Holiday Movies 2003

EW gets the secrets of ''LOTR'' sets | 152646__lotr_l
A STUNNING SEAT OF POWER The Hennahs wanted to evoke the grandeur of ancient Greece in the Minas Tirith throne room
The Hennahs' biggest challenge in constructing the Minas Tirith throne room was right at their feet. Literally. It took 12 painters a month to make the 11,250-square-foot floor look like intricately patterned marble. The classical influences didn't stop there. ''One of the things we decided early on was that Minas Tirith would have a European feel,'' Dan says of the Corinthian columns and Moorish arches. Artists crafted the eight-foot polystyrene sculptures of the fallen kings of Minas Tirith to evoke ancient Greece and lend ''a grandeur'' to the room, he adds. ''It's about giving the city a formality and a history that people can relate to.''

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