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Still my favorite story from the Lord of the Rings set: Viggo Mortensen bonded so much with the horse he rode in the movies that after filming was over he bought it from its owner. If that doesn’t warm your heart I don’t know what could.

don’t forget that he also bought arwen’s horse for her stunt rider when she couldn’t afford it awww

#also don’t forget that for the rohirrim they put a call out for locals #bring a horse show us you can ride it and get a part in the battle scenes #and one women went out roped a wild horse and rode for a few days to set #and got to be a rider of rohan

also sort of relevant viggo also bought the horse that costarred with him in the movie hidalgo and subsequently took the horse (tj) with him to the red carpet premier. 

Also most of the Riders of Rohan are actually women because when they put out that call mostly women showed up with their horses and the costume team just stuck beards on them.

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So you’re saying the entire Rohan army could have killed the Witch-King of Angmar.

Witch King: No living man can kill me!

several thousand riders of Rohan: *rip their fake beards off*

Witch King: Oh fuck…

*screeches* We aRE NO MEN

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#IT’S REAL AND LOOKS TINY BECAUSE OF THE SHORT FOCAL LENGTH

Specifically, I believe it looks tiny because of a combination of the short focal length, low framerate and being sped up.

I find it really fascinating that this works, because this is not playing on anything about the human visual system in itself as far as I can tell – it’s just calling on our prior experiences seeing photos and videos of tiny things in stop-motion. I’ve never actually, consciously noticed that photos of tiny things have a tighter focus with more pronounced blurring, and I couldn’t immediately tell at all that that had anything to do with making these gifs look small, but my brain knows because of decades’ worth of photographs that this is what photos of small things look like, and thus infers that these objects must be small.

Similarly, crude stop-motion animation of miniatures tends to have a low framerate, so the low framerate means it’s probably small. Small things generally move faster than big things, so something like an airplane on a runway moving that fast must be a miniature. Just the brain, making deductions from past experiences. This is neat. I wonder if small children, or people from cultures less exposed to photography, would just fail to get the miniature feeling at all.