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Runcible Cat posted:Andy Serkis' reading of it was a great disappointment; dude is an amazing physical actor but he really doesn't get the rhythm of the prose at all. The Hobbit is written to be read out loud, but... he just can't. That reminds me that I really need to relisten to the BBC audio plays of TH and LotR (with Ian Holm as Frodo).
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Runcible Cat posted:Andy Serkis' reading of it was a great disappointment; dude is an amazing physical actor but he really doesn't get the rhythm of the prose at all. The Hobbit is written to be read out loud, but... he just can't. That's too bad, his screwtape letters is pretty good but maybe that one plays more to his silly voices strengths
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Zopotantor posted:That reminds me that I really need to relisten to the BBC audio plays of TH and LotR (with Ian Holm as Frodo). I tried to poke into them last year but wasn't digging the tone. Felt too goofy. I should give em a second shot.
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Zopotantor posted:That reminds me that I really need to relisten to the BBC audio plays of TH and LotR (with Ian Holm as Frodo). Ah, memories. I listened to these years ago on CD when I had a corneal abrasion and had to sit with my eyes closed in the dark for most of two days. They made a lovely time less lovely. And it made it really weird to see Ian Holm as Bilbo when the PJ movies came out.
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Runcible Cat posted:Andy Serkis' reading of it was a great disappointment; dude is an amazing physical actor but he really doesn't get the rhythm of the prose at all. The Hobbit is written to be read out loud, but... he just can't. Yeah, when he read the hobbit aloud online for charity last year I was distinctly underwhelmed by his delivery.
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Is it worth reading the children of hurin if I’ve already read the version in unfinished tales? Is there like, substantially more content there or is it just unfinished tales+published Silmarillion?
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Ogmius815 posted:Is it worth reading the children of hurin if I’ve already read the version in unfinished tales? Is there like, substantially more content there or is it just unfinished tales+published Silmarillion? It's just Unfinished Tales + bits and pieces from elsewhere in the legendarium to fill in the gaps at the end, published as a standalone book.
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It's always worth reading Children of Hurin imo. I've read it once a year for the past 13 years just about. 
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Why is children of hurin in the book titled unfinished tales when the story is finished? Checkmate Liberals.
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Ogmius815 posted:Is it worth reading the children of hurin if I’ve already read the version in unfinished tales? Is there like, substantially more content there or is it just unfinished tales+published Silmarillion? absolutely it's basically a proper novel written from the notes published earlier and if you're into audiobooks, it's read by christopher lee
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Flakey posted:It's always worth reading Children of Hurin imo. I've read it once a year for the past 13 years just about. I read it earlier this year. It's a pretty cool read.
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Yeah I re-read CoH again earlier this year, for the first time in probably 5-6 years. It's a great book, though it can be heavy going in the first couple of chapters since it throws a lot of names at you (both people and places). I can't speak to how different it is from the Unfinished Tales version, as I've never read that one.
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Is there like a chart that shows the differences between the different published versions of Hurin’s Kids?
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galagazombie posted:Hurin’s Kids Round Trip Ring King
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Jewellery Wars
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indiscriminately posted:King of the Ring I was so pumped when Bret The Hitman Hart put the Sharpshooter on Sauron to win the 1993 tournament The best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be
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https://www.vulture.com/2021/11/the-beatles-lord-of-the-rings-movie-that-could-have-been.htmlquote:While doing press for his Disney+ Beatles docuseries Get Back, LOTR impresario Peter Jackson explained to the BBC that the Beatles really wanted to make a Lord of the Rings movie, but were stymied by the series’ author J.R.R. Tolkien. “I’ve been scraping together little pieces of information. I’ve been interrogating Paul about it. Ringo doesn’t remember much,” he said. According to Jackson, the Beatles were introduced to Middle Earth by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who gave copies of The Lord of the Rings to every member of the band (except Ringo, for some reason). 3/4 of the Beatles read the book while studying meditation in India, then pursued the film rights via Apple film producer Denis O’Dell. 
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Dec 1, 2021 17:41
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Wow dodged a loving bullet there eh?
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Flakey posted:Wow dodged a loving bullet there eh? What? That would have ruled
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Tolkien's Middle-Earth: except Ringo, for some reason
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He was illiterate iirc.
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Yoko as Galadriel or bust
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*sighs* Maureen Cox dancin'!
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A bit off topic, but I'm running a GURPs game set in Middle Earth and have lost a player. If you like Lord of the Rings and Isekai stories, PM me.
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Okay I've decided to move on from my years long hatred of the movies for depicting the Pelennor Girls as a flat, featureless plain, and start a new chapter in my life of hating the movies for their depiction of the scene where Gandalf wakes up Theoden. What the gently caress?? This changes things in so many awful ways. Why was this a smart choice? Why do people like these movies?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Okay I've decided to move on from my years long hatred of the movies for depicting the Pelennor Girls as a flat, featureless plain, Hate that look, too. Wish they all could be California Girls, amiright?  
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Okay I've decided to move on from my years long hatred of the movies for depicting the Pelennor Girls as a flat, featureless plain, and start a new chapter in my life of hating the movies for their depiction of the scene where Gandalf wakes up Theoden. no idea. the movies are dumb
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The movies are cool. They're just very different from the books. The books are better in most ways, but the movies have different goals.
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The movies own, actually
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The books own The movies own Deal with it.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Okay I've decided to move on from my years long hatred of the movies for depicting the Pelennor Girls as a flat, featureless plain, and start a new chapter in my life of hating the movies for their depiction of the scene where Gandalf wakes up Theoden. Don't ask me, I only like the music. And the actors were good with what they were given. Oh what I wouldn't give for Christopher Lee to have played Saruman with half the depth he had in the books... Still my fave Tolkien villain.
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galagazombie posted:The books own This person gets it.
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galagazombie posted:The books own
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NikkolasKing posted:Don't ask me, I only like the music. And the actors were good with what they were given. Oh what I wouldn't give for Christopher Lee to have played Saruman with half the depth he had in the books... Still my fave Tolkien villain. Do those movies ever stop playing the damned music? I swear they lean on their soundtrack even harder than Star Wars. I'm not sure there's more than like 5 minutes of film where there isn't music playing.
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Of all the complaints I've heard about the movies, this is the first time I've heard that one.
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Really? The over-the-top heroic music bursts ruin a lot of scenes for me.
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It’s widely considered one of the best movie scores lamo
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Star Wars needs that big Korngoldy score blaring away or everything it tried to do would pretty much fall flat. That guy who does the overdub youtube videos of Star Wars characters saying/singing weird poo poo did a version of the throne room scene from the end of A New Hope without music. It’s taking the piss obviously but it’s also very instructive of the way Williams’ score props up the movies. And the way they wrote the LOTR movies, they were right to do the same thing.
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