Hello and welcome back to the third episode of season five of what went wrong.

But if you listened to the first two when they came out, this is like sort of the second

week. We're back. Anyway, it doesn't matter. We're excited. We are back for the conclusion

of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Chris is so excited. Those are some middle earthian

rap horns. You might not have known about them, but they are special horns of gondor

are calling us the horns of gondor. I can't wait. Welcome back to part three of our three

part coverage of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. Khaledar, return to the king,

a little long, too many endings, but wonderful nonetheless. Again, if you haven't listened

to parts one and two, check it out. Last we saw our heroes. They had just shown the world

a taste of middle earths at can and it knocks their fork and socks off literally all the

socks were off like hobbits. They screened 26 minutes of the films, including a 15 minute

extended sequence, the cave troll fight from Moria for a very select audience of taste

makers and journalists at the can film festival in May of 2001. New lines and through a two

million dollar party that was bonkers. Listen to our second episode to learn more about

that and then they quickly went into a publicity blackout in order to generate maximum hype

for the release of fellowship of the ring in December of 2001. Of course, our heroes had

a lot of work to get done specifically figuring out how to bring golem to life for a modern

audience. Quick reminder, everybody out there, please go pick up a copy of Ian Nathan's anything

you can imagine Peter Jackson in the making of middle earth. This has been my primary resource

for these episodes. It's really an incredible book, 500 remarkably well researched pages

on the making of these films along with, of course, Andy circuses book on golem golem,

how we made movie magic, also a really fun read. Very personal, a lot about him and his

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