John Rhys-Davies could have been a basketball player, but he ended up becoming Gimli
Not everyone knows this, but John Rhys-Davies, best known as the Gimli of The Lord of the rings, has another role in the saga. And, in fact, she comes out so much in The two Towers like in The return of the King: the actor provides the voice of Treebeard, the ent. In fact, to make their sound perfect and totally differentiated, what they did was build a two-meter wooden box, attach speakers to it so that they bounce inside and emit the actor’s voice from the side. When he reached the other, he had a resonance of the wood that gave it a unique touch. When Hollywood still didn’t use computers for everything!
Gimli the giant
Although he played a dwarf, the truth is that Rhys-Davies was the biggest of the entire cast of The Lord of the rings: He is 1.85 meters tall, although you would never say it seeing how he appears on the tape. And it is that Peter Jackson He used all kinds of camera tricks to always make him look flat.
For example, he had him roll in the background while his companions were in the foreground, he had him get into ditches, the rest of the actors were on platforms, and he even had doubles who made things easier. However, everything is said, Rhys-Davies doesn’t have the best memories of the set because, to make him a dwarf, they had to disfigure him, and the makeup practically removed the skin around his eyes.
Over time, Davies has fallen in love again The Fellowship of the Ring and the rest of the films in the trilogy, and is even part of an initiative that aims to buy JRR Tolkien’s house and use it as a museum for fans of his books. Tall, majestic, good people: You’d never guess Gimli was going to be like this in real life.
