{"id":169622,"date":"2015-02-03T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/03\/greencarnations-neuxue-okay-i-know-we-always\/"},"modified":"2015-02-03T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T05:13:00","slug":"greencarnations-neuxue-okay-i-know-we-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/03\/greencarnations-neuxue-okay-i-know-we-always\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greencarnations.tumblr.com\/post\/109464094785\/neuxue-okay-i-know-we-always-go-on-about\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">greencarnations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neuxue.tumblr.com\/post\/106916099963\/okay-i-know-we-always-go-on-about-marvels-uncanny\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">neuxue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Okay I know we always go on about Marvel\u2019s uncanny casting ability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if you thought they were the only ones, let me draw your attention to this man:<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/572c37b42863da6f932e2b49fc799427\/tumblr_inline_pemqhgRlm81rw8a11_540.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Viggo Mortensen, aka Aragorn son of Arathorn, <strike>aka Sexiest Ranger in Middle Earth<\/strike><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>would hike, often for more than a day, to remote filming locations, in costume, for the sake of authenticity<\/li>\n<li><b>was the best swordsman Bob Anderson<\/b> (swordsmaster\/instructor for LotR, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc) <b>says he has ever trained<\/b><\/li>\n<li>occasionally writes poetry (more book!canon than film!canon but um hello)<\/li>\n<li><b>does all his own stunts<\/b><\/li>\n<li>lived all over and speaks about 23940209384 languages<\/li>\n<li>you know that scene at the end of Fellowship when he\u2019s fighting the Uruk-hai? And one throws a dagger at him and he hits it away with his sword? Yeah, the guy who threw it was supposed to miss, but accidentally threw it directly at Viggo. W<b>ho just casually Aragorned and hit it away.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They actually cast Aragorn to play Aragorn<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>he also does photography. and if you look at the troll fight scene in the mines of moria, you may notice that they only film him from one side. this is because the other half of his face was all beat up, because he\u2019d gone surfing with orlando bloom and a couple hobbits and got hit in the face with a surfboard. and i think we have all heard the story of how he kicked that orc helmet and broke his toe\u2014which is the take that is in the movie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>greencarnations: neuxue: Okay I know we always go on about Marvel\u2019s uncanny casting ability.\u00a0 But if you thought they were the only ones, let me draw your attention to this man: Viggo Mortensen, aka Aragorn son of Arathorn, aka Sexiest Ranger in Middle Earth would hike, often for more than a day, to remote filming &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/03\/greencarnations-neuxue-okay-i-know-we-always\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5001,672,2234,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}