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Lord of the Rings, positive, behind the scenes [1]
I'm watching some behind the scenes stuff about the lord of the rings movies, and holy heck they did so much more than I thought they did.
They got *actual armor smiths and a sword smith* to smith the armor and swords, in forges they had in their workshop.
They had 2 people who spent the entire 3 years just sitting in a room making chainmail links (and they interviewed one of them and he was like "this is the most amazing thing I've ever done")
Lord of the Rings, positive, behind the scenes [2]
Also: the chainmail loops were made from an industrial hose, which was light and made of plastic, but it looked like real metal, which meant the actors could wear the chainmail without it being super heavy.
Also also: every sword was made 4 times - once as a real sword, then once as a "scale sword", for doing the whole "hobbits are small" thing, then again as a rubber safety sword, then again as a liteweight sword for the fast action scenes.