Edoras | LOTR's Most Insane Location

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The making of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is full of amazing stories. Going behind the scenes of LOTR in the LOTR DVD appendices is like exploring Smaug’s hoarde of treasure. For me, one of the best LOTR behind the scenes stories is that of Edoras – the capital of Rohan – a massive set that was built for real.

Edoras was built on Mount Sunday in the South Island of New Zealand over a gruelling eleven months. It was one of the most remote and difficult LOTR locations, but also one of the favourite of the cast and crew. This LOTR video essay explores how they built Edoras, and more importantly why building it in this location was so important to properly translating Tolkien’s vision on film.

▶️ If you want to see more Lord of the Rings behind the scenes stories like this, then check out my mini-documentary on how they built the Hobbiton set for real -    • The Scouting of the Shire: How HOBBIT...  

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SOURCES

Lord of the Rings Extended Edition DVD appendices and LOTR behind the scenes footage: (Origins of Middle-earth / Cameras in Middle-earth / Designing Middle-earth / New Zealand as Middle-earth / Home of the Horse Lords)

Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook, by Ian Brodie

Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth, by Ian Nathan

Original drone footage (used with permission):    • Lord of the Rings - Rohan Shooting Lo...  
© Behind the Door - 2019