CORONATION DRESS: QUOTES & INTERVIEWS

Pictures are below the interview texts

Interview with Ngila Dickson in "Wedding Dresses" #26, Summer 2004

Q: As Arwen becoming queen and marrying Aragorn, how did you translate that through clothes and accessories? Why did you pick green as the bridal gown color?"

"Fran Walsh asked for green because it had been very emblematic of the elves, and I was horrified. It wasn't a color that particularly suited Liv, unless it is a very strong vibrant green. We conducted many experiments in the dye house, and finally I found that color: soft and luminous at the same time. Liv just glowed in it."

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Other outfits required more subtlety, such as the dress worn by Arwen, played by Liv Tyler, when her husband Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) is crowned king in "Return of the King".

The biggest challenge, said Dickson, was creating the "the softness and the luminosity that we wanted for that moment."

"I still wanted it to be almost a bridal gown at the same time it was a coronation gown," she said, describing the long dye process to find the "right green."
"I knew that this character should come from this crown and [envisioned] a huge butterfly that came out from behind her head. And then it slowly came down into something more refined, but the butterfly image is still there at the back."

Pictures

...from the RotK SEE
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The dress


From the design galleries

Also good for generic elves (group of elves to the right and two in the front left)

Also good for elves (hairstyles) and Gondorian noble ladies' dresses

The last picture shows the silk mousseline for the undersleeve in close up!
Second last is good for some details on Elrond, esp. hairstyle.

Note here the cheap fabric that is peaking out on the right side


The last one shows an interesting elven flag design in the upper left corner

The butterfly crown

From the design galleries

Last two show also Legolas' circlet very good

The Coronation Banner

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