The response
Unedited (except to remove name; person was who I thought it was) is this email response:
Dorothea –
Actually, I am neither pompous, nor a jerk, but merely someone who wanted for the film to be the best it could. The notion that I would spend hours (in between takes?) double-checking the runes on the set is ludicrous.
The “joke” was not a joke at all. You can see one of the inscriptions inquestion at: http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_news.htm#inane.
Where do you get off using words like “dishonest”? When did I ever say anyone was dishonest? Of course everyone at Weta was hard-working. Does that mean that things can’t get out of control every now and then? They were doing their job and I was doing mine.
I will resist the urge to answer you in the same register as your accusations. This sort of inflamatory rhetoric is counter-productive and way too prevalent in our community. Chill.