Lord of the Rings

lol

My childhood copies were the 1977 Ballantines with Tolkien’s art on the covers. I’m overdue for a reread and it seems critically important for me to get that edition now. Then again, I’ve never read the 50th anniversary cleanup text and I probably should.

the cleanup text is where they cut bombadil entirely

Looking fwd to my 50th anniversary cleanup text, ive taken the liberty of preparing extensive notes of suggested excisions, ive mentioned the main one a few times on other threads iirc

cleanup ilx: no mark s

If you removed all the nomarks......

Excited for VG. Let us know how it's going.

Why deems this is EXACTLY what you want to do, right now, at this historical moment in the world, I know.

For the first time in IMAX, experience the magic of Middle-Earth. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is making its debut on the BIG screen. Remastered by Peter Jackson in stunning 4K, experience the epic in IMAX theatres Feb 5. Reserve your seat: https://t.co/LBzdw8tML0 pic.twitter.com/Q9wexUkRAx

— IMAX (@IMAX) February 3, 2021

https://t.co/UaxLXY3Uq3 pic.twitter.com/x1X3XZU0XL

— karen han (@karenyhan) February 3, 2021

lol the replies on that are great too

me reuniting with my homies who died watching lotr pic.twitter.com/0Yqqnt7g3R

— tc (@chillmage) February 3, 2021

I'm not clear about the "first time in IMAX" claim. What was I watching the first time around when I saw the trilogy at an IMAX?

it is a mystery

It's the remastering in 4K being referred to (the Hobbit films were filmed directly in 4K, by comparison).

Wasnt godwin a minor elf

No wtf, darwin its the darwin award

Can we go back

I’ve been finding this map very helpful in locating myself in the books: http://lotrproject.com/map

whoa that is cool af

also I finished Two Towers :D
On to Return of the King, and finally joining the Appendices (Nerd) Club™️

Welcome welcome

I was just playing around with that map site earlier today.

The Emyn Muil always really intrigued me. I think that's where I'd set up my hermit hut.

"R. Baranduin (Brandywine)"

^^ encapsulates so much about Tolkien's sensibilities

Gimli waxing poetic for a page and a half about the beauty of the caverns at Hem’s Deep. *chef’s kiss*

Theoden is the Puddleglum of LOTR. On the heels of victory at Helm’s Deep and on finding that his losses on the plain of battle were fewer than he had imagined AND that Edoras was defended, he still has time to mope “Well, I probably won’t get to enjoy it long. Prolly gonna die soon.”

lmao true

meanwhile this is so stupid i love it

MY FRIEND JUST SEND ME THIS WTF HAHAHA pic.twitter.com/GoamRyL2tV

— Kayjii (@kayjii) February 2, 2021

Very stupid, but I am loling.

upper-level arda map-nerd lore

1: https://i.imgur.com/LqFv5.jpg

2: https://www.theonering.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/first_age_of_arda.gif

lol sorry the first jpg is made of pure neutronium apparently

that top map certainly looks a lot like europe, asia, and the middle east

Bottom map not v like africa/gulf

?

Never got too far into maplore, wary of finding out that it was all v literal to real world ppl/places which imo starts to spoil things

yeah in the bottom map, middle earth etc. don't look as much like eurasia, but harad and co. look a lot like africa and the middle east

First map was the Iron Crown role-playing map, second is the god Fonstad working off Tolkien’s sketch.

Im feeling free to disregard irl geography anyways numenoreans are the irish this is canon

big if true (and mostly looking bad for the irish) (deems is aragorn, he's fine)

wasn't tolk imagining arda as our own earth in its infancy? (an early title for the silmarillion was LOL FVCK GONDWANALAND)

Faramir tbh and youd need to know my older brother to see it

<3

A typo on the map site had me confused, where the mountains to the north of Mirkwood were written Ered Mithrim rather than Mithrin, so I briefly thought they were the same as the Mithrim in old Beleriand. But no, it's like I remember, the mountains to the east of everything in the Silmarillion are the mountains to the west of everything in The Hobbit / LOTR, like tearing off a fresh sheet of baking paper.

The working-class self-interest of the Orcs, chattering about rumours of what the powers are doing, resenting the Nazgul for being “His favourites these days”, yearning to be free of the yoke & just find a nice spot where there’s plenty of loot nearby.

^ I’m guessing you’ve read The Last Ringbearer?

Never heard of it til now, thanks!

I’ve often wondered what “the other side of the story” is in LOTR (in life, the bad guys don’t see themselves as bad guys), but my imagination is limited & I need stories fed to me before I can see the possibilities.

But I like how Tolkien feeds us enough of a glimpse into the inner life of Orcs, despite being clearly unsympathetic to them, to get a little wedge in.

Orcs are brought into this world as cockney poor and leave it killed by pure blood royalists

tbf, plenty of orcs are killed by orc on orc violence

This is all very well timed for our orc episode on the podcast, due to drop on Monday.

Was there talk about Bored of The Rings? Crtl F = 0. I read it as a teenager lol. No idea if it stands up to more, ahem, mature tastes.

It didn’t even stand up to immature tastes, but ....

Tom Bombadil chanting “Clean! Clean! Clean for Gene!” Always stuck in my head

Didn't they call Bilbo Dildo? Ivy League minds at work.

Dildo Bugger and his nephew Frito.

Nothing but the lowest of brows!