Lord of the Rings

The most recent of the Eruditorum posts makes me think that's probably a good thing...

I finally watched the “Tolkien Edit” of the Hobbit movies, a fan edit that chops the trilogy down into one 4-1/2 hour movie.

It’s decently watchable, if not actually anything like good. About on a par with most of the Marvel movies I’ve seen (which is not high praise). But if you take it as canon, at least it doesn’t taint & stain the original LOTR trilogy the way the theatrically released Hobbit movies did.

Whoever put that together is kind of a hero.

area fan

There are a couple of those Hobbit edits floating around -- I have two, plus a separate one that's just the Dol Guldur arc. One of those edits did a pretty great job of reducing it down to three hours that followed as closely to the original text as allowed and basically did what I felt could have been done at the start, just tell the story in one film. From the moment they announced it as two films I had my doubts and we all knew what happened after that.

yeah, i’d prefer a single hobbit movie and a dedicated dol guldur movie

.. but then if LoTR movies came out now in the MCU age we’d also get a dedicated Tom Bombadil movie, so..

i want to see Lord of the Rings: Paradise, where they all get drunk on the beach and flirt in the pool

featuring tom bombadil, i mean

Tom Bombadil: Love and Thunder

xxp pretty sure that’s all what’s going on in the Undying Lands, thus why they’re in such a hurry to go sail there at the end

The Lord of the Rings 2: The Scouring of the Shire Part 1

: Genesis

Directors final cut

The Two Towers 2: Electric Boogaloo

by 2050, reflecting the continuing evolution of the IP and a need to make clear to younger fans why they should bother watching them, the original Jackson series will have been rebranded "The Scouring of the Shire: Origins"

Lord of the Rings: The Snyder Cut

Its the ewok crossover will really tear it

The Gondolorian

.. a series about Aragorn’s life as a Strider would probably rock actually

a videogame as well

the thing that people don't yet know about aragorn/Strider is that he often travels via a chain that he throws diagonally up and forward, swinging across any obstacle like tarzan or harry pitfall over the alligators

Isn’t that Bionic Commando!?

Nope, it’s my idea!

Listen, I didn’t have a sega genesis!!

i think it should be a Mega Man clone called Dúne Dain.

shit why didn't I go with Dúna Dan

And here I thought you were making a deep-cut reference to actual NES game Strider.

2 towers 2 furious

I know that once you start on the LOTR tumblrs you can spend your life there - but this is lovely

https://prismatic-bell.tumblr.com/post/189586763336/ekjohnston-kyraneko-kittyknowsthings

i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.

english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.

(and other less couth things)

That's pretty cool, will have to share that.

Another team of Tolkien podcasters -- more well-known than us! -- bagged a pretty good interview with Ralph Bakshi about his film version

https://luke-shelton.com/2021/05/28/tep-32-ralph-bakshi/

Anyway as for our own podcast, latest episode is live!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/27

Meanwhile, not inaccurate

Canonically, the Lord of the Rings is a memoir by hobbits, which has several detailed descriptions of meals throughout, so maybe the whole saga is just one of those recipe blogs where they have to tell you a whole epic story before getting to the food.

— Sean Kelly (@StorySlug) June 3, 2021

lol otm

this applies a lot to A Song of Ice and Fire (and gets worse with each book with multi page descriptions of various meals)

i just purchased the first wheel of time book. i guess i will soon be learning about the cuisine of the time world

Eat, Love, Destroy The Ring

So, yes, news and a half here:

https://deadline.com/2021/06/lord-of-the-rings-anime-film-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-new-line-1234773024/

A lot to chew over in terms of what this means vis-a-vis future projects, the exact rights split between Amazon and WB, where the MGM purchase might come into play, etc. etc.

But it's a great story to focus on and I'm damn intrigued at what could result. Will note that I do know one of the producers and I have faith in his ability to see it through, so hopefully everyone else is at that level.

The horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the Deep once more!

New episode! Basically, blood and death.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/28

New episode later this week -- meantime, have a read:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/24/soviet-union-tolkien-art-dissidents/

A new episode? Why yes! Eagles eagles eagles.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/29

well, yeah

look carefully at the background of the image!

Amazon says its (as yet untitled) Lord of the Rings series will make its debut on Sept 2, 2022: pic.twitter.com/AJb9YRBTYX

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 2, 2021

They've also shared this first image from the series: pic.twitter.com/9pyvZGiaMg

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 2, 2021

I thought this was good, fucken long but early on a good quarter of it is about Bakshi's history, once he gets into the technical shit it's golden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_rb_pitHk

Yeah one of my cohosts posted about this this morning. I was just thinking it would be good to have a 'making-of' book here but efforts like this help flesh it out for sure.

at first i thought that might be the scandalous x-rated tale of tom bombadil

would watch

As it happens, my other cohost did this the other day. (But in truth, the joke was mine.)

Dom Bombadil pic.twitter.com/tg7QN14kb7

— Jared Pechacek (@vandroidhelsing) August 16, 2021

"Who is Dom Bombadil, lady?" "He is." *pause* "He is zaddy."

would DEFINITELY watch