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What He Saw On The Star Wars Episode VII Set
coolhund says...How JJA got pushed so high is just beyond me. Just let him ruin every awesome franchise ever...
Whats next? Alien? How about Lord of the Rings!
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Teaser Trailer
ChaosEngineI was originally on board with the idea of expanding the Hobbit to fill in the back story of Lord of the Rings. I always thought it was odd that Tolkien just threw in this world shatteringly important event that happens off page.
But so far the two movies have been disappointing. Too long and too many improbable chase scenes. The whole pointless "dwarves vs Smaug" fight scene was just awful.
Holmes and Watson were decent enough in their scenes, but yeah, there was just way too much filler.
Honestly, you really don't. I tolerated the first one but the second one put me off the whole trilogy completely. It's just such a bloated attempt at a cash-grab by making three movies instead of the one they should have done it in. Terrible acting and terrible story-telling. The action is decent but the CG is kinda in-your-face and pulls you out with lots of "that's totally green-screened" moments.
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Game of Thrones VS Lord of the Rings
lucky760Mom did a great job. All their acting was great actually.
Excellent choreography and special effects and gore. They really went all out.
*quality
I'd always vote Game of Thrones over Lord of the Rings.
The Origins of Dragons in Middle Earth
articianAha, Ainur, thank you! I knew I was probably thinking of the wrong term.
Either way, didn't know there was "raging controversy". I did however get to work on Lord of the Rings Online for 3 years, where I had daily access to one of the best lore-historians in the US( Chris Pierson, who sat next to me).
Pretty sure he said something along the lines of "One of the last in Middle earth that we know of", so there was definitely an open-ended element to the topic
It's probably a really good idea to open up the endlessly raging Bombadil controversy. Well so what, Tolkienian cosmology is fascinating. To some extent he's a deliberate enigma. Personally I favour the idea, if he's explicable at all, that he's the spirit of Arda itself or at least the foremost of a number of more provincial spirits. There are competing theories, but it's not really possible that he's a Maia.
Certainly there were any number of Maiar still knocking around at the time of the Fellowship: Gandalf, Saruman, et al; Sauron; Durin's Bane; Gwaihir; arguably Shelob (half-Maia at best); and depending on how widely you want to define 'in Middle Earth', Arien & Tilion (the bearers of the sun & moon), presumably Osse & Uinen, etc.
Bombadil calls himself, and the elves agree, 'eldest', and he claims to have been around before Melkor, who was definitively the first of the Ainur to descend into the circles of the world. He's unaffected by, and not really interested in, the Ring, unlike the Maiar who come into contact with it in the course of the story.
Ilúvatar set the Secret Fire, which gives sentient creatures their fëar or souls, burning at the heart of the world. I can't see an origin for Tom that doesn't derive directly from that, given that at the point he appears in the chronology there's very little else in existence.
I don't know what all this makes Goldberry.
5 'Game of Thrones' Plotlines Ripped Right Out of History
LooiXIV says...They should do one on how the Lord of the Rings Universe is basically the Bible!
Martin Freeman discribes his biggest challenge as an actor
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Disney's Maleficent - "Dream" Trailer
A10anisTerrific, just what we need, another re-hash of an old story, complete with CGI borrowed from Lord of the rings etc. I understand the insatiable nature of the beast that is "entertainment," but it seems the beast is dying at the feet of repetition, banality and money. In the producers defence, original concepts are becoming increasingly rare.
Honest Trailers - Friday
MordhausIt's kind of like a reverse Lord of the Rings.
LOTR Forced Perspective Moving Camera
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Official Main Trailer
FlowersInHisHairThe kind of sarcastic, awkward "The Office"-style humour they introduced into the first Hobbit movie was a real turn-off for me, as was the sloppy, rushed-looking CGI (there's a scene at Rivendell where they didn't even bother replacing the scale doubles' faces with the actors' faces) and the odd habit of having the characters fall hundreds of feet onto solid rock without breaking any bones (this happens at least three times in An Unexpected Journey).
The Hobbit is a children's book, and doesn't meet the tone of its sequel very well, even after Tolkien's revised edition. It is a lighter book than the Lord of the Rings, in every sense, and the first film showed that it really can't bear the weight of either the padding PJ has added to the story, nor the efforts to bring a more Rings-style feeling of epic seriousness to what is a small, selfish story about some dwarves looking for gold. The epic/serious tone constantly conflicts with the childish slapstick humour, meaning that neither really work.
It would have been much better as a single 2.5-hour film. I dread to think how much wandering about, awkward humour, diversions from the story, too-weighty extracts from the LOTR appendices and (oh goody) dull Elven love story padding is to come in the next 6 hours of this trilogy.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Official Main Trailer
articianThis is to the Lord of the Rings films, what the StarWars prequels were to the original Star Wars films.
(a 'hit' that starts with an 's')
Top Ten Summer Box Office Bombs 2013
FlowersInHisHairI find it astonishing that, without adjusting for inflation, The Lone Ranger had as big a budget as the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.