LORD OF THE RINGS poll (film version)

is it that he made them and gave them to the "MEN" and then he was able to control them as a result with the one ring? that's how I remember it but could be wrong.

x-post yeah

all of these films are incredible. i downloaded the first one on vcd (!) from some ftp site. it was 4 discs and i used to fall asleep with the first disk playing in the background pretty much every night during 2002. so that.

including the scouring of the shire would have been awful.

he created them to bind the leaders of men, dwarfs & elves to him using the secret and powerful 'one ring'? quick recollection.

i still remember sitting in the theater when it suddenly hit me, 'wow, they're really gonna do this RIGHT.'

^^^this. it is very very rare for me to get that rush from any film adaptation.

(particularly one I had always fantasized about as a young'un)

i figured that was the case, just needed to confirm!

Ha yes -- when Sauron's helmet crashed to the ground in the first prologue was when I was fully sold. What a start.

coming on the heels of the star wars prequel it looked even better. and then it kinda made the subsequent matrix flicks look even worse in comparison.

as far as fanboy fodder went

I hate to say it but this thread is missing a little bit of Morbz' haterade

i could make up a batch, tbh

;_;

i was going to say "i don't think morbs has seen these films" but then i remembered it never stopped him before.

Ha yes -- when Sauron's helmet crashed to the ground in the first prologue was when I was fully sold

i mean, this feeling lasted all the way up until the council of elrond, fully halfway through the first of three movies! what an achievement!

Well, I don't give a shit about the mythology, but as far as these kinds of films go they're the best of their kind.

only cos willow doesn't have any sequels, tbh

i keep thinking about the bullet dodged w/r/t the stuart townsend as aragorn casting.

well we still got agent johnson as elrond, to be fair.

yeah Viggo's some perfect casting, they lucked out with him. Actually they lucked out with most of the casting really, I can't recall anyone who's certifiably bad. John Rhys Davies maybe.

blanchett!

i don't think there's a single bad performance in the trilogy. gimli could have been played as more than what he mostly was (comic relief) but considering everything he was fine.

aragorn in the rankin/bass 'return of the king'

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/ROTKTVAragorn.jpg

Just imagine if John Rhys Meyers instead of John Rhys-Davies had played Gimli.

blanchett!

no way she's perfect - her freakout at the magic mirror scene is awesome

Denethor kind of sucked in the third movie, he should've been more like how he is in the book

her freakout at the magic mirror scene is awesome

i defend to the death your right to say it, etc etc but this was cringeworthy overacting.

i think the cringey shit was more special effects-based.

(with that specific scene)

Denethor kind of sucked in the third movie, he should've been more like how he is in the book

Showing him already collapsed rather than on the verge of it was a telescoping for sure. (There's the bit in the extra footage of Two Towers that's as close as we'll get to that.) But John Noble did pretty well with the part as written, and the whole dismissal of Faramir/obsessive eating/"Can you sing, master Hobbit?" part is on point, as was that last defiant sneer and flinging of the torch onto the pyre. All of which was sadly undermined by the 'I can flyyyyyyyyy!' bit, admittedly.

i liked sean bean basically reprising his role from ronin

i felt there was more of his trevlyan from goldeneye in it, tbh. but he was pretty good, surprisingly.

i dunno, the whole "big man on campus in over his head" thing is straight outta ronin imo

along with the couple of scenes where he's sonned by the elder, cooler compatriot

it's straight outta sean bean in hollywood, imo

i just ambushed you with a cup of mead

The first one because it has the least egregious use of Liv Tyler and her non-acting pout.

I spent a weekend a few months ago watching the extended versions of all these, back to back, and I want to do it again. These are SO GOOD.

I think they threw in Liv Tyler to give moviegoers an opportunity for safe bathroom breaks.

I've seen Fellowship and The Two Towers a good amount and prefer Two Towers. I only saw Return of the King once...I need to see it again soon. I'm totally in the mood for a Lord of the Rings-a-thon right now!

i liked the third one the best

i think the first is the best, the riders hunting the hobbits thru the shire and its outskirts is terrifying, and also the fucking Balrog!

the second has the awesome battle but i got tired of watching the rohan dudes, looked like smelly heavy metal guys and the acting of the king was kinda lame

first one = best
second = very good
third one = those fucking pirates gahhh

No they are all garbage option?

Second is probably the least boring though.

but which one is the best

in the spirit of morbs, but without the artistry i'm afraid
xpost

xp The one I saw in Paris Christmas Eve where the entire audience was either sleeping or laughing.

like they were all having funny dreams

christmas in paris? what are you, unamerican?

i broke my vegetarianhood on christmas in paris

I don't really have much invested in LOTR and haven't seen any of these more than once, but the second was the only one I enjoyed watching.

"like they were all having funny dreams"

Possibly they were dreaming about seeing a good movie.

and an anime sensibility is something i overlooked tbh

the celebration after the crowning looks *awful*

The Lord of the Gripes

The army of the dead flowing over Minas Tirith looks way too much like a Listerine ad.

My comparison for years, as redone in the podcast, was Scrubbing Bubbles.

https://x.com/JessZafarris/status/1741700613413515476

Wait lemme try that again

Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, who announced her abdication on TV just hours ago, is also known for having done these illustrations for Danish '70s editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. pic.twitter.com/1F2vcwQuB1

— Jess Zafarris 📚 (@JessZafarris) January 1, 2024

OMG those are sick as hell

They're fantastic, thanks for sharing.

If you Google you can find some other ones

thought of a new line for the two towers posters

a little from gollum a, a little from gollum b

That's pretty awesome - also imagine if you're another fan indulging in the Tolkien fantasy of being Aragorn, except you're actually royalty.

a little from gollum a, a little from gollum b

We loves it

Seriously good one

Lol yes I lolled

Top tier, can we move this thread to 77 so it doesn't get plagiarised and reposted to reddit for 9.7 billion upvotes by some hack lurker

That puts it out of reach for some of us.

If you Google you can find some other ones

I have the full Folio Tolkien set and yep, her illustrations are pretty great.

I think its interesting that Tolkien was this language fanatic yet somehow out of that came this rich treasury of advanture tales. Make me wonder what CHomsky has in him waiting to become high fantasy -

Manufacturing Ents

Lectures on Government and Binding, co- author Sauron

Rings as a System of Power