"You Are Tracking The Footsteps Of Two Young Hobbits"

Remember that scene in The Two Towers? Did any of you get the idea that the above phrase was spoken by Saruman (Christopher Lee) and not Gandalf (Ian McKellen).

Maybe I’m really late catching on, but I thought it was a device to make us think that was gonna be Saruman they were going to encounter, because that was what Pippin and Merry thought when Treebeard toook them to see “the White Wizard”.

Like I said, I’m a little “slow on the uptake” sometimes, but I really thought it was Saruman until the voice softened.

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Q

I noticed that to, Quasimodem. I’m positive that the voice started out as Christopher Lee’s and morphed into Ian McKellen’s, and that this was an intentional device by the director to help us think at first that it might indeed be Saruman - just like the three hunters were thinking.

::taps nose:: You got it. Fooling us into thinking they were gonna be taken to Saruman.

Reading the title of this thread made me think of a nature show where someone is following animals with a camera and whispering to it so as they don’t notice they are being followed…

Man, y’all answered fast. Oh well, I sometimes have this talent of pointing out the obvious. :smiley: It goes with my naivete, I suppose.

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'Q

And what I obviously forgot to mention is that three three hunters attacked as if it were Saruman!

Jeez Quasi! Way to pay attention to details! :wink:

Q

“You Are Tracking The Footsteps Of Two Young Hobbits” …

You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

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Sorry couldnt resist…

I think you’re right puglvr, and I noticed that too.

I think Jackson did this well, because it does mirror the place in the book, where he is identified as “the white wizard” first, and the three (Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli) do begin to attack, thinking it is Saruman. In fact, when they camped by the remains of the orcs (coming to it after the Riders of Rohan had attacked and destroyed the orc group), one of them did spot an old man in white outside their camp – which they presumed was Saruman spying on them. (And I think in the book later it is insinuated that this was indeed Saruman, outside their camp).

[David Attenborough] You’re in the wilds of Fangorn, and you’re tracking the footsteps of two young hobbits . . . through a forest which has never before been traversed by humans, populated by ugly, shaggy trees, blah blah blah . . . [/David Attenborough]

::Attenborough suddenly is squashed flat by a huge ent foot::

That was my first thought when I saw the thread title, too. The Zork games never had a “track” command, but I wish they had.

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You see a tree before you.

>climb

You are in the tree.

> jump out of tree

I don’t see a tree here.

All right, you little buggers! :smiley:

Quasi

>FK YOU YOU FKING F**K!

I don’t see a fcking fk here…

Huh?

Where did that come from?

Is everybody in the thread okay? :smiley:

Q

BTW, I was really disappointed with the Ents; I thought they were too Disney.

I think all the forces of normal nice goodness are getting short shrift in the film, Merry, Pippin and the Ents.

Of course, who care about normal goodness with those Elves around …

But the confusion was deliberate, and fairly well done.

What, never played “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, Quasi?

Guess not, QtM. I read the books, but I didn’t remember that particular quote. To quote Shel Silverstein " I was stoned and I missed it!" (Ah reckon!) :smiley:

My college stuff was Günther Grass, Dostoyevski (or however you spell that) and Poe. Also did Shiller and that “N” guy who wrote about the abyss also looking into your ass! I think he may have produced or written a song or two for The Stones! :wink:

Sorry if I misread something, but all those F’s coming out of “nowhere” in my thread just made me a little tachycardic!
Also sorry if I overreacted, Y’all! Maybe I need to get my young friend yujin to teach me some modern lit! (Preferably not really lit, okay? :smiley:
Good to see ya again, QtM! You too, yujin!

Q

It’s not a quote from the book, it’s just how the seminal computer game of the same name functioned. Quite new and exciting at the time. I remember playing it in 1986…