Isn't there a TV show in development ?
Film Lord of the Rings
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Yes Amazon is making it. Already ruined by trying to make it like game of thrones by adding tits and sex scenes into it. Trying to make it like GoT. Even though all the GoT fans probably came from LOTR in the first place since it was a fantasy setting. That kind of shite has no place in that world. Just like it doesn’t belong in Star Wars.
Where did you get this? I don't know where they can add tits and sex scenes in the stories from the Second age.
https://filmdaily.co/news/lotr-sex-scenes/
It tells me that they’ve already got the wrong idea about LOTR. So now I’m worried.
Yep. That’s really bad news if true, the tone of this is so important. This isn’t GOT and shouldn’t be made to be some kind of replica as LOTR is something completely different. Sadly, this is probably quite a predictable move.
Yeah, here’s the thread on it, though it’s been a while since anyone’s said anything. Think we’ve lost interest a fair bit.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-tv-show.433813/
Lord of the Wangs.
Starts happening around 38 mins:Isnt that 'one more step' scene the one where's there is a car in the background?
I thought they pooh-poohed that myth in one of the commentaries on the dvds? Or maybe it got edited out for the home ent. release?
Can't wait for that dwarf on elf sex scenes. Yummmmmmy. But seriously, why is this required?
Could be. I seem to remember seeing that clip but with the sun reflecting off a car windscreen
To attract the GoT crowd.
Think that may actually stop me watching it - as much as I have watched GOT this just seems the wrong direction.
It’s the worst thing they could have done. The GoT fans ARE the LOTR fans.
This is peak youtube, what an effort.Also hilarious that so many videos are taken down due to 10 second copyright violations of music but the whole first movie is fine.
The new Steelbooks for both this and Hobbit are absolutely gorgeous. I don't have many steelbooks but these are a class apart from the handful that I do have. Almost seems a shame to decant the discs (of which, the LOTR trilogy are two discs each for the 4k extended versions) from their cases.
I finally watched this (for the first time) over the weekend and last few days
Was the extended version so took about six days to complete.
Apart from the fact that Gandalf could summon eagles which might have helped in the journey
it was a really good bad vs evil story
Considering it was 20 years ago, it looks quality especially the right scenes.
I'm not sure what was added to the extended versions over the cinema ones, but it was quite good and I'm wondering what would actually be cut
Enjoyable trilogy for sure
Oh and gimli and Sam are the best
Was the extended version so took about six days to complete.
Apart from the fact that Gandalf could summon eagles which might have helped in the journey
it was a really good bad vs evil storyConsidering it was 20 years ago, it looks quality especially the right scenes.
I'm not sure what was added to the extended versions over the cinema ones, but it was quite good and I'm wondering what would actually be cut
Enjoyable trilogy for sure
Oh and gimli and Sam are the best
The first couple of years were amazing in the Fandom universe - took me away from here! Fan fiction abounded with serious Tolkienesque stuff and brilliant parodies. It was a constant round of both serious discussion and laughs.I finally watched this (for the first time) over the weekend and last few days
Was the extended version so took about six days to complete.
Apart from the fact that Gandalf could summon eagles which might have helped in the journey
Considering it was 20 years ago, it looks quality especially the right scenes.
I'm not sure what was added to the extended versions over the cinema ones, but it was quite good and I'm wondering what would actually be cut
Enjoyable trilogy for sure
Oh and gimli and Sam are the best
Oh, and the 'mir brothers are the best
I can remember reading ages ago that asking the eagles to carry them wouldn't have worked. The ring had to get there by stealth and the moment the eagles bore it towards Mount Doom the 9 would have destroyed them something like that anyway.I finally watched this (for the first time) over the weekend and last few days
Was the extended version so took about six days to complete.
Apart from the fact that Gandalf could summon eagles which might have helped in the journey
Considering it was 20 years ago, it looks quality especially the right scenes.
I'm not sure what was added to the extended versions over the cinema ones, but it was quite good and I'm wondering what would actually be cut
Enjoyable trilogy for sure
Oh and gimli and Sam are the best
Also the eagle leader owed Gandalf some kind of life debt and in the book he agreed to release him from it if he went to save the hobbits at the end they were not his to command.
I finally watched this (for the first time) over the weekend and last few days
Was the extended version so took about six days to complete.
Apart from the fact that Gandalf could summon eagles which might have helped in the journey
Considering it was 20 years ago, it looks quality especially the right scenes.
I'm not sure what was added to the extended versions over the cinema ones, but it was quite good and I'm wondering what would actually be cut
Enjoyable trilogy for sure
Oh and gimli and Sam are the best
Not exhaustive of the deleted scenes below, but when watching it its mad how many good scenes were cut:
Fellowship of the ring:
-Isildur's death right at the start
-Sam and Frodo watching the elves through the woods
-Haldir and Aragorn discussing whether to let the Fellowship into Lothlorien
-Galadriel's gifts to the fellowship (we only see her give Frodo his in the original)
Two Towers:
-Eomer Discovering Theoden's wounded son
-Boromir's victory at Osgiliath (mad they cut that out)
-Merry and Pippin drinking the water which makes them grow taller.
