien described Treebeard as one of the oldest living beings on Middle-earth and, as such, he takes his time to think and speak - he has a great many memories but a methodical, unhurried central nervous-processor with which to access them. Then there's his voice, which Tolkien describes as sounding like a deep wood-wind instrument. Now, when you think of 'old' and 'deep', you think of 'slow', but we're working with film and the one thing we really can't afford to be is ponderous. Yes, I can see fifty ways of making it work filmically, but making it work so as to be true to the book is a nightmare of difficulty!" ~John Rhys-Davies. It's been said that Treebeard's speaking style is a joke as it mimics the voice of Tolkien's friend C. S. Lewis, the author of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Treebeard was written to be 14 feet tall. The name Ent (also known as Onodrim in Rohan) comes from the Old English word 'enta' for 'giant.'
"To Isengard! Though Isendgard be ringed and barred with doors of stone; Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone, We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door; For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars - we go to war! To land of gloom with tramp of doom, with roll of drum, we come, we come; To Isengard with doom we come! With doom we come, with doom we come!" ~The Ents Marching Song.
"Eldest of all, the elf-children Dwarf the deliver, dark are his houses Ent the earthborn, old as mountains Man the mortal, master of horses." ~Treebeard.
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John Rhys-Davies.
character, Gimli, son of Gloin. "Gimli is a short fellow,
so it was really very interesting. I've never played a part before
where I had to look up all the time I was acting!" ~Rhys-Davies,
who is taller than most of the cast. Unfortunately, he developed
an allergic reaction to his makeup. Gimli's armor weighed about
30kg (66lb).
endearing. Above all, there is his fearlessness in
the face of overwhelming odds, so that even when confronted with certain
death, he will always turn and fight!"
forest did not fight Macbeth
and "longed to devise a setting in which trees might really march to war."
(From The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien).
