Re: LOTR credit line

Steg Belsky wrote at 2003-12-27 18:41:42 (+0200)
 > On Saturday, December 27, 2003, at 07:10  AM, Ph. D. wrote:
 > > I just saw the Return of the King tonight. Near the end
 > > of the credits, there is a line in another language. It
 > > was only on for a few seconds, and I wasn't expecting
 > > it, so I don't remember much of it. It was in Latin script,
 > > and some of the vowels had macrons over them.
 > > Anyone else catch this? I suppose we'll have to wait
 > > for the movie to come out on tape or DVD to see it
 > > long enough to figure out what it says.
 > > --Ph. D.
 >
 > I don't remember seeing it, but if it had macrons on some of the
 > vowels, my guess would be Ma(<-insert macron here)ori, since the movies
 > were filmed in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
 >

I saw it today, and stayed to look out for this thing.  It certainly
looked like Maori to me (not that I have much experience with that
language).  It begins something like "Me mehara tātou..." (ā =
a-macron).  I couldn't transcribe any more, and even what I did get
may contain errors.