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Chapter 11 ~ "The Passing of the Elves"
PJ: You just gotta be, bang them up the day before and just goes and try and squeeze them in.
FW: I hate, as it is distributed after lunch.
PJ: This was a sequence that we deleted from the theatrical version of the film and it’s actually a sequence in which a couple of stills, a couple of photographic images have appeared in lots of books and magazines and I’m sure, I’m sure people that were paying attention wondered when they saw the movie just the fact that these shots were not actually seen and Frodo in the tree was, was quite commonly appeared in magazines at the time of the film’s release, and another shot that I saw a lot of in magazines was this one here of Frodo and Sam peering over the log – so here you get this finally, see where these shots came from.
We liked the idea of this little episode from the – it’s sort of from the book, it’s obviously in the book they stop and they talk to this elves that they encountered walking through the Shire, but in the movie we never filmed the conversation, but we did want to at least get the feeling of the sadness of the elves leaving middle earth.
It’s something, that we encounter again, when we reach Rivendell, but we initially didn’t intend for Rivendell to be the first time that we encounter elves. And I liked just this little moment, it’s very slight, but it, it just acknowledges the fact that Hobbits, which are very comfort-loving creatures are now having to to sleep rough. They’re not in their own beds, something that Frodo manages much better than Sam, who really is not used to this sort of lifestyle in the slightest.
These were amongst the very first shots we ever did. We, I think, this particular shot of the boys by the campfire was shot on our third day of shooting.