-the uruk hai retreating into Fangorn forest after their loss at helms deep
-Faramir confronting Gollum as he suggests taking them past cirith ungol
RoTK:
-Confrontation with Saruman (another crazy scene to have cut out)
-Gimli and Legolas' drinking competition
-Large chunks of Osgiliath
-Chunks of meeting the dead army
-Aragorn & co with dead army taking the pirate ship ( fun fact, most of the crew were in fact made up of the film crew, including Jackson who was the one shot by legolas)
- aragorn cutting off the mouth of sauron's head at the black gates
There are more scenes I have missed, but tbh I havent watched the original for many years. Once you go extended, you cant go back
Haha, I'm trying to watch the hobbit now as it's on Netflix. Hopefully it's good tooThe first couple of years were amazing in the Fandom universe - took me away from here! Fan fiction abounded with serious Tolkienesque stuff and brilliant parodies. It was a constant round of both serious discussion and laughs.
Oh, and the 'mir brothers are the best
Hmmm interesting. I normally roll my eyes at cliched last second saves, but given this was 20 years ago as a movie and based on a book, and is about good vs evil, it wasn't that bad
Wow thanks for that. Interesting to see some scenes cut from cinema which were really enjoyable to watchNot exhaustive of the deleted scenes below, but when watching it its mad how many good scenes were cut:
Fellowship of the ring:
-Isildur's death right at the start
-Sam and Frodo watching the elves through the woods
-Haldir and Aragorn discussing whether to let the Fellowship into Lothlorien
-Galadriel's gifts to the fellowship (we only see her give Frodo his in the original)
Two Towers:
-Eomer Discovering Theoden's wounded son
-Boromir's victory at Osgiliath (mad they cut that out)
-Merry and Pippin drinking the water which makes them grow taller.
-the uruk hai retreating into Fangorn forest after their loss at helms deep
-Faramir confronting Gollum as he suggests taking them past cirith ungol
RoTK:
-Confrontation with Saruman (another crazy scene to have cut out)
-Gimli and Legolas' drinking competition
-Large chunks of Osgiliath
-Chunks of meeting the dead army
-Aragorn & co with dead army taking the pirate ship ( fun fact, most of the crew were in fact made up of the film crew, including Jackson who was the one shot by legolas)
- aragorn cutting off the mouth of sauron's head at the black gates
There are more scenes I have missed, but tbh I havent watched the original for many years. Once you go extended, you cant go back
Imagine being a LOTR fan in those days before the internet was as it is now, fearing that they would make a mess of it, going into the cinema and being hit with that opening with Cate Blanchett's beautiful voice, doubts erased within the first 2 mins.
"The World is Changed.." Just an incredible start.
"The World is Changed.." Just an incredible start.
They were great times indeed. I remember I was balls deep, alongside the metal community, trying to get Blind Guardian to play the soundtrack of the movies. It was hard though, without proper social media.
Maybe we were a bit innocent, but we had to try, after they had released the masterpice "Nightfall in Middle Earth" back in 1998.
Cinema has been trying to match LOTR for the last 20 years, marvel especially, but has anything really come close?
Have read a lot of deconstruction stuff on various fantasy forums of the LOTR but I don't think it any conicidence that pretty much every great line of dialogue or great scene in that triology is lifted directly from the books. I am not expecting this TV series to replicate that, especially if you look at the disaster that was their Wheel of Time series.
Infinity war and endgame were the closest. But not even close to the quality. Cinema peaked with LOTR and at the even Harry Potter came out the same time and it was great.
This is a great channel.
“The world has changed.
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it. ”
Sadly, I think the knowledge to make the good stuff, has been lost. Music, movies, etc...
Let's hope this LOTR series shines some light on humanity, and it's not some soulless crap.
Someone tell me that the hobbit gets better. Watched around 2 hours and it's not very engaging esp compared to LOTR
Does it get better?
Does it get better?
It's poo
Th first one was the best. The 2nd half the Hobbit 2 was pretty good. 3rd one? It had good moments. Not the best trilogy it at least it's not like the SW sequels.
I think the LOTR trilogy is the best achievement in cinematic history, truly magnificent 10/10 stuff. I’ve never come close to feeling how I felt watching and even walking out of the cinema after Fellowship.
Now The Hobbit is my favourite book, was since I was about 10.
So with the knowledge of the above, trust me when I say The Hobbit movies are utter wank. They start well, the unexpected party is brilliant, then they get shitter, shitter and shitter as the films go on.
I think the LOTR trilogy is the best achievement in cinematic history, truly magnificent 10/10 stuff. I’ve never come close to feeling how I felt watching and even walking out of the cinema after Fellowship.
Now The Hobbit is my favourite book, was since I was about 10.
So with the knowledge of the above, trust me when I say The Hobbit movies are utter wank. They start well, the unexpected party is brilliant, then they get shitter, shitter and shitter as the films go on.
Fully agreed. Watched the trilogy again over Christmas and many scenes still hold up today.
Incredible
Agreed. I bought the extended version some years ago and watch it every now and again. At first, I would compare the film to the book but I stopped doing that and now enjoy the films for what they are. So many great scenes that it's hard to pick a favourite but I do enjoy the one where Eowyn brings Aragorn a bowl of hot stew and the one where the Mouth of Sauron gets his just desserts.
They spend every 10 minutes trying to do nostalgia throwbacks to LOTR. Though there are a few great scenes. Mostly down to Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis. But outside of them... Meh.
They really should have included this in the original release.
Because they'd have been shot out of the air, amongst many other reasons.
I assumed they'd feck it, yes.
Think the main one was the 9 feckin big fellbeasts flying about!