The trip around The Return Of The King’s sets, shuffled and crammed into every nook that Wellington’s Stone Street Studios can offer, has reached a culmination. Like so much in these films, it’s just so right. Transposed from the end of book two to the beginning of film three for the sake of dramatic thrust, this geo-organic sepulchre is the location for one of the trilogy’s most horrifying and exciting encounters - the mismatched battle between intrepid Hobbit heroes Sam and Frodo and the swollen, impossible hulk of Shelob, a ravenous female spider who stands between the ringbearer and Mordor. "THIS ," OUR TOUR GUIDE ANNOUNCES, "IS SHELOB'S LAIR!" We are gazing into the mouth of a deep-set cavern smothered in lank webbing, sticky and moist to the touch, and scattered with skeletal bric-a-brac that suggests the twisted hulks of Orcs.
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