Viggo Mortensen Livres

This official companion to the second part of Peter Jackson's acclaimed trilogy offers a vibrant, full-color exploration of the characters, locations, and landscapes of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth as portrayed in the film. With a special introduction by Viggo Mortensen, who plays Aragorn, the guide is richly illustrated with over 100 full-color photographs, including exclusive images of Gollum, Treebeard, and the battle of Helm's Deep. It begins by summarizing events from The Fellowship of the Ring and then delves into the distinct journeys of the Fellowship in The Two Towers. Key narratives include Frodo and Sam's perilous trek towards Mordor, accompanied by the elusive Gollum; Merry and Pippin's capture by the Uruk-hai, leading to a fateful meeting with Saruman at Isengard; and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli's pursuit of the kidnapped hobbits across Rohan and into Fangorn Forest. The companion features a newly created map of Rohan and Gondor, along with a detailed battle plan for the climactic events at Helm's Deep, where the Free Peoples of Middle-earth make a courageous stand against Saruman's forces. It also offers an unforgettable tour of the eerie Dead Marshes, the perilous land of Ithilien, the majestic kingdom of Rohan, and the historic stronghold of Helm's Deep, serving as an essential guide to the film.

Viggo Mortensen presents new contexts for old feelings, trusting the formation of sentences that may or may not take me anywhere and the images that may or may not show us something we can see. Configurations of photographs and words captured near and far, shown clearly or hardly at all, in a continuing effort to trail lost memory and hold mirror shards to what we discard.

The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies provides extensive reviews of the Top 100 gangster films of all time, including sidebars like "Reality Check," "Hit and Miss," "I Know That Guy," "Body Count," and other fun and informative features.

This long awaited second publication by the highly recognized film actor and artist/poet, Viggo Mortensen melds his acutely sensitive ability to intertwine words, paintings and photography into one lyrical conceptual landscape. Working like a personal diary, SignLanguage, takes us on a visual journey into the soul of Mortensen's creative forces. His diary-based photographs, taken while filming 'The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Rings' become dream-like landscapes shrouded in mystery and suspense while his multi-layered paintings entwine themselves around stanzas of poetry. The melding of all three forces allows the reader to become acutely aware of the details surrounding the artists existence, a multiple of split-second images burned into the mind of a thousand different places. SignLanguage exquisitely features extensive color and black and white reproductions of both his photographic works and his intensely personal collage based paintings, partly intertwined in an informative essay by international critic and poet, Kevin Power. Special highlights also include unique photographs by Mortensen while on location during the filming of 'The Lord of the The Fellowship of the Ring'.