August 21, 2003

To Matthew - Also: RotK Trailer and Re: Melkor
Bob Praz

Good to be back (I have been gone for a few days, so I appologize if this answer comes a little late). I see that Matthew has finally given an answer to my "name dilemma", but now I find I cannot re-register under the same username or the same e-mail address to correct this problem, and I suppose I can't delete my old account in any way. Therefore, sorry to bother you with this again, Matthew, but if you could do as you did with Jarrickon Falcon and change my nickname/handle to "Bob Praz", it would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise I will do as I can to live with "Bob" as too simple a name. Thank you anyhow for your help.

For the rest of you, I think I may have said this before, but who knows and who cares. THERE WILL BE NO TEASER TRAILER FOR ROTK THIS YEAR. Peter Jackson said that the only trailer appearing this year will be a FINAL TRAILER that should come out in September. (He said this in an LOTR Magazine interview, in case you're wondering where I got the information.)

And Melkor, yes that's what I meant. In the book Aragorn carries Anduril the whole time, even before he comes to Rivendell he carries the broken hilt. In the movies, they decided to allow Aragorn's character to develop more throughout the journey, and thus his whole destiny of becoming king evolves before our very eyes, instead of being already set and pre-determined, as it is in the books. So yes, if you go to any site selling swords from LotR, you should find that there is Narsil, as well as a "Strider's Sword", which is the sword we have seen him carry in the movies so far